Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol Essay

In the book A Christmas Carol, the characters of the story symbolize the many realisms of the British Industrial Revolution henceforth making the story an allegory. For example, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge’s clerk, incarnates the poor. He was a hardworking man being the epitome of the hardworking and uncomplaining working class. Tiny Tim, Bob’s son, symbolized hope. However, Ebenezer Scrooge is the quintessence of all things evil of the Industrial Revolution as he embodied the “ignorance owners and managers of big companies had towards their employees’ well-being” and how those owners adjudicated the poor, instead of assisting them, since they were “big time” and made lots of capital (Johnson). We begin to become aware of Scrooge’s ignorant attitude in A Christmas Carol when Dickens asserts in Stave 1, “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he; no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty” (pg.12). Dickens’ alluded to this, in his book,…

“We can change our future by merely changing our attitude to the positive. Simple yet powerful!” - Zeenat Merchant Syal. In Frederick Gaines’ drama, A Christmas Carol, adapted from Charles Dickens’ novel Scrooge learns that if he does not have a change in heart he will die in the near future. Ebenezer Scrooge changes from the exposition of the play to the denouement. Ebenezer Scrooge is mean and heartless in the exposition; by the middle of the play Scrooge becomes scared, and by the denouement…

On December 11, 2015, I attended the Granite Hills Acting Workshop production of the play “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. The play was directed by the phenomenal Sherri Allen, and was performed in The Little Theater at Granite hills High School. The play “A Christmas Carol” is about a tight-fisted old man named Ebenezer Scrooge who is cruel to those around him. Especially to his clerk, Bob Cratchit. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is haunted by several ghosts that tell him he must change his…

Who was Ebenezer Scrooge? He was the main character of “The Christmas Carol”. Scrooge takes the readers through his couple of days of him being haunted by ex-business partner Jacob Marley. Jacob is trying to help Scrooge to be nice, so he won’t end up tied in chains in the afterlife like him. Ebenezer Scrooge was an old cold-hearted man. He didn’t like anything and loved to save his money even though he is rich. His nose is always bloodshot red. That is because he doesn’t want to spend the…

Unfortunately, in the play, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, an inhumane miser, was unable to realize that if he wanted to change, it was completely up to him. Luckily by the end of the play and the help of some great people and spirits, Scrooge is slowly…

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens shows the theme that anyone can become a better person if they look upon their past. The reader learns that even someone like Scrooge can become a great man. At the beginning of the story, Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy, rude man. On pages 17 and 18 he refuses to donate any of his money (Which he has plenty of) to the poor. On page 20 a caroller comes to his door and Scrooge makes them run away. On page 15 he refuses his own nephew’s Christmas meal invitation.…

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is the story of the events that occured in the life of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is a mean spirited old man who only cares about himself, and his money He has little concern about any of his surrounding or the people in his life. In the story Scrooge is visited three unlikely guests, they are the ghosts of Christmas past, present and the yet to come or the future. As a result of these visits Scrooge turns his life around and finds the true meaning of…

A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is a story about Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist, who learns to change his attitude towards life. First off, Ebenezer Scrooge’s main conflict is that he has to learn how to become a better person, which makes the type of conflict person vs self. In the beginning of the story, he is described as being a harsh fellow, “No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. . .…

The ghost of Christmas future was remarkably quiet it was exceedingly good at its job. The way that The ghost of Christmas future made Scrooge think about the way he was so isolated was by showing him what people will think about him in the future. Scrooge then saw that p To begin with, anyone in the world can change, all they need is the will to change. Now in the novel “A Christmas carol” written by Charles Dickens is a little more complicated than that. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge…

The movie, A Muppets Christmas Carol is based on Charles Dickens Christmas Carol novel. The theme of the story is how you're supposed to be nice don't be mean or greedy and just be in the moment. Your life experiences make you who you, but change is possible. Ebenezer Scrooge is a good example. Ebenezer Scrooge was a very mean and greedy person, but when he sees the ghost of Christmas past he sees his old self and he sees that he used to be really happy with his life. But then he got a…