Ebenezer Scrooge

intended audience. In A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is visited by a spirit and three ghosts. The spirit symbolizes what Scrooge may become, while the ghosts symbolize Scrooge’s past, present, and future. All of these supernatural beings help Scrooge to realize he must change his hard heart. On the night of Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge and Marley owned a firm together before the death…

In the beginning of the novel, the reader views’ Scrooge as a very hateful cold person, who does not like Christmas because it is a time of the year people want handouts for the needy. Being the heartless wrench that he is he tells two gentlemen who want money for the needy “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population” (Dickens 16). This quote will later come back to haunt Scrooge when he is introduced to Tiny Tim by the second spirit. Another…

out of the Muppet, the Novella, the play, and the Patrick Stewart versions because in the Patrick Stewart version, Ebenezer Scrooge, a heartless man of business who thrives of the despair of others, was more convincing than in the Muppet version, that he really disliked Christmas. The Patrick Stewart version was also more dramatic than the rest of the versions. For example, Scrooge offers no pity towards the poor, and his heartless tirade…

greed is when Ebenezer refuses to give his long-term clerk, Bob Cratchit the Christmas Day off to spend with his family, specifically his disabled son Tiny Tim. He proves himself to be a penny-pincher as he pays his clerk a very insubstantial wage and insists that Bob is trying to rob him of his money by requesting the one day off of the year. Along with this, despite noticing how numbingly cold it is in his office, Ebenezer Scrooge does not grant his employee the gift of warmth. Scrooge is…

there were multiple hidden, as well as obvious themes presented to the reader. One can have nothing and have it all or one can have it all yet have nothing was a theme Charles Dickens showcased within his book through multiple characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim. For example, on page 100-101 Bob Cratchit talks about how much he loves Tiny Tim and his positive outlook on life and on page 105 Tiny Tim says, “God bless us every one!” These quotes and pieces of evidence show us that you…

word; contentment. Contentment is a concept that can be witnessed in all lives, potentially experienced by someone who appreciates every small detail or one who has everything but always wishes for more. The latter can be seen in the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the play A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The play of this title as well as the movie A Diva’s Christmas Carol by Richard Schenkman both show how being content…

extremely difficult jewel to find if you don’t look hard enough in a cave of complications in life. In Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, faces grueling memories and future experiences that will help determine if he, a crotchety, unkind man, will attain true ecstasy or not. Before the help of spirits, Scrooge thought the only possible way to reach his euphoria was all the wealth and riches he could accumulate over the years.…

To begin with, Scrooge witnesses the effects of his actions from being a greedy miser and learns the importance of helping others by making charitable donations to help the poor. To illustrate, Scrooge refuses to donate any money to a charity whose goal was to help those in poverty. He believed that one should work for their money and that those who needed…

The effect is what happens afterwards because of this. It is like the end result. For example, in the play, ‘A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley’, Ebenezer Scrooge was a very sad man. When he went back into the past, he saw himself enjoying things and being very joyful. So he realized that he could be that happy again and tried his hardest to be, and it worked. Scrooge was now a happy man and loved the new him and his family. Also, another example of cause and effect in Scrooge’s life, was…

me by fear to never drink and drive. Seeing Tiny Tim’s empty crutch, seeing a gravestone with his name, and seeing people sell his things motivated Scrooge to change. Charles Dickens’ timeless story, A Christmas Carol, has been adapted into countless stories, plays and movies. In Israel Horovitz’s A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, we see Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformative moments highlighted and placed…