Ghost of Christmas Past

Dickens, A Christmas Carol where charity beggars were asking scrooge if he would like to give money to charity and scrooge responded with the quote. Scrooge who is the main character works at a counting house and he is an older man. Scrooge has a clerk named Bob Cratchit who is a poor family man. Scrooge gets visited by three different ghosts or spirits during the story. The three spirits include the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas future,…

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas” (Calvin Coolidge). To some people, Christmas Spirit means to be jolly, giving, and praising, but to the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Christmas Spirit is split into three forms: Past, Present, and Future. These spirits come to show Scrooge what his life was like, is like, and will be like without…

lights sitting by the fireplace listening to the the ghost story on christmas. Ghost stories weren't popular until the Christmas Carol came out and now the are told everywhere and at anytime but the Christmas Carol was the most popular ghost story in the Victorian Era. Ghost where someone's spirit coming back to haunt someone/something that they had a strong emotional connection to. In the Victorian era everything they learned about ghost was usually taught in churches. h In the Victorian…

really care about a plethora of things like Christmas because he does not get the point of Christmas. On page one, the author describes how he was exceedingly rude to a boy who shows up asking for any donations for the poor, but Scrooge tells him to leave, and argues that anyone who is poor can either go to jail, or go to the workhouse. All because he doesn’t believe in the poor. Marley, Scrooge’s dead partner, comes in and reveals a couple things, “‘Ghosts of terrible people have to endlessly…

Dickens wrote many Christmas themed short stories and one in specific was A Christmas Carol. In A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserable, stingy old man especially around the holidays, he owns a business and has a clerk named Bob Cratchit who during the winters spends his time in the office freezing because Mr. Scrooge’s stingy trait causes him not to want to pay for heating coals. One-night Scrooge’s nephew Fred makes a visit to invite Ebenezer to the annual family Christmas Eve party.…

partner in life, died on Christmas, making Scrooge dislike Christmas for the rest of his life, until an event that occurred to affect him in such a way, to make Scrooge a joyful person. This event that changed his life was when the ghost of Christmas future took Scrooge to a cemetery, where Scrooge saw his grave, realising what his future will be if he keeps this grudge/hatred for Christmastime. Scrooge learns for the ghost, and realises that he has to change his view on Christmas or he’ll die,…

that Scrooge is changing in Stave Three of A Christmas Carol. First there is the timidness when the Ghost of Christmas Present comes and is in the room in Scrooge's house. The first ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge greeted in a foul manner and refusing to go with her. This time the author uses words such as timidly and reverently to describe Scrooge’s manner of walking and talking to the ghost. This shows that Scrooge’s attitude toward the ghosts has changed and is accepting his duty…

(Dickens 14) The ghosts in Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol were portrayed creatively and the director of one of the many film interpretations recreated the ghosts almost exactly like Dickens. Three of the ghosts in the film seemed to the most tantamount to the ghosts interpreted in the movies. They were: the ghost of Jacob Marley, the ghost of Christmas past, and the ghost of Christmases yet to come. David Jones has an accurate depiction of Jacob Marley, the first ghost that is shown…

especially Christmas, accordingly the text states that people try to sing Christmas carols, but he made them leave. Two gentlemen from a local charity visited Scrooge at his office asking him for a donation to help the poor and he responded to their request with these words, “Aren’t there prisons and union workhouses they can just live in?” Then, his dead business partner Marley, who is now a ghost shows up. Putting…

Christmas spirit, are you born with it, is it something you develop, or is it something you have to learn based on your own experiences? There is a large variety of people with or without Christmas spirit in Patrick Barlow’s version of “A Christmas Carol.” This particular production of a Christmas Carol was performed at the Orpheum theater by the Magic Valley Repertory Theatre in december. The specific dates being December 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th. I attended on the 18th. This play, aimed…