Ghost of Christmas Present

A Christmas Carol Analysis I have loved A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens since I was little so I was very excited to see how Michael Daehn brought this iconic story to life. In his version, I believe that Daehn wanted to convey the heart of this story. To share the message of hope and selflessness and redemption and perhaps to inspire and enlighten the audience. By choosing to use a version of this play that incorporates music he not only brought this story to life but brought the audience…

Halloween versus Christmas in the United States Holidays in the United States have been adapted from cultures all over the world. Each one is a unique from its original form in other countries. For example; in other countries a fox, chicken, or goose delivers eggs on Easter which is different from Americas’ version of “The Easter Bunny”. However there are two holidays that while they seem very different, they share a lot of the same traditions. These are Halloween and Christmas. The history…

A Steampunk Christmas Carol was exhibited on Sunday December 6th, by Pendulum Space. It was a professional show that added a new twist on the classic “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. The play incorporated the storyline of the classic “Christmas Carol” with a steampunk twist that referenced Nikola Tesla and portrayed Scrooge as a counting house mogul who also deals in mechanical bits and pieces. The story also incorporates elements of the classic “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley in one of…

In the Present, Scrooge listens as Mrs. Cratchit abruptly denounces him after her husband denominated him Founder of the Feast. She indicates that Scrooge is, “an odius, stingy, hard, unfeeling man” (53). Later in the Present, the spirit warns Scrooge to beware of Ignorance and Want, vices symbolized by a boy and girl, whose appearances were wretched and extremely depressing. When Scrooge eagerly alluded…

The “Christmas Carol” is very-well known around the world. Both the movie and book is loved by most people, but they have many differences. All families with children usually watch it, or read it around the christmas season. Yes, some people think it’s dumb, but it shows a lot of potential to what Christmas is truely about.It’s not about spending money, or who has the most Christmas lights and decorations up, it’s about a special time of year when god had showed his great love for us. It’s a…

The Influence on The Christmas Carol on How the Grinch Stole Christmas A strong story can become many others. The traditional work of A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens is based in the 1800’s, in a town of England. The main Character Ebenezer Scrooge is an old miser who hates the Christmas celebration in the town. Scrooge is haunted by 3 ghosts, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The three ghosts haunt Scrooge because…

The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens suggests that true redemption is seized when you accept future consequences of your past mistakes. This novel follows an avaricious man named Ebenezer Scrooge and his route to redemption. Charles Dickens used a lot of illustrations to describe many things surrounding Scrooge. He incorporated images like family, joy and parts of the Christian religion. As you will read in my essay, Scrooges journey to redemption was a rather bumpy than smooth; it was one…

Christmas is a Christian celebration of the birth of Christ, though it also encompasses Greek, Roman and pagan traditions of giving gifts and feasting around the Winter Solstice. It is a time when families and friends come together to share food and exchange gifts (web). In How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the main characters, the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge, are similar to each other in many ways such as their awful personality. The Grinch is…

More importantly, we are shown how Scrooge’s love of money has stripped him of his love for his family and his appreciation for the world. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the theme of greed is explored. The first time we are exposed to 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…

condition. The rich refused to accept any responsibility to help the poor, or even be kind to them, seeing them as “another race of creatures bound on other journeys”. Dickens challenged this outlook, and was disgusted by it, so he wrote the novella A Christmas Carol with the intent to change people’s views of the poor and society’s responsibility to them. Scrooge, who represents the richer class, is introduced as the personification of winter, after which Dickens uses Fezziwig who is the…