Jacob Marley

There are many pieces of evidence 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…

I'm going to be tell you some things in the Christmas CaroI. The first thing that I'm going to tell you is how this old, overplayed story could have any deeper meaning for society and people today. Then, I'm going to use examples of the settings and society now. Then I'm going to make a statement about our culture that matches with the reality of Scrooge's self and his society. That is what I'm going to talk about in the Christmas Carol. There are many ways how this story could have a…

Music is a symbol in both “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, and in “The Old Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell. Music becomes a way to showcase that there is a problem within the households of the characters, Ebenezer Scrooge, from “A Christmas Carol,” and Miss Furnivall from “The Old Nurse’s Story”. In both stories the music played, centres on families and is shared through supernatural means. This later highlights the idea that both characters have behaved wrongly towards their families…

Marley and Scrooge - the firm, known as Scrooge and Marley - although the sign hasn't changed since Marley’s death, the one thing that had worsened is the personality of Scrooge, the tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! On page two, I noticed the author states that Scrooge has an insufficient fire for keeping himself warm, but the clerk’s fire (Bob Cratchit) was so indubitably small that it looked like one coal, which…

How can two films both be considered classic holiday movies, yet be so different? Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life shows the life of George Bailey and his impact on the people around him. In contrast, George Seaton’s Miracle on 34th Street is a story about one man who believes he is the real Santa Claus. Both films exemplify all of the qualities of a classic film. However, these films focus on different ideas about life as well as life’s meaning. Viewers of both of these films will…

Introduction Set in the 1840s on Christmas Eve, A Christmas Carol chronicles the personal transformation of the protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge after going through both love and festivity alongside grief and fear. The ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ reminded Scrooge of a sense of festivity by revisiting his old headmaster Fezziwig; The ghost of Christmas Yet to come transformed Scrooge by exposing him to scenes where he sees his fiancée Belle and his own grave; The change of attitude is also evident in…

Do you ever feel like you're living the same day over and over again? Phil Connors (Bill Murray) can relate with the 1993 film “Groundhog Day”. This film written by Harold Ramis is a romantic comedy that keeps the audience guessing, but also makes them reflect on themselves. Phil is a stuck up guy, that only worries about his own problems and doesn’t think about how he is affecting other people’s lives. Phil, a weatherman, is sent on assignment to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities in…

A Christmas Carol is a over 100 year old book yet people still find joy in reading it. Scrooge changed a lot between the beginning and the end of the christmas carol. The real change was the ghost of christmas past showed him his younger self sitting at his school all alone. In the beginning of the novella scrooge sees himself as a neglected lonely young boy. Seeing how miserable he was makes him start thinking about his own actions and how they affect others. “ ‘The school is not quite…

In Charles Dickens’, A christmas Carol I speculate all three spirits assisted Scrooge from his callous behaviour, and shifted his life around to make him a content man. Scrooge learns the same lesson from all three spirit (That kindness is the key to happiness) however, each spirit tells scrooge happiness in different ways. In the beginning of the novella, Scrooge is portrayed as a cold-hearted miser who abhors anything joyful , but once visited by the spirits scrooge is depicted as a…

The darkness of dawn, the time which was said to be when the final ghost, the ghost of Christmas yet to come, was to appear. The clock struck twelve and the hooded phantom hovered towards Scrooge, ready to show him the shadows of the future. If you’ve read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, you would know that Scrooge at this point, while engulfed in fear, is willing to follow the final ghost and have him lead on to view the Christmas yet to come. With that said, while the ghost of Christmas yet…