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    better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. All the ghosts are important in the development of Scrooge, but none more important than The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He shows Scrooge of the consequences , and makes Scrooge acknowledge the alteration of his behavior. Although The Ghost…

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    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…

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    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 ways unless he will soon die. One actor in the play that caught my attention was Andrew Dawood. The role he played was clearly perfect for him! Andrew portrayed the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. He hunched his back to make it seem like he was older than…

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    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 of the play he becomes a kind person who understands the meaning of Christmas. To begin with, Scrooge is a mean person who has no love in his heart. In the exposition of the play Scrooge is…

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    This essay is about Uncle Scrooge, and how his personality changed throughout the book, movie, and play. Uncle Scrooge was a biusness man. All he thought about was how to make more money. He had a partner his name was Jacob Marley. He died as a greedy, and mean old man that only cared about money. Ebenezer Scrooge soon caught on with this trait. In the beginning of the story Scrooge is a horrible man. All he wanted was money and nothing to do with anybody else or Christmas. He was greedy,…

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    Scrooge almost always hated Christmas and because of 4 certain visitors he had a change of heart. He was given a chance of being happy at Christmas and took the chance and in the end he had the best Christmas. The ghosts gave him a chance to see what he had done to the people he loved and gave him a chance at having a lovely time and a future with people he loves. The first ghost that came was marley who was then followed, but the Spirit of Christmas Past and then the Present then the Future and…

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    A Christmas Carole Scrooge is transforming from a bad to a good person in the novel A Christmas Carole. There are three spirits that take him to the past, present, and the future. The first spirits make him more giving, compassionate, and a thankful person. The second spirit makes him a caring, happy, and regretful man. The last spirit turns him even more of a thankful and caring person. Scrooge will slowly change as the spirits take him to places. Scrooge became more of a giving,…

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    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…

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    good and bad, you can change from a good person to a bad person or from a bad person to a good person. In “Scrooge and Marley; A Christmas Carol” Scrooge is shown scenes from the past, present, future that change him for the better. Scrooge’s character transformation was becoming giving, apologetic, and generous. First, as a result of what The Ghost of Christmas Past revealed to Scrooge, Scrooge became giving. The ghost showed him a scene when he was a little poor boy, and how people would…

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    Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella, A Christmas Carol, was written to spread awareness of the everlasting Christmas Spirit throughout the year. Ebenezer Scrooge, a fictional character, brought to life/fabricated as he represents the social hierarchy troubles that were going on in Victorian England. Scrooge lives his life as a less fortunate pauper and holds money as his golden idol; however, by letting avarice consume him, it almost lead to his ultimate downfall. Fortunately, four specters pay…

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