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    Charles Dickens, is about how one night changed the life of Ebenezer Scrooge. The story begins in December, 1843 in London, England, when Scrooge is a middle-aged gentleman, who is a bad man at the start and becomes a good man by the end. In the beginning story Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy man and a mean person who does not care to if, what he does with his money hurts other people. In between the middle and the end of the story Scrooge became a caring and charitable person who was happy to…

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    even when your situation is hard. There are many differences and similarities between the play and the movie of The Christmas Carol. In the play, Mr. Scrooge, a greedy old man, is visited by three ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. The ghosts warn Scrooge that if he continues to be as greedy as he is currently, Scrooge will be a ghost and have to walk the Earth with chains that he created because of his selfishness…

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    by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how much his greed can…

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    He was a "tight-fisted" man who held money as close to his heart as Scrooge does. When Marley appears to Scrooge, Dickens describes the chain which Marley has "clasped around his middle". It is a chain made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel". These symbolise Marley's selfish, covetous and obsessive personality. It is a representation of a message that Scrooge will only receive through the things he values most; money and…

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    life of Ebenezer Scrooge as a negative, penny-pinching and distasteful man in London. No one had ever wished to work as an employee in his office after his best business partner Jacob Marley died except Bob Cratchit. Nothing in the world would scare Scrooge if it wasn’t about the gold coins. The man, who used to be a heartless person, had changed in just a few nights before Christmas Eve coming. At this point, we must be thankful to three Christmas Ghosts which demonstrated Scrooge life’s faults…

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    Ebenezer Scrooge does not understand or know what the true meaning of business is. He thinks that business is only about money. In a Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens shows that one’s business in life is changing the way Scrooge takes care of others, through the experiences of the three ghosts. While the ghosts help Scrooge through his unbelievable life, Ebenezer Scrooge becomes merrier from being mean. Scrooge’s definition of a man’s “business” in Stave 1 and its impact on Scrooge was money.…

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    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, and have been uncompassionate. While both characters later repent for their behavior, only Scrooge is able to correct his mistakes. Music is shown to be a key…

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    and A Christmas Carol The Movie. Scrooge Conversation starts to kick into motion when he is visited by the goat of Christmas past who, by his name shows Scrooge…

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    Christmas Carol," Mr. Scrooge was visited by different ghosts from the past, present, and future to help him realize that he is not who he should be. When he is invited to see his grave stone the Scrooge implores, "Men's course will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the course be departed from, the end's will change. Say it is thus with what you show me." What do you think he meant when he said this? The first ghost to meet the Scrooge during the night…

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    Ebenezer Scrooge) is telling us about him and Scrooge. Then we see Scrooge and other men in his office. When Scrooge goes home and wakes up at one o’clock, he is visited by the ghost of christmas past to show him his past. While visiting the past, Scrooge remembers his younger sister and how he loved her. They then move to where he was apprenticed by his old master Fezziwig. Scrooge and past go to when he fell in love but didn't get married. The ghost of Christmas past leaves and Scrooge wakes…

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