Christmas Carol Scrooge Analysis

The text explicitly states Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner has passed away. According to the text, he despises many things such as happiness, humor, and even Christmas. From the reading, I know that he is depressed all the time, consequently his mental state has led him to call other people stupid, dumb, and idiots. On page three, in the conversation with his nephew Fred, Scrooge insults his nephew about marrying and loving his wife. The text states, that he also “seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the frost and even more congenial frost.” From the reading I know that Scrooge isn’t a people person and is very down about life. Based on the text he doesn’t really like being around them. For example Scrooge didn’t donate any money to the poor, and blew off his nephew about spending Christmas with them. In the text it states that there is no wind as bare as Scrooge, this means he doesn't really care or doesn't have many feelings.

Christmas is the time of year where everyone seems to be happy no matter what is going on currently in the world around them. But not for Ebenezer Scrooge. Everyone makes mistakes, but some that Scrooge had made, made a big impact on his life. Because of his lack to spread kindness and charity, Scrooge’s consequences were three lovely visits from the Spirit of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come that made Scrooge reflect on his previous decisions so he can have an even greater future. When Scrooge’s partner, Marley, passes away, he lives an even more greedy and selfish life, finding another reason to strongly hate Christmas. Thus one part of why his poor action will provide a future consequence. Secondly, since Scrooge had been so selfish to everyone, including the whole town of London, it is pretty certain that all of London dislikes Scrooge. Although the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge that if he does indeed stay selfish, he most certainly will not be missed when he passes away. Lastly, his mistake in life was from his past when he decides to worry and obsess over making money and being successful rather than making sure he and his fiance’s future was more secure rather than secure finances. A Christmas Carol displays actions and consequences depend on one's own actions and decisions whether good or bad.

Scrooge is a rude, dismal man who hates mankind, and Christmas. During Christmastime there is a lot of charity and for being such a wealthy man that Scrooge is, he hates to give money to charity. He also thinks that Christmas is waste of time, and it could be used for

Ebenezer Scrooge is the major character in the story, A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is about how a “cold-hearted, tight fisted, selfish” money grabbing man is offered an opportunity of a life time, to change his behaviour, attitude... to have a second chance in life.

In A Christmas Carol, an allegory of spiritual values versus material ones, Charles Dickens shows Scrooge having to learn the lesson of the spirit of Christmas, facing the reality of his own callous attitude to others, and reforming himself as a compassionate human being. The reader is shown his harshness in the office, where he will not allow Bob Cratchit enough coal to warm his work cubicle and begrudges his employee a day off for Christmas, even claiming that his clerk is exploiting him. In the scene from the past at Fezziwig’s warehouse, Scrooge becomes aware of the actions of a conscientious, caring employer and feels his first twinge of conscience. The author suggests an origin for Scrooge’s indifference to others as Scrooge is portrayed as a neglected child, the victim of a harsh father intent on denying him a trip home for the holidays and only reluctantly relenting.

According to the text, Scrooge is a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, who emphatically worships money. Meanwhile, in addition, the text says that Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, clutching, covetous, old sinner. In the text it states, “Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal, but he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal in his room.” The ghost of Jacob Marley visits Scrooge and by showing him a reflection of himself, begins the reformation of Scrooge as we know him at the borderline of the story. The spirit leaves him the opposite from where he was at in the beginning. Throughout the entire beginning of “A Christmas Carol” The miser demeanor is “hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck”. The text states on page 3 how Scrooge feels about Christmas when he says to the two men who were soliciting money for the poor, “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? ”

Ebenezer Scrooge was a slave to his desire for wealth would be an understatement. His very innate being was controlled by this one all consuming want, and it infected and ruined every relationship he was ever part of. However, Mr. Scrooge isn’t remembered necessarily for his greed, rather he’s remembered for his drastic change at the end of the novel. In the beginning of the novel when Mr. Scrooge is approached by two gentleman in order to make a Christmas donation Scrooge says that, “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”(11). Mr. Scrooge does not care about his fellow people, all he cares about is their cash. He is a foul and nasty character. However after being visited by three ghosts he starts to become a better person. His transition begins when the Ghost of Christmas Past shows him how he alienated his love and how he lost his sister as well. This starts to put a crack in his psyche and is the beginning of his transformation. Next he is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present who shows him the awful conditions that his employee Bob Cratchit is suffering, no thanks to Scrooge. The fact that Mr. Cratchit’s son Tim may soon die because of him wears away at Scrooge’s facade of heartlessness even more, but the transition isn’t yet complete. Although he asks the Ghost of Christmas Present whether Tim Cratchit will live and is “overwhelmed with penitence and grief”(63), his despair at the young child’s

At first glance, you might think scrooge is and ordinary senior who owns a business and has quite a fortune, but once you look into his eyes you see how his soul is dark, small,crooked, shattered and beyond repair and clearly from a lost love. Might be the reason why he is so inconsiderate and he only cares about

Ebenezer Scrooge, was disrespectful to everyone around him, is miserable now that Marley, his business partner of many years has died. According to the text, Scrooge hates things like happiness, generosity, and Christmas. Oh! How he hates Christmas! His feelings about Christmas are consistent until three ghosts show him that his way of thinking is wrong. On pages one and two, it says “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather could chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon it’s purpose.” The author was saying nothing can change how he acts towards other people. Scrooge was a person who was always down, gloomy, and moody. For example on page one there is a description of him and it says, “ The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.” His wrinkled, aged, rough appearance reflects his inner feelings. According to the text, “Scrooge carried his own low temperature everywhere he went.” Scrooge’s demeanor was always low.

In the Victorian time period, most of the poor people went to prisons, workhouses, or worked on the Treadmill. “‘Are there no prisons?’ asked Scrooge. ‘Plenty of prisons,’ said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. ‘And the Union Workhouses?’ demanded Scrooge. ‘Are they still in operation?’ ‘They are. Still,’ returned the gentleman, ‘I wished I could say they were not.’ ‘The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?’ said Scrooge. ‘Both very busy, sir.’ ‘Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,’ said Scrooge.” (Dickens 16). This is another quote from the conversation between the gentleman and Scrooge, in which Scrooge says that the poor should go to the places he has mentioned, although they do not have ideal safety measures or break times. Dickens also uses the book to show to others that most poor people would not wish to work in the workhouses or go to the prisons and would rather die. “‘I wish to be left alone,’ said Scrooge. ‘Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off should go there.’ ‘Many

Greed in Christmas Carol Guy Madison Dec. 7th, 2017 Imagine an old man who is overflowing with wealth, he has bad relations with his nephew, does not donate to charity, won’t let employee’s of work for christmas, that is Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is full of greed, one of the main themes in the story Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. Christmas Carol is a book based on greed and other themes, here is details on why there’s greed in the story. Scrooge is a wealthy greedy elder, he only likes charities for prisons and such. After a conversation on that he still won’t donate money for even a prison charity.

'To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.' 'What idol has displaced you?' he rejoined. 'A golden one,'" (Dickens 34), is a quote showing how Scrooge is selfish for "worshipping" money and not focusing too much on Belle, his girlfriend. "Race director Julie Ishphoding said about 500 people hauled off boxes of food at the finish line meant for all participating runners, with leftovers to be donated to the free store food bank. (They) even piled it up so that it was under their chin, having trouble getting all of the food they could get," is a quote that shows selfishness. This is because the runners took way more food than they can eat, which resulted in less food for the poor. "'I don't merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry,'" (Dickens 7). This shows hoe Scrooge is stingy because he would donate a small portion of his wealth to help poor people. The quote "the group highlighted a married couple who will be working on that day, leaving their to children parentless on the holiday," shows this as well because a company refused to let parents stay with their children rather than not making quite as much money that day. These all show things that are very much like Scrooge, which proves that Scrooge still exists

In the beginning, Scrooge was an unkind man. He did not care for others nor did he treat people equally. When Scrooge spoke to Fred, his nephew, he was rude and ungrateful. Fred invited Scrooge to dinner and he rudely declined. Even

A lot of people die so what was so special about scrooge? Let’s find out.A lot of people were talking about the man because he was a cheap, mean tight-fisted miser.Throughout the story he proved this by not donating for charity, he wouldn’t share and he also only worked by candle light and heat from a small fire .

Ebenezer Scrooge starts of in the story being a angry, unkind, and ungrateful man. Scrooge never donated any money to the poor or to any charities. For example one day near the christmas holiday some people came to his place of work asking if he would donate some money to the less fortunate, he refused to help out by donating and told them to leave. Mr. Scrooge underpaid his worker Mr. Bob Cratchit, it shows in the story that Bob was not getting paid enough for the amount of hours he worked for Mr. Scrooge, because he could barely afford to feed his family. Also Ebenezer never went to visit his family. Mr. Scrooge's nephew had been asking his uncle to come to supper with him and his family on christmas day for years and he always said no and that he would not come.