Compare And Contrast A Christmas Carol Scrooge

How does one compare a play and a movie when both are based off of a book? The book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, has had many adaptations by aspiring producers and writers. One of these includes a 1984 adaptation under the same name starring George C Scott as the famed character Scrooge. Another of these adaptations is a live production; a play called A Christmas Carol as well, performed by the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire. A play and a movie are very different of course; a movie can be shot over months while a play has to be performed live. These two shows had to use different techniques to tell the audience the story. Both of these focus on the central theme of the story; that the true meaning of christmas is giving,

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel; I am as merry

Christmastime brings joy and happiness to most people, Ebenezer Scrooge is not of them. Scrooge at the beginning of the story is a grumpy old miser that believes that Christmas is a humbug and thinks that "Its less of a time of being merry, and more of a time of being loony". Scrooge is very rude and nasty especially to his nephew when he asks him to come to his dinner and say " I'd rather see myself dead than with your family. ". Scrooge, when businessmen come to ask for revisions for the poor Scrooge, asks very rudely " Are there no prisons" As you can tell Scrooge is not the nicest person and needs to change but what can make Scrooge change.

In A Christmas Carol there are more similarities than differences. One of many differences is the people begging for money on the streets. One of the many similarities are the happiness of the music that is being sung by the people. The past, present, and future have some similarities but also some differences. In the play past says to take her hand (Dickens, 12) and in the movie she tells Scrooge to touch her robe (Video 1984).

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol takes the reader on a journey to find out how the main character, Scrooge, transforms from a life of anger and cruelty to a life of love and kindness. Throughout the novel Scrooge saw himself in the past, present and future. These aberrations touched him deeply and forced him to undergo change for the good of himself and others. Because Scrooge was able to experience the company of the ghosts of christmas past, present and future he positively changed his attitude and his outlook on life.

As the night darkens Scrooge will soon find out the true meaning of christmas. Scrooge, wwin the play A Christmas Carol, by Charles dickens is the main character in a story that follows the past of an ungrateful old man. When Scrooge is first introduced, he is disrespectful in the way he acts and the way he talks. However, at the end of the play he is cheerful in the way he treats and talks to the people around him. During the night Scrooge changes from disrespectful to cheerful, and in the process learns to cherish others.

Progress is impractical without change, and the people who never change never make a difference. Sometimes, it can seem almost impossible to change, especially when it is hard to see a reason for it. Even the slightest effort with the littlest change could alter someone’s world. Scrooge, the main character in A Christmas Carol, took an extraordinarily long time to realize this. Even someone as cold and harsh as Scrooge, the man who had no family or friends, was able to change his life.

From the story, “A Christmas Carol”, to the movie, “Scrooged”, there are many similarities and differences in the characters, symbols and even plot although much of it is due to the change in setting from the early 1840’s to the late 1980’s. Beginning with characters, Ebenezer Scrooge carries his overall theme of generosity or lack thereof into the movie where he is referred to as Frank Cross. Cross shows this in his Christmas gifts that he gives out to family and employees which happen to be no more than a fluffy towel. Scrooge expresses his lack of generosity by giving Bob Crachit, his employee, little to no christmas bonus and being unhappy with his request to take Christmas day off. In both the book and movie, Scrooge and Cross both start out with a very annoyed and almost depressed demeanor, both having a short temper and being very dismissive towards others. Cross was vain and very dedicated to his television company while Scrooge was a workaholic and the only thing he cared about was money. He also craved isolation as he would return home

I´m about to compare the story of “A Christmas Carol” and the film “Scrooge”. I´m going to be talking about the characters, setting, and the mood. All of these elements will help me define which one of the two methods of delivery (play or film) is better at the moment of telling the story.

A recurring theme in both Dicken’s A Christmas Carol and the 1988 film Scrooged is the passing of time. This movie adaptation utilizes Dicken’s message of past sins leading to future death. Both works include chains that represent the future prison sentence of the main character in purgatory. They are visited by the ghosts of a deceased person they knew locked in chains that foreshadows the same fate for them. Additionally, there is evidence of time passing. In the book, any jumps in time that the ghosts of Christmas take Scrooge on was be accompanied by bells. The film adaptation preferred the more modern ding of an elevator to accomplish the same thing with Cross. By the end of the of the protagonists’ journeys, they are both faced with

Scrooge keeps the coal-box in his own room so the clerk is not able to

In London, during the time of Ebenezer Scrooge, money meant a lot. If you had a good share of it, you were able to enjoy things that others weren’t, and spend it on not only needs, but wants as well. Scrooge was one of the few people who had a good amount of money. However, his lifestyle was inconsistent with his wealth. In the novel, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is a cold man that is on a journey to a better, more humane life. However, his need for money continues to sway his decisions along the way. Though Scrooge has enough money to enjoy privileges that others can’t, he continues to spare it. His financial lifestyle doesn’t match up with reality.

Scrooge began his transformation into a good man when the Ghost of Christmas present shows him the Cratchit household. Scrooge throughout this scene is presented with the consequences of his actions and how they affect those who are less fortunate than he. “Think of that. Bob had but fifteen bob a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of

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.

The movie “A Christmas Carol” is better than the book. The book is a very descriptive christmas novel. The movie shows more feeling than the book did. The setting and lighting has set a better mood overall than the book.this is why the movie is better than the book.