Compare And Contrast A Christmas Carol Scrooge

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 is an overly grumpy, greedy, curmudgeon, mild, insensitive, thoughtless, dolorous, elderly man who lives in a house all by himself. He has silver, gray hair, a pointed nose, and wiry chin. He acts like a harsh, miserable, lonely, gloomy, and depressed fellow. He also was very unfriendly to those young fellows who were trying to gather donations for the poor. When Scrooge was younger, he was actually very kind and generous to the people around him. Scrooge is very inconsiderate of others, and according to the text on page one, stave one it said that “ No wind blew was bitterer than he”, and he was a person who did not believe in the Christmas spirit until a trio of ghosts shows him his past, present, and future.

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

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

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? ”

Scrooge’s character has changed throughout the story because he shows emotion and regret, he begins to feel empathy for the less fortunate, and he feels great sorrow when he views the death of himself and others. In the beginning, Scrooge was a cold, stingy man who felt nothing for others. Scrooge drastically changed when the first ghost, The Ghost of Christmas Past visited him, who returned his ability to show emotion and regret. For instance, Scrooge feels great remorse when he mentions “There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The way Scrooge acts in the story says a lot about him, but so does the description about him in the sixth paragraph. The passage clearly states that Scrooge is “a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone” and is “hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel struck out a generous fire.” Furthermore, the passage continues to show more detail by saying that he’s “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner” and “solitary as an oyster.” All of this shows a generous amount of greediness and coldheartedness. The text even says “the cold within him froze his features,” which proves the point that he is not a very happy camper. The story continues and compares him to weather and how it can be beautiful, while Scrooge cannot be. As it continues, we discover that Scrooge hates Christmas and everything related to it (including carolers, donors, etc.)

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).

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.

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.

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.