Compare Dickens’ presentation of Scrooge in Stave I and Stave V

‘A Christmas Carol’ covers a period of 24 hours from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. It is a simple morality tale of the radical change in the character Ebenezer Scrooge from being bitter, ironfisted and miserable to becoming a new, openhearted and charitable man.

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.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the most classic stories that has been embraced by Western culture. There is a certain timelessness to the entire story, in that it demonstrates the powerful transformation of an incredibly stilted and unlikeable character to that of someone who is giving, kind and generous. The popularity and timelessness of this play is representative of how deeply human being want to believe in the possibility of change, even radical change, and that it's not too late to change one's life. However, the timelessness and popularity of this tale also reveals something else about human nature: there's a tendency such as an overwhelming whiff and desire for human beings to believe that transformation can be overnight and immediate. The reality is that most transformation and change takes years of hard work. However, change as it is presented in this play is a manifestation of the human desire to experience quick and instantaneous transformation, even with someone's character which has formed over a period of decades. In regards to the notion that "Ebenezer Scrooge is difficult to like, but easy to understand" this is generally true if an individual has had a fair amount of life experience. This paper will demonstrate that Ebenezer Scrooge is someone who has a fatal flaw, but the flaws which are demonstrated in this play, aren't as unique as some might view them. In many respects, Scrooge is

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

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.

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 had a miserable childhood where he was always in a boarding school and his parents never visited him. If you were sent to a boarding school and felt your parents forgot you, would you be an angry adult? Scrooge in the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a major character in the story in which he is not very nice to anybody because of his life happenings. When he appears in the story, he is greedy and doesn’t want to like anybody, he is a very unhappy man that only cares about himself. But at the end he kind of is clear that he was very childish and that he didn’t care about anyone else but himself so he decided he wanted to change his act. While he is with all the spirits, he goes from greedy and mean to clear of his mistakes, he wanted to be nice to everybody, and wanted to tell people that, by giving back to them in any way possible.

Dickens conveys Scrooge’s personality change based on fear that is influenced by surrounding characters, as he fears that no individual will remember him on earth. As Scrooge is a part of the upper class, Dickens refers back to the audience who were the middle/working class as they are full of joy even though they are treated without respect but they have the best values as they are hard working and kind. Due to Scrooge treating his employees with no compassion as he has a heart, “...as hard as a flint…” this allows the fear that Scrooge feels to become apparent towards the reader. The catalyst of his fear is the entrance of Marley who displays the consequence of living a mean-spirited life, “...the chains I forged in life..” but Scrooge doesn't

Firstly Scrooge is portrayed as a reclusive human being during the initial paragraphs of the first stave, Charles Dickens writes, “Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster”. The adjectives “hard” and “sharp” are used by Dickens to show Scrooge’s personality, it shows how Scrooge keeps to himself and could be seen as a metaphor to show that he has never been in contact with anyone from the outside world If he had been in

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.

Scrooge was a man who did not like to give anything to anyone and was disgusted with Christmas. Throughout the story, Scrooge went on an adventure. Three Spirits showed him what happens when he does not give back and does not support his community. Scrooge is having a hard time accepting people and being gentle with their feelings. He will not even let his accountant take Christmas Day off.

In this essay I will compare the scrooge Christmas carol book and film. This are both examples of the famous story of Charles dickens. We are going to compare them both by their characters, setting and mood. Characters in both versions are mostly the same. In the film doesn’t explain the life of the main character mr, scrooge, it only shows some short scene.

I feel Israel Horowitz’s adaption of “The Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” agrees with the research presented in both articles. I feel he agrees more with the CNN article than he does Science Daily. I also am inferring Dickens feels family is the thing that causes happiness. I will use characters from “The Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” and their characterization to support that some of Israel Horowitz’s characters agree with the Science Daily article and most with the CNN article.

After the exit of the final spirit, Scrooge emerges a changed man. He was a man who thought money was everything, who thought Christmas was just an excuse for picking a man’s pocket, and who thought poor people shouldn’t deserve a donation. Now he is a man who spreads Christmas cheer, buys huge birds as presents, and raises his clerk's salary. Scrooge shows change as the Spirit of Christmas Present takes him to his colleague(the Cratchit’s) house When Scrooge sees how positive Tiny Tim is being in the condition this leads him to say ”Oh, please spirit say he’ll be spared”(page 9, stave III). The previous quote shows that Scrooge has developed empathy towards others. Scrooge again shows change when the Spirit of Christmas Future takes Scrooge takes him to a cemetery, Scrooge goes to the tombstone nearest to him scrubs off the snow, and sees it’s his, Scrooge wanting to avoid this says ”I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

On the other hand, the movie, is a lot similar to the script but has some divergent ways of how it’s put in order. The story does not start out with Marley speaking , in fact, Scrooge begins with the story in his shop. His nephew comes and visits in a orderly fashion way and asks if he can join him for Christmas dinner. “ Come dine with us tomorrow, it would be great joy to myself and my wife”. ( Movie 1984) Scrooge doesn’t give any love to his friend, relatives, or even family. He only gives love to his shillings piled up on his desk. Even though Scrooge lost his partner, Marley, he doesn’t have the Christmas joy now that he has money. He thinks Christmas is humbug and wouldn’t give anything interest in it. After a while, Scrooge begins closing