Comparing The Christmas Carol: Scrooge And Marley

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a moral tale that depicts the protagonist’s Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral journey from selfishness to redemption. It can be seen that his new found way of life is derived from the desire to be a good man of the community and to assist others such as Tiny Tim. The idea of Scrooge’s transformation not being selfish can also be seen in his aspiration to contribute to the wider community that suffers from a poverty stricken way of life. In addition to this, Scrooge also reforms his way of life in order to feel love and care from family, which satisfied his nephew Fred aswell as himself. However, this selflessness is only to an

Characterization is the concept of creating characters. Many authors throughout time include dramatic transformations for their characters in their literature. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens brilliantly employs characterization within the character Ebenezer Scrooge, who experiences a truly powerful and life-changing transformation, from a horrid person to one with great ebullience for life.

“ Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings, ” said Carl Sandburg. Throughout the story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, he shares a clear message about wealth or having an abundance of money. The love of money can make mankind greedy and hateful, but wealth can also be used for thoughtful and generous purposes. His view goes hand in hand with the teachings of the Bible. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge shows that his love of money makes him selfish and full of greed, but once he is shown his past, present, future he realizes his ways and changes them to help others, and he specifically embraces the Cratchit family in many ways.

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

Dickens is trying to teach his audience that loving someone can change who you are because he writes about Scrooge changing for the better. For most of the story Scrooge is a bum, but as the story continues Scrooge begins to open up with his feelings. Scrooge begins to realize how love can change him, and he starts to become a better person because of it. “His own heart laughed; and that was quite enough for him.” (Dickens 50) After the three spirits come to visit him Scrooge stops being grumpy and starts to enjoy the little things in life because the spirits make him realize his ways. Scrooge’s heart opens up and he is more giving and kind then he once was. When your enlightened about how you act towards people and yourself, you want to change yourself for the better. Scrooge used love to change himself because he was a mean old man who didn't give back, but as Scrooge became more one with himself he

Impacted can be defined as having a strong influence in a positive manor on someone or something. Scrooge was impacted most by the Ghost of Christmas present in the novella A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. The Ghost of Christmas present taught him how to show kindness to others, and showed Scrooge how he affected those around him.

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

The author illustrates that Scrooge who is depicted as "hard and sharp as a flint" is a greedy miser whom is so old and coldhearted that nothing other than his profits will phase him. Dickens uses the scene when the ghost of Christmas past, "a child-like old man" uses flashbacks to show Scrooge of the memories he once made to show the nature of the much younger character. This is evident when Fan "a little girl much younger than Scrooge" had brought out the affection of her older brother as they planned "to be together all the Christmas long, and have the merriest time in all the world." What is important about this example is not just that it shows the compassion Scrooge once felt but also that Scrooge is not truly crooked and horrible to the core establishing the uplifting and inspiring feeling to readers.

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

“It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness,” -Charles Spurgeon. Throughout the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, happiness is relevant through hope and chance. Located in … during the Victorian Era, Scrooge, his Uncle Fred, Tiny Tim, and others prove that there is always a hope for change. By analyzing the themes: Scrooge’s Transformation, Social Justice, and Childhood Innocence; it becomes clear that happiness is key.

Change can have an outcome of bad or good, usually it is the change of good and better. In Scrooge & Marley: A Christmas Carol, Scrooge realizes more of the events that take place in the story, and this realization causes Scrooge to change for the good. Scrooge’s character changes, which causes him to carry the character traits of grateful, thoughtful, and apologetic. As a result Scrooge changes from his realization and then changes to become grateful.

Scrooge, a defiant character, loney and disgruntled, and Buddy, a gleeful human who thinks he is an elf, carry each a comparable personality. Scrooge from the play “A Christmas Carol”, written by Charles Dickens, is a solitary man who dislikes Christmas. Buddy from the movie “Elf”, written by Berenbaum and Farreau, is a positive character who enjoys people and Christmas, as well as believing he is an elf, growing up in the North Pole with Santa. Although holding bountiful similarities, Buddy and Scrooge bear a multitude of differences. Both Buddy and Scrooge are unaware of their effects on others.

What, Scrooge and George Bailey are different like a pineapple and apple! Scrooge in The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickison, is an old miser that is super wealthy that didn’t care about others until three christmas ghosts visited him and taught him a lesson or two. George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra, is a spirited adult who always lived his life helping others until something tragic happens and he gets visited by an angel. Scrooge and Bailey even though they seem similar, they do have different lives, first of all there is a time difference, different types of love during their lives, and also what makes them different is the angel and the three ghosts. A gross amount, might be fooled that they are similar but it is quite

Remuneration can lead to hostility in social groups. The Gift of the Magi, written by O. Henry, has a synopsis of two people who willingly devote their hard-earned money for each other, although they hanker for a renovated lifestyle. They are a bit morose when dealing with their living situation. On the other hand, A Christmas Carol, scribed by Charles Dickens, tells a story of an affluent man who indulges in downright unsuccessful behavior towards humans and, after an abundance of procuration, is goaded by three spirits to culminate his narcissism. People treat others miscellaneously based on wage as evinced by their contrasting outlooks on the world, conversiality of sacrificial choices, and relationships toward others.

A Christmas Carol is preeminent a Christian moral story of reclamation about, as Fred , (Scrooges Nephew) puts it, the "kind, forgetting, altruistic, lovely time" of Christmas. Scrooge is a skinflint businessperson who speaks to the greediest driving forces of Victorian England's rich. He subscribes to the rules of the Poor Laws, which abuse the underclass, and has no glow in his soul for anything other than cash. Dickens perfectly showcases this, by representing Cratchit as the hardworking poor, and Scrooge as the conspicuous image of the avaricious Victorian rich. Cratchit is an unassuming, frail man who must choose the option to obey to his employer’s requests.