Ghost Of Christmas Future Analysis

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come frightens Scrooge into submission and humbles him. Scrooge cannot change until he accepts the fact that he was wrong. By scaring and intimidating Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is able to accomplish that. Scrooge says to the spirit, “‘Ghost of the Future! I fear you more than any spectre I have seen’”(Stave IV, 2). In reaction to the spirits frightening demeanor, Scrooge becomes humble saying “‘I shall not leave its lesson, trust me.’” (Stave IV, 11). The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come’s lessons have the most impact on Scrooge because the spirit scares him into wanting to change. The ghost scares him because he represents the worst consequences. Finally, Scrooge learns he was wrong and begs the ghost, “‘Good Spirit,’” “‘Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me. Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life’”(Stave IV,

By this part in the novel, dickens introduced the next Ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Present. The ghost of Christmas present takes Scrooge to his clerk`s house. Here he witness the unfortunate conditions of their Christmas, however, it doesn’t appear to be so unfortunate at all; although Scrooge notices how Tiny Tim is crippled and at deaths door. He is moved by this sight, and that of his clerk’s family. He had never imagined their lives to be like this before; however it’s astonishing to him, that although extremely poor, they are full of joy and happiness. He notices the simple pleasures of family life as well. Furthermore something strange begins to happen, he sympathises with Tiny Time, who Scrooge understands will die without financial help. Dickens has showed us how scrooge is changing and learning to sympathise, a “skill” he previously didn’t have. "Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if Tiny Tim will live." ' Dickens once more showing us scrooges new found affections. Additionally when the Spirit predicts “an empty chair if things do not change”, Scrooge is quite

Ebenezer Scrooge learned a great deal about himself during the visitations of the three ghosts in A Christmas Carol. He learned things that not only changed his life, but also the lives of others such as Tiny Tim and his family. At first these changes came gradually, probably because they where not really "fuelled" by fear of what might be, but instead by remorse for things he had already done. Not until the second and third spirits visit Scrooge can a true change due to fear, not only in fear for what might be during his life but also in the end.

In 'A Christmas Carol', Dickens represents Scrooge as a 'squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner' who is against Christmas and happiness and values money, yet given a chance to redeem his fate. Marley's Ghost has come to warn Scrooge to change

Before Scrooge was approached by the spirits, Jacob Marley warned the chain Scrooge was forming was much longer than the one Marley himself had forged before he died. Ebeneezer’s malicious outlook on life would only impact his fate in a harmful way. However, there was time for him to make a difference in his lifetime. Hence, the apparitions visited the mean spirited man, successful in their mission to persuade Scrooge to change his fate for the better. By reading this story, the reader is given insight into how Dickens feels about the topic of fate. Clearly, Dickens was under the impression that fate is determined by the choices one makes throughout their lifetime. The fate of a benevolent, loving person will differ from the fate of a vicious, evil

When Scrooge saw his name on the stone he felt a deep regret for the hatred he had all of these years. Page 114 is discussing what Scrooge did after seeing his stone, he said to the Spirit, “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the years. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all the Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone.” He had a deep regret, he wanted forgiveness for everything he did in the past. Scrooge did not want to end as the grumpy old man he was, he wanted it to end with him being happy and

During Scrooge’s encounter with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge personality improves tremendously. Before Scrooge’s encounter with the first ghost, Scrooge was cold and untrustworthy. This is portrayed in the second stave on page 31, when Scrooge triumphantly states, “The hour itself, and nothing else,” after hearing from Marley that the spirits would haunt him at 1:00. Scrooge did not trust his own recollection or Marley’s warning. However, later in the stave on page 49, after the spirit showed Scrooge a poor decision that he made when he was younger, Scrooge tells the spirit, “Spirit, show me no more. Conduct me home…” He understands that the spirit has control over him, and trusts the spirit to bring him home.

But, as I know your promise is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart” (Dickens, 51). If it was not for the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, Scrooge would not have turned out to be the kindest man and Tiny Tim would have probably not lived. Now Scrooge is transformed into a new man and will never be a hateful, rude, cold-hearted, and covetous person ever

Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumpy old man, who would rather see the world burn than see people be happy. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a book about a lonely old man and his hatred for the world and how three supernatural ghost change is life. Scrooge is a businessman with a black heart. Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s business partner, died on Christmas Eve, and his death is why Scrooge hates anything and everyone. Around seven years after Marley’s death, Scrooge is visited by Marley’s ghost who warns Scrooge of the three spirits that will haunt him.

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.

To begin with, the ghost of Christmas past made Scrooge see a picture of love and loneliness. The first journey was to a school campus, with a lonely, solitary boy, and of course it was the young Ebenezer, without friends and without love. For the first time, Scrooge had compassion, "There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night," he explains to the ghost. "I should like to have given him something."(Horowitz, p274) It’s the love for himself that led him to think for others. Secondly, the ghost took Scrooge to a scene where his beloved sister, Fan, took him home from school. He remembered her heartwarming actions; how a little five-year-old girl made him overflow with love, and he was so touched. In

Scrooge is the main character in the story “A Christmas Carol”. Scrooge is a bitter old man that is unfair, plaintive unlikable, nihilist well as very rude. Moreover, Scrooge doesn't like anything that involves happiness, generosity, including most of all, Christmas. Consequently, his dead business partner’s ghost comes and warns him that three different ghosts will try to help him recover his old and peaceful self.. Scrooge’s experience felt fancied. On page one of the first passage one it says “ Scrooge is the grumpiest grump that ever .” In the text, it said “ Scrooge makes him leave (his nephew) but not before he insults his marriage because it is based on love.”I think that is a very excellent reason to back up that he is a very mean and

Scrooge is presented as a lonely character who has little left in life. Often he is linked to cold and darkness, perhaps linking to the demons he faces and how he presents them to others coming across as a moody, melancholics man. He has a fixation with money and how no money should be given away. Scrooge is similar to a villain in fairy tales which may be where Dickens got his character from.  In the opening line of the extract Scrooge is described as "a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone".

and he replies “Bah! Humbug!”. That night his former business partner of his appears in spirit form and warns him that 3 spirits will come; and if he doesn't change his ways he will share the same fate as Marley. When Scrooge goes to his bed, the first spirit appears: Ghost of Christmas Past. The ghost shows Scrooge losing his wife named Belle because of his thirst for money. Scrooge deeply affected by seeing this scene again causes him to cry before he goes back to his bed.

Throughout the novel and movie, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge experienced immense change. Firstly, when speaking to the charity workers about the homeless population, Scrooge stated, “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." This quote was stated at the beginning of the book and truly reflected Scrooge’s repulsive personality at that time. In addition, this piece of dialogue is extremely important as it was repeated by the Ghost of Christmas Present, after Scrooge said that he didn’t want Tiny Tim to perish. Towards the end of the story, after being a paid a visit by all three ghosts, Scrooge exclaimed, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.