How Did Scrooge Change Throughout A Christmas Carol

‘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.

During the first haunting Scrooge was haunted by The Ghost Of Christmas Past. In this trip he learned how greedy he had become. Scrooge visited his childhood home. On page 656, His sister Fan said, “You’re a man and never to come back here, but first, were to be together all Christmas long, and have the merriest time in the world.” The young child Fan would only say this because Scrooge had never come home for Christmas. He also visited the Christmas’ in his life when he loved and lost his ex-fiance. He met his fiance during an apprenticeship from Mr. Fezziwig, a warehouse owner, and they were both poor and didn’t care that they were so. A few years later they were engaged and the woman left Ebenezer, saying, he was to in love with money and no longer in love with her. This is shown on page 659, “Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and intended to be so.” These lessons helped Scrooge to learn what amount of greed he had in his soul, and it

In the Christmas Carol the main character Scrooge’s has a business of being human, although he abuses that and does not do the right things. Scrooge is very rude to characters and has lost one of his only friends Marley. Scrooge also has a clerk that has more importance then you would think. Scrooge is all about money and himself. In the story the author Dickens wants the reader to understand that one’s business in life is to be kind to others even when you feel they do not deserve it.

The Ghost of Christmas Present showed Scrooge many happenings from the people Scrooge knows, but the Ghost also showed him people he doesn’t know and probably never will, people who are suffering themselves. After the Ghost showed Scrooge the Cratchit’s household and his nephew’s house, he showed him people far from home, people in jails, people in hospitals, and people who were simply struggling. The Ghost blessed each of those people, the people that he had no relation to, the people whom he knew nothing about. Their struggles were relieved, the struggling more patient, the sick healed, and so on. In doing this, the Ghost showed Scrooge that although Scrooge was not magical, one person’s blessing can impact many people. He showed Scrooge that kindness and generosity can make the biggest difference, and caring about others, caring about all others, can create a big change and be beneficial to everyone.

The Ghost of Christmas Present in “A Christmas Carol” takes Scrooge to various locations to demonstrate the different ways people celebrate the time of Christmas. Although these people lack the material wealth and security that Scrooge has obtained,

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

In the play, A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley by Israel Horovitz the main character Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas and people. At the beginning, he shows very different and mean actions towards people and how he is always mad. For example when Scrooge leaves his office's people start to walk past him in a happy and merry mood. But in contrast to the people, Scrooge has a frown and looks unhappy for the Christmas time. Another example is that when his nephew is talking to him he is wanting him to leave so he keeps on repeating the words, “Good Afternoon!” until he leaves. The last example would be that when Cratchit is cold in the office, Scrooge starts yelling at him saying that he would fire him because he was showing he was cold. Scrooge also shows it in his own words by saying “...every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”(647).

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come showed him the perfect scenes to convince him to change. In stave four, Scrooge is shown a few members from his staff talking about the recent death. They are speaking very rudely, and he is horrified about their behavior. When he sees the grave and figures out it was him, it helps him to realize that being mean doesn’t make you happy. It just makes you unlikable and grumpy.

Throughout “A Christmas Carol” Scrooge was a really mean, hateful, selfish mister, I felt like he would never change, he was a man you wouldn’t want to hang out with. Scrooge became, to me the worse guy and the most selfish. Then, Scrooge went from being a hateful mister to a genuinely good person. He, was visited by The Ghosts Of Christmas Past, then Present, and lastly by Future. The Ghost Of Christmas Past visited Scrooge.

Scrooge now no longer thinks only of himself, but others and their needs as well. When he first arrived back in his room after the spirits visited him, he changed immediately through his thoughts. “It’s Christmas day!” said Scrooge to himself “I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night.”. This shows the reader that Scrooge now cares about Christmas and is thankful for the Spirits.

I can tell this because in the beginning of the movie, Scrooge is narrated as a cold, selfish man who only cares about himself. While everyone else in the movie is jolly and full of happiness, he walks with a demeanor of a self composed person who wants nothing to do with anybody. Even though he is selfish, his worker still manages to deal with him and show him a bit of compassion. Scrooge does not care it for it one bit, its almost like talking to a wall. Try as he might though, he

money to the poor. He thinks of them as idle and he states that if

Change is one way to becoming a better person and influencing others to change as well. The book A Christmas Carol is an excellent book that representantes how change can be used in a very positive way and can change someone's life for the better. This book is by Charles Dickens - a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator. The main characters name is Scrooge. Scrooge is a mean person who doesn’t like to share anything.

In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is a greedy, selfish man who doesn't think about others. When he meets the ghosts, Past shows how sad he was when he was young and how his greed made him lose his love. Present showed him how he affected those around him and how greedy he is. Future brings him to his death and how no one cared that he died and instead stole from his home. Similarities between the movie and the drama are the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The differences are the lines and the scenes.

Setting This astonishing story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, shows many interpretations of how society has changed. The main character Scrooge in the beginning is an example of society today, and Scrooge in the end of the story is a illustration of how society should be. Scrooge started as an old grumpy guy who hated christmas, this represents how society is now. after scrooge came to his senses, after three ghosts came to his house and showed him to live in the past, present, and the future, This is an example of society, and how they should be.