Scrooge Symbolism

Scrooge began his transformation into a good man when the Ghost of Christmas present shows him the Cratchit household. Scrooge throughout this scene is presented with the consequences of his actions and how they affect those who are less fortunate than he. “Think of that. Bob had but fifteen bob a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of

Scrooge is a very mean person and he doesn't care for anyone, he will be an old miser and he could care less about anything in the world except himself.He does mean stuff all the time liked decline charity and he doesn't even wanna make the world a better place.He even declined his nephews invite to a Christmas party now that's mean and when he's asked to donate for charity he is too much of a greedy soul to do anything to help anyone and he says that they need to go to a workhouse or prison, He doesn't care about anyone and he ignores everyone and could care less about the world's problems. He thinks that that is ok and then he gets a visit from a ghost saying that three ghosts are gonna come get him and that he shouldn't have been that greedy and he is gonna get a visit from them. Scrooge is freaking out and it takes him a while and he eventually gets sent to bed. In my opinion, though he is acting like that because Marley died and he is emotionally depressed and he takes his pain out on others because he is very said that's just my opinion.

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? ”

The ghost was from the past. It showed him all the bad things that happened in the past all the things. All of his old days came back when the ghost of Christmas past showed him. He showed Scrooge when his sister died and that was the sad part. Then the ghost finally took scrooge back to his house and he lied down and it brought back good and bad memories. That was how the ghost of Christmas past influence

The famous novel, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old man who is visited by a series of ghosts, starting with his old business partner, Jacob Marley. The three spirits which follow, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, show Scrooge how his mean behavior has affected those around him. He is shown how his actions toward the community will affect him and others around him if his behavior does not change.

The Ghost shows Scrooge’s childhood. In Act One, page 251, it states “Look, you, sir, a school ahead. The schoolroom is not quite deserted. A solitary child neglected by his friends, is left there still. ”[ Scrooge falls to the ground; sobbing as he sees, and we see, a small boy, the young Scrooge, sitting and weeping, bravely, alone at his desk: alone in a vast space, void.]” In his childhood, he was alone and neglected. He doesn’t want to be reminded of his terrible childhood. It also states,“There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol outside my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that’s all.” He

The first spirit to visit him was the Ghost of Christmas Past who showed to Scrooge some of the past Christmases that Scrooge was a better man in the past. “Oh I loved her,” said Scrooge with a smile on his face when he saw Fann, his loving little sister. There was also the Ghost of Christmas Present. With the help of both of them, Scrooge was beginning to become a greater man when he saw how awfully Mr. Bob Cratchit was struggling. The Ghost of Christmas Present showed Scrooge how the other people around him cared for him. At Fred’s party and at the Cratchit house, they both gave a toast to Scrooge’s good health. Looking at these two instances Scrooge started to turn into a finer man for himself, family, and

The spirit wanted Scrooge to be happy and not be greedy anymore so the spirit takes scrooge through his past to remember how happy he was. Scrooge felt bad for himself because of all the good memories that were made when he was a kid. After the spirit showed scrooge his past, scrooge felt bad for himself. He says “poor boy” an tears up, then he wishes that gave something to the little boy that came carolling at his door. Scrooge wishes that he could be happy like he was when he was a little boy. He changes some but he doesn't change all the way.

In Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol there's many themes and symbolism that are compelling to the novel. Such as Scrooge character development through a miserable man that hates Christmas and people around him that would rather be in his little cocoon of a shell then commute and gather with the people that loves him and would want to share the holiday spirit with him. Scrooge in the story is cold as ice and does some inherent and despicable Things in the story. Such as showing how uncaring he is to the poor and people who lower then Him in class. In the depiction of the book, a man ask Scrooge for money many times for donation to the needy but Scrooge neglects him time after time. This summarize how uncaring he is to the poor and how selfish he is

The ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to when he was younger, and opened his eyes to see how nicely he was treated by those around him, such as his former boss Fezziwig, who treated him like a son of his own, and the bitter moment of regret when Scrooge, as his young foolish self, traded his interests for Belle, his former girlfriend, with money and wealth.Scrooge, seeing himself for the first time, yells at his past, calling himself a fool, regretting his decision to let her go. Scrooge is left alone, but showing a very different situation, the ghost of Christmas present suggests he may not be hopeless. The sight of his nephew, Fred, and his wife, toasting to his good health, Bob Cratchit doing the same, even though he is nothing special to Scrooge... Seeing how others could still care about a heartless being like himself, Scrooge slowly begins to realize, that sometimes, it is not only money, but kindness is also a great gift to

Based on what I read, Scrooge is a tight fisted-hand at the grindstone. As a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching covetous old sinner, his reputation in the community is perceived as a ill-mannered man. According to the text, Scrooge is hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel has ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. In the text it states that, “Scrooge’s appearance is topped with his frosty rime on his head and his eyebrows makes him appear shrewd and cold.” Scrooge pronounce “What’s Christmas time to you but 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 everything.

Scrooge is a symbol of the Victorian aristocracy who viewed the poor as a scourge upon the earth and thought the world would better if they died, as Scrooge alludes to in the Carol

Accordingly a ghostly figure appeared. The text describes him as a child, but as a man. The ghost didn’t have a wrinkle on its face and it wore the purest of white cloak. Therefore Scrooge assumed that this is the spirit that the forthcoming had been told of. The spirit enunciates with a gentle voice explaining that he was the spirit of Christmas past.

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".

Scrooge is an overly grumpy, rude, greedy, curmudgeon, mild, and insensitive, 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.