The Characters Of Ebenezer Scrooge

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

Ebenezer Scrooge had changed a lot throughout the screenplay and movies. In the story, Scrooge had started out as a rich miser who didn’t care about anything but himself and his business. He ended up being a kind man who helped everyone he could and gave back to the community. He had changed in many ways and had been shown what he had become. Marley helped Scrooge realize that he had made everyone turn away from him and think poorly of him, and that some people like Bob Cratchit and his nephew, had hoped that he could change. Scrooge’s encounters with the spirits had shown him the most.

Scrooge wakes up, as it is about to be one o’clock. It already has happened once, so Scrooge is used to all of it now, so he stays calm, as he pulls apart the bed curtains all by himself, and Scrooge also prepares to not freak out this time, though, nothing happens.

The text explicitly states Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner has passed away. According to the text, he despises many things such as happiness, humor, and even Christmas. From the reading, I know that he is depressed all the time, consequently his mental state has led him to call other people stupid, dumb, and idiots. On page three, in the conversation with his nephew Fred, Scrooge insults his nephew about marrying and loving his wife. The text states, that he also “seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the frost and even more congenial frost.” From the reading I know that Scrooge isn’t a people person and is very down about life. Based on the text he doesn’t really like being around them. For example Scrooge didn’t donate any money to the poor, and blew off his nephew about spending Christmas with them. In the text it states that there is no wind as bare as Scrooge, this means he doesn't really care or doesn't have many feelings.

Dickens used a lot of description to guide the reader through all the emotions displayed by Scrooge in this visit and the surroundings the visit brought them to, such as “and called out, in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, vocal voice....” and “bright a ballroom as you would desire to see upon a winter’s night!” Happiness is one more emotion shown during the visit, “Why, it’s old Fezziwig! Bless his heart, it’s Fezziwig! Bless his heart, its Fezziwig alive again! This shows that Scrooge still is capable of being happy once again and it also shows the reader the lighter side of Scrooge that the reader has never seen before. The final emotion seen in this visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past revealed by Scrooge was sadness.”Quite alone in the world, I do believe.” This shows how Scrooge’s “journey” into loneliness and bitterness began at the point where

changes and cares about other things. Scrooge is a dynamic character. These are reasons why

From this extract the reader knows that Scrooge is a negative character. Straight away we know that he has a negative impact on others. ‘Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you?”’ This dialogue never actually happened, this shows that the other characters in the book are too afraid to acknowledge

Scrooge is ignorant to the fact that Christmas is about being with family. As he goes around with the spirit he sees Bob Cratchit’s family and their small goose, but they are happy nun the less. He then goes it see his nephew Fred at his house with his guests and wife playing a game. He is ignorant to the fact that they all have found joy in each other’s company. As he is usually alone on Christmas.

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? ”

Any sympathy for Scrooge will have been lost at this point because he enjoyed the things that he put himself through. Dickens has done this to emphasise that Scrooge is not part of the world, he simply exists in

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.

In the beginning of the book, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold, selfish and greedy man. He owns a business and is rich, but never does anything good with his money and keeps it to himself. He thinks of Christmas as a useless holiday and does not care to talk or smile to anybody he sees. However, as the spirits of the past, present and future visit him, Scrooge becomes much kinder and wants to become a better person. He learns to care for others and becomes more engaged in his community.

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

He first was annoyed and put upon that he had to be visited by them. Secondly, Scrooge whispers to himself “I’ll send it to Bob Cratchit”and says to the boy ”Come back with the man and I’ll give you a shilling, come back with him in less than five minutes, and I’ll give you a half a crown”. This shows that Scrooge has changed financially as well. This is because in the beginning Scrooge won’t buy anything for himself or others and now, he is willing to be generous with his money to those around him and is thoughtful of others less fortunate than him, he shows this through his thoughts when he thinks about how Bob Cratchit only could afford a small turkey for his large family and decides to help him and purchase a massive turkey so that his family would be fed well on Christmas and afterward with leftovers. In The Christmas Carol Scrooge changes through his

He does not believe in the celebration of Christmas or giving to others. However, after his meeting with the three spirits he has changed. When Scrooge awoke, he ran to his windows and said “A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!” (127).