The Transformation Of Scrooge In Charles Dickens 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.

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.

Another example is on page 160 is when Scrooge says that he will live in the Past, the Present and the future and that all three spirits shall live within him Scrooge is recognizing his mistakes in the past and is say that he will learn from them.Also Scrooge says “Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob; on my knees!” (Dickens 160) Which could be taken as that Scrooge now believes in God or that his faith has been renewed. Also in the book Scrooge is said to became a good friend, master and a good mas as the old city knew, and while some laughed at him he payed no heed for he thought that as they were laughing it all was fine. This show that Scrooge has changed and become a better person.

In the first stave, Dickens tries to point out that Scrooge is a character that society considers negative. In the introduction,

He expresses change and vows to become a better person. Pg. 116 “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew... Some people laughed to see the alternation in him, but he let them laugh... His own heart laughed; and that was quite enough for him.” The technique used is repetition to emphasize Scrooge’s transformation. Scrooge repents selfishness of his way of life and devotes to have a charitable heart and live his life fulfilled with joy and surrounded by people. Page 110 shows an example of personification, “I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, the present and the future. The spirits of all Three shall strive within me.” Scrooge repents the selfish life he once invested in when he realised that being a miser caused him to miss out on the most important and pleasurable part of living.

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

Ebenezer Scrooge is the major character in the story, A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is about how a “cold-hearted, tight fisted, selfish” money grabbing man is offered an opportunity of a life time, to change his behaviour, attitude... to have a second chance in life.

Which ghost influenced Scrooge to change the most? The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come definitely helps Ebeneezer Scrooge the most to become a better man. In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, he starts out as a grumpy old man that hates Christmas. Three ghosts visit and show him his Christmas past, present, and future, influencing him to change. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come helped him change in many different ways.

This first stave of the book discusses about the hatred that Scrooge has for Christmas and everyone. Some evidence that Scrooge had a hatred for Christmas is on page 6. He says, “What’s the point of being merry,” and “ Christmas time is a time for paying bills without money.” Another quote from Scrooge is, “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.” On page 11, there is another quote of hatred from Scrooge saying, “If they would rather die, they have better do it.” These were a few of the many quotes, in A Christmas Carol.

Title: Change in A Christmas carol Change can either be good or bad depending on what the change is. In Scrooge And Marley: A Christmas carol, Scrooge is sent three ghosts from Jacob Marley that helps him change. After being reformed by the spirits of Christmas Scrooge becomes friendly, nice, generous, considerate, and an all around great person. First, The Ghost of Christmas Present retaught Scrooge the generosity and respect he had to know long ago. The spirit had shown Scrooge when his old boss Fizziwig through an enormous party.

To start off, Scrooge becomes kind as a result of the visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past. This spirit presents to Scrooge a scene with Fezziwig, his old mentor, and Dick, his old colleague. On page 225, paragraph 83 of scene five,”It isn’t that! It isn’t that, Spirit. Fezziwig had the power to make us happy or unhappy, make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. I would just like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now, that’s all!” Scrooge realizes that his experience with Fezziwig was only pleasurable because his mentor made it so. After living this memory again, he decides that

In Stave III of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge confronts the Ghost of Christmas Present for supposedly wanting businesses closed on the Sabbath. As a result, the text shifts from its secularized nature into a more religious tone. This change signifies that another transformation is taking place; Scrooge’s attitude and presence is becoming more ideal to the other individuals in the text. However, in Dickens’s efforts of implying that Scrooge is improving his holiday spirit, the text also implies that Scrooge is not a spiritual individual towards the beginning of the story. On the other hand, Scrooge agrees to remember the Ghost of Christmas Present’s statement, which represents Scrooge giving himself to a higher power. Dickens protest of the Anglican

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Charles Dickens work A Christmas Carol features Ebeneezer Scrooge a wealthy businessman and member of the upper-class during the victorian era who is cold, selfish, and unkind to the rest of the world. On Christmas eve Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, one of Christmas past, one of Christmas present, and one of Christmas yet to come. The ghosts try to persuade him to change by showing him who he has been, who he is and what will happen if he does not change. Scrooge’s clerk Bob Cratchit is the polar opposite of Scrooge not only because he is happier but he also because he is poor. He and his family are a typical lower class family in Victorian times. They are a large family with very little money and most of them have jobs to help out the family. Charles Dickens uses the the Cratchit family as a representation of lower-class families during the Victorian era through their interactions with the rich, Tiny Tim’s

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol takes the reader on a journey to find out how the main character, Scrooge, transforms from a life of anger and cruelty to a life of love and kindness. Throughout the novel Scrooge saw himself in the past, present and future. These aberrations touched him deeply and forced him to undergo change for the good of himself and others. Because Scrooge was able to experience the company of the ghosts of christmas past, present and future he positively changed his attitude and his outlook on life.