What Is A Christmas Carol

The author illustrates that Scrooge who is depicted as "hard and sharp as a flint" is a greedy miser whom is so old and coldhearted that nothing other than his profits will phase him. Dickens uses the scene when the ghost of Christmas past, "a child-like old man" uses flashbacks to show Scrooge of the memories he once made to show the nature of the much younger character. This is evident when Fan "a little girl much younger than Scrooge" had brought out the affection of her older brother as they planned "to be together all the Christmas long, and have the merriest time in all the world." What is important about this example is not just that it shows the compassion Scrooge once felt but also that Scrooge is not truly crooked and horrible to the core establishing the uplifting and inspiring feeling to readers.

In A Christmas Carol, an allegory of spiritual values versus material ones, Charles Dickens shows Scrooge having to learn the lesson of the spirit of Christmas, facing the reality of his own callous attitude to others, and reforming himself as a compassionate human being. The reader is shown his harshness in the office, where he will not allow Bob Cratchit enough coal to warm his work cubicle and begrudges his employee a day off for Christmas, even claiming that his clerk is exploiting him. In the scene from the past at Fezziwig’s warehouse, Scrooge becomes aware of the actions of a conscientious, caring employer and feels his first twinge of conscience. The author suggests an origin for Scrooge’s indifference to others as Scrooge is portrayed as a neglected child, the victim of a harsh father intent on denying him a trip home for the holidays and only reluctantly relenting.

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.

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

Dickens indirectly characterizes Scrooge in many ways in A Christmas Carol. He does this by showing how greedy,hateful, and cold hearted scrooge is. The first way he characterizes Scrooge is by showing how cold hearted he is. In A Christmas Carol dicken describes how scrooge's heart has froze. Dicken states “The cold within him froze”(621). Scrooge's heart cold he is to everyone and everything. Scrooge is so cold that his heart has froze.Scrooge is so cold towards everyone and thinks there is no reason to be happy. Making christmas especially not important to Scrooge. Since christmas is a holiday to be happy Scrooge thinks christmas is a waste of time and their is no reason to be marry. This is indirect characterizes towards scrooge because he is cold hearted.

In the story A Christmas Carol it states (I will honor 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. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!) (Stave IV). He has a better attitude and it starts to make other people happy. In the story A Christmas Carol it states (No, no," said Scrooge, "I am in earnest. Go and buy it, and tell 'em to bring it here, that I may give them the direction where to take it. 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 half-a-crown!" The boy was off like a shot. He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half so fast.) (Stave V). The evidence explains how he is willing to give a lot of money to a

At first glance, you might think scrooge is and ordinary senior who owns a business and has quite a fortune, but once you look into his eyes you see how his soul is dark, small,crooked, shattered and beyond repair and clearly from a lost love. Might be the reason why he is so inconsiderate and he only cares about

Scrooge is a peculiar man , but the way he looks is not the brightest appearance in the world.Scrooge is an old man he has wrinkles , and gray hair . He is a grumpy , rude , and peculiar man.I think he kinda looks like he just came out of prison.He also wears round , gold glasses and he is always holding a feather with ink on it with a pice of paper always waiting to write something down that is negative or positive , but most of the time he is not very positive.He also usually wears a suit with no tie and a very heavy winter

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

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".

As the night darkens Scrooge will soon find out the true meaning of christmas. Scrooge, wwin the play A Christmas Carol, by Charles dickens is the main character in a story that follows the past of an ungrateful old man. When Scrooge is first introduced, he is disrespectful in the way he acts and the way he talks. However, at the end of the play he is cheerful in the way he treats and talks to the people around him. During the night Scrooge changes from disrespectful to cheerful, and in the process learns to cherish others.

When illustrating the features of Scrooge’s face as ’pointed noise, shrivelled cheek...grating voice’, Dickens forms it in a long sentence. This device slows down the pace of a previously quick tempered extract. It puts emphasis on every description made so that the reader can create a very detailed image in their head. In this long sentence there is also a glimpse of colour imagery, such as ‘eyes red...thin lips blue’. This tells the reader that Scrooge has such a cold hearted personality, that it is reflecting in his exterior. He was also detailed as a tight fisted hand at the

Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in the story “ A Christmas Carol” and he is not the nicest person either. He is an old man who owns a shop previously owned by his partner Marley, and after Marley’s death Scrooge consequently became a bitter person to most things, including normal emotions like happiness and joy, so needless to say he became angry and lonely. He also hates holidays but especially Christmas so when his nephew comes in talking about how great Christmas is Scrooge insults the holiday and his nephews spouse for getting married because they fell in love. When he goes home and looks through his door peephole and sees Marley consequently he then looks away and sees nothing. He is still skeptical upon entering the house. He searches

At the beginning of the performance, the audience could rapidly sense Scrooge’s negative attitude and personality. In the first scene, we see him sit in his desk and pretty much be rude and sour to everyone who came in contact with him. As he sat in his desk I noticed a sense of bounded flow and strong weight simply by his rigid posture and by his tense stage presence. Those two fighting efforts put him in an Adream State where we saw a mix of physical and emotional expression through the interactions with the other characters. As the scene went along, I could notice a