The Spirit of Christmas

In Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is visited by Three Spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In Stave IV Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and the spirit shows him a scene of Scrooge in the future. In this stave, Scrooge gets severely frightened at what his future might hold. The Ghost shows him is what will happen in Scrooge's future if he stays the way that he was at the beginning of the

In the story of A Christmas Carol Marley started out dead as a doornail and like normal Scrooge is an old bitter, greedy man who hates Christmas, feelings, love and happiness. People around him think that Scrooge is a pain and an unfriendly person to be around during the holidays. He always acted like an old sinner who doesn’t like anything. Nevertheless Scrooge is a tight fisted hand at the grindstone! Nobody really liked him because he never made friends and never really interacted with anyone

perspective, your own. Unfortunately, in the play A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge believes just this. Scrooge believes that the way he looks at life, at the poor, is the right way to look at life. He does not know that there is more than one way to look at life, most of all he believes there is only one correct way to look at reality. He is self-centered and unable to be sympathetic and has empathy. With the help of three Christmas spirits and his dead business partner Jacob Marley, Scrooge

the most famous words spoken by Charles Dickens main character in “A Christmas carol”. Scrooge is a greedy man whose life was changed by the visits of three spirits. Through the visitations of three spirits, Scrooge learned why he had become greedy, how much he missed out on by avoiding Christmas, and that he is capable of becoming a compassionate person who could make a difference in the lives of others. The Spirit of Christmas Past showed Scrooge visions from the past and how he became greedy

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

“ Spirit, hear me. I am not he man I was. I will not be the man I have been for so many years. Why show me all of this if I am past all hope? Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me. Let the boy live! 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.” (Scrooge, p.140). A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

transform into a warm hearted individual in a matter of twelve hours? This is a question that several of us asked ourselves while watching A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which is a story that takes place in 1843 where on Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts, starting with his old business partner, Jacob Marley. The three spirits show Scrooge, how his mean behaviour has affected those around him. At the end of the story he is relieved to discover that there is still

house, he turns out to be his deceased aged work partners ghost, Marley. According to the text, Scrooge questions Marley about why spirits walk the earth and why they are coming to him. Marley answers him with “ It is required of every man, that the spirit within him should walk

you had a chance to change your ways, would you? In the movie The Christmas Carol, a bad spirited man named Scrooge Ebenezer has one night to change his ways of being a mean man. Three spirits visit him during the night of Christmas Eve, the ghost of the past, the ghost of the present, and the ghost of the past. The thing is that if he does not find joy, a little boy named Tiny Tim will die. During the three time frames, the spirits show him things that have happened in the past, things that are going

During the book “The Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge changed very much, during the beginning of the book he was a cold hearted person but by the end of the book he was a jolly old man. The Christmas Carol started off with Scrooge at his business partner, Marley, funeral. It said that: “And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.” Scrooge