‘I wear the chain I forged in life… I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.’ - Marley, A Christmas Carol Introduction There are many theories that people have as to why Scrooge is so cruel and terrible in, “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley,” but I think that one theory in particular stands out among all the other and really does make sense. Not only is it reasonable, but it has evidence to back up why Scrooge acts the way he does now: his father’s anger issues must have made his childhood really, truly terrible and traumatic. Maybe his father’s anger has influenced him to act the same way, or maybe he wants people to feel how he did when he was a child so that …show more content…
Spending Christmas alone must have been really sad and lonely for Scrooge, since he didn’t have any friends at the boarding school. In the play, when Scrooge relives that moment in his past, he remembers how lonely and sad he was that Christmas, and he immediately becomes sad himself as he remembers that moment. One example of this is in Act 1, Scene 5, the text says: ‘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, a void.’ (Horovitz 760) It is clear from the way Scrooge falls to the ground, crying, that he is feeling immense pain from seeing his younger self suffer, all alone at boarding school, when no one came to pick him up for Christmas break. Then a few lines under this excerpt, Scrooge says: ‘It’s me. [Pauses; weeps] Poor boy. He lived inside his head… alone… [Pauses; weeps] poor boy. [Pauses; stops his weeping] I wish… [Dries his eyes on his cuff] ah! It’s too late!’ (Horovitz 760) Scrooge must have realized that his past has changed him at the point where he says: ‘I wish… ah! It’s too late!’ (Horovitz 760) and then continued to tell The Ghost of Christmas Past an example of how he treated a little boy cruelly last night
If Scrooge did not change his mean old ways, then he is only to look
In the beginning of the play in spite of being selfish Scrooge is also cheap, cold-hearted, and cruel. Scrooge behaves in this manner to his nephew, Fred. One way of proving this is when Fred said “Merry Christmas.” Scrooge replied salty saying “Humbug Christmas is just a time for spending and wasting money.” Not only he treats Fred badly but many more people. For instance take one of his quotes towards the Gentleman Visitor, “Are there no Jails for the poor, are there no
In the play, Mr. Scrooge is a greedy man who thinks Christmas is “Bah Humbug!” (Dickens 3). His family has always wanted him to join them for a Christmas feast, but Mr. Scrooge has never wanted anything to do with Christmas. Marley, Mr. Scrooge’s old business partner, didn’t want Mr. Scrooge to end up like him with chains of greed attached to him when he died, so he sent Mr. Scrooge three spirits: Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Those three spirits visited each day to haunt him about his Christmases. Eventually, he traveled with two of the three spirits, but when the spirit of Christmas Future arrived, Mr. Scrooge realized that he would die in a few years. Ebenezer begged for mercy and promised to celebrate Christmas with joy and festivity. (Dickens 7-32) After the haunting with the spirits, Mr. Scrooge woke up and asked a boy what day it was. When the little boy, Adam, replied that it was Christmas, he ordered the boy
The novel introduces Scrooge as a man of greed. This is shown in the first stave when Scrooge's clerk Bob Cratchit can barely keep warm by such a small fire "that it looked like one coal." Because of Scrooge's greed, he insists on storing up on his wealth by burning less coal, despite it's lack of warmth. Furthermore, one can notice Scrooge's greed as he refuses to give any donation from his surplus wealth to the poor and destitute that the collectors were raising money for. Scrooge's selfish response to the collectors was, " 'I wish to be left alone...I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry..."
When we first met Scrooge, we are informed, and also observe that he is cold, miserly, and bitter. However, after the visit of the Ghost of Christmas future, Scrooge changes into a generous and cheerful man. It is clear that something must have caused a man who is really nice, turn into a mean and nasty person, in this case it was the Industrial Revolution.
When the Ghost of Past Christmas shows Scrooge his childhood, appears according to David. E Robinson, “the Romantic conception of childhood as a special spiritual state of innocence.” (2). It didn’t exist in Victorian times, children who did not belong to an upper class were sent to work and forced to be adults.
Obviously, Scrooge had a bad life but, he fixed it .Luckily, not everyone has to go though this horrible time. Scrooge is just a character but, things like this are very realistic and can happen to people.This experience helped Scrooge so much and made him realize the meaning of life.This also got his life back on track. This is why present influenced Scrooge the most. Just imagine if this happen to people all the time, don't let it
Scrooge approached the door, but didn't have a speck of knowledge of what's going to happen next. When Scrooge is about to open the door, his old friend, Marley, and worker appeared on the door knocker in surprise. Scrooge walked in his dark house with a little fear, still think it is just, humbug. His mind resolute to playing tricks, he thought. Christmas eve, A night to fear, yet to thank. Life can change in a matter of minutes. In the story, “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley. Scrooge faces a series of turning points that altered his life forever. In this Exploratory essay, Three turning point will be talked about. Each one with a different ghost, Past, Present, and future. Each with a different lesson Scrooge has to face.
On page 64, we see how Scrooge shows sympathy in the quote, “There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something. That 's All.” After being shown a memory of himself as a boy, Scrooge regrets being harsh to the boy caroling and not giving him any money. Seeing his own sadness as a child made him realize it would have been nice to give the boy something to make him happy. He will probably do nicer things in the future because he now realizes that the boy would have been upset because of how Scrooge turned him away so harshly. He is changing his actions, and regretting bad actions in the past. He wants to fix what he did wrong, and he feels sympathy for the boy. People want to be shown compassion, so in the future if he helps people out and is kind, he will not be as isolated. Another quote to show how he becomes less detached from humanity is on pages 92-93, ‘”Spirit,” said Scrooge, “Tell me if Tiny Tim will live.” Scrooge feels sorry for Bob Cratchit because the spirit says if the future remains unaltered he will die. He feels upset that Tiny Tim will die, and sympathy for Bob because his son will probably die. He probably regrets not giving Bob more time with his son. He had made a comment earlier that if someone will die they better go and die to decrease the population, when the donation collector
At first glance, Ebenezer Scrooge is a strange man. In his old age, he lives alone in a manor that was once owned by his deceased business partner, the only person he ever interacted with. His thoughts are always cruel and thoughtless as it is displayed when Scrooge says, “ 'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population' ”(10). At the story's start, Scrooge is an antisocial person who avoids interactions with people claiming that they are useless. He is viewed by others as a demeaning figure who is to be shunned because of his uninviting manner. People who were content with their lives were surrounded by their peers and neighbors and never encour...
Well In A Christmas carol Scrooge and Marley “Act 1” and “Act 2” this is just the case where he is visited by something, rather quite frightful, but actually quite delightful. As Scrooge was one of the most horrendous people alive, but he will soon go under a miracle like transformation after meeting Four new people who shift him into third gear and make him drive to his destiny. As it was stated in the text Marley came to visit him to give him his warning of a doomed fate which he has forged for himself. Thus, making the presence of the other spirits horrific to him, but they do make persuade him to shift his way out of the way he is going and enjoy life for what it
Scrooge was a terrible, terrible man. However, after a fantastic night of visions, he transforms into a better man. Patrick T. Reardon wrote in the National Catholic Reporter, that “A Christmas Carol isn’t about a sinner. It’s about a sinner who goes through a conversion experience. (Reardon, Patrick T. "The conversion of St. Scrooge." National Catholic Reporter, 18 Dec. 2015) He says that we are all like Scrooge, and we all have our Bah Humbug experiences; and like Scrooge, we need a conversion in some way. Scrooge is in all of us, but it’s what we do to try and change ourselves that’s makes the story have a happy
During the story, Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts from Christmas past, present, and future, who shows the ill-tempered Scrooge how to be feel compassion towards others human beings. A large quantity of the story revolves around money, and it plays a large role, to contrast how generosity is viewed in society. Scrooge is incredibly wealthy, as he lives a l...
In this extract we are presented with a solitary gentleman named Scrooge. We see that he has an icy and criticising demeanour and his personality warns all human contact to keep its distance. But we also learn he enjoys this wants to keep it that way. This and all the other clues lead us to believe that Scrooge is an outsider, a miser and in general a mean human being that no-one likes or wants to talk to.
According to the text, Scrooge is such a miser that when his partner, Jacob Marley passed away, he didn’t spend the money to change the business sign outside their production to reflect his partner’s death, instead he left the sign to swing alone mysteriously camouflaging Marley’s passing. In the reading, his nephew, Fred, comes to invite Scrooge to Christmas dinner with his family, Scrooge, in turn responds, “Bah! Humbug! The text describes Scrooge as a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. Based on what I have read in the text, foreign heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge, he was a man whom felt no warmth or wintry climate, even the winds of the winter chill did not affect his inner self or his outermost surroundings. The text states that Scrooge is all head, no heart, a miserable, bitter old miser.