A morality play, not unlike some of the popular plays I have seen. I think we all have seen this familiar theme many times over the years. As we head into the Christmas season, where reflective thinking becomes this very theme. I can compare this play with some of these seasonal plays. The play that comes to my mind immediately is, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. This theme of reviewing ones life as we are approached by death or the impending visit of death is very recognizable. Scrooge is visited by the spirit of Marley in the Dickens play and told of his impending doom. "Everyman" is visited by the spirit of death and told of his impending doom. The twist here is that Scrooge can do something about it if he just wakes up, "Everyman" has already dug his grave, so to speak. As this is an opinion paper, I think that in both of these cases a man, or "Everyman", is confronted with his own ending and because of this he is going back to review the events in his life. How has he done? What has he done? Is what or how or when been in line with what God thinks as a moral and r...
The movie Four Christmases has two main characters are Vince Vaughn (Brad) and Reese Witherspoon (Kate). This movie is about an unmarried couple that has no plans of getting married or having children anytime soon. Every Christmas they plan an adventurous vacation for the two of them. They do this to avoid going to all of their families’ houses for the holiday. This year Kate and Brad planned to go to Fiji for vacation, but the weather took a turn for the worst and they weren’t able to go. Due to the weather, their flight got cancelled. The news caught them on live television alerting their families that they were now available for Christmas. Both Brad and Kate’s families are divorced, so there were four families to visit. They plan
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.
“Bah Humbug!” (Dickens 3) To some people, money is their only thought in life, or in other words, they’re greedy. He or she would need a life lesson to allow their mind to set straight on what’s right and what’s wrong. In A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, you see a man named Ebenezer Scrooge, who lives out as the person getting a lesson by play and movie. Sounding different, yet the same story, these two do have some minor differences, as well as major similarities in the climax, conflict, and resolution.
The theme of social responsibility in A Christmas Carol is played out in various aspects throughout the story, it truly is a underlying subject of the entire novella. In the third chapter, we begin to see Scrooge have a change of heart as he begins to understand his own responsibilities in regards to the poor and those feelings are projected onto the audience. The Ghost of Christmas Present used Scrooges own words against him to help bring about the change; for example, when the ghost reminds him of when the people asked him for a charitable donation for those in poverty, Scrooge told them that, “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population” (Dickens, pg. 6); the Ghost used this same statement when
The review was written by Nicole Hertvik on November 30, 2016 on the play “A Christmas Carol located at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. In this review she rated the play 5 stars for
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966&2000) explains not only the life of the Grinch but the Whos as well. Through the theorists of Karen Horney and Erik Erikson, viewers can learn why the Grinch’s personality is formed. Not only had it formed, but through the years it transformed.
Choices. Decisions. You make them everyday. You might think some are trivial, but all of them are equally important. No matter how big, no matter how small, your choices are important and can impact your life….and in some cases, make you the best person you can be. In “A Christmas Carol” by O. Henry, Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser and hoards his money. He doesn’t like the holidays, and the spirit surrounding it. His friend Marley, long deceased, tells him he will be visited by 3 ghosts. The 3 ghosts show him his Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Seeing what happened, Scrooge’s opinion about the holidays changed for the better and he is now enthusiastic about the holidays. In “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry, the main character Jimmy
At the beginning of stave four a ghost, presumably of the ghost of Christmas future, approached Scrooge saying nothing and yet Scrooge is feeling uneasy and terrified of this ghost while knowing what it’s going to do. The apparition does nothing until Scrooge asks if he will show him the future after Christmas so in turn the ghost nods its’ head ever so slightly to where you can see that it did. They awkwardly do nothing for a moment before the phantom points his hand forward and Scrooge responds for him to lead onward so the ghost moves backwards and he follows the specter which transports him to the city where only he can see and hear the people but they can’t see or hear him. The phantasm stops Scrooge next to a group of businessmen talking about an elderly person who apparently had a vast quantity of money saved up.
“After the passing of the Great Reform Bill, the liberal Whig leadership struck a snag. Several years of depression put the conservative Tories back in power in 1841. Wages and living conditions grew steadily worse as the industrial revolution permitted the rise of great fortunes for owners and employers along with starvation and poverty for great numbers of the working classes.” (Earl Davis, The Flint and the Flame, Page 115)
Indeed the night was grey, just like every other December 23; a twinkle in the star stared at Vince as the wind whistled past his ears. Soon enough, the moon went to sleep and slowly disappeared into the rising sun.
“You’ll shoot your eye out kid, merry Christmas. Ho Ho Ho.” is probably one of the most popular lines of the 1983 Christmas classic, A Christmas Story, written by Jean Shepherd. According to The State Newspaper web site, “A Christmas Story is a low budget movie about a sort of dysfunctional family.” (Bryant) It is a dysfunctional tale about a nine year old boy named Ralphie growing up in 1940’s Indiana dreaming of the perfect Christmas gift, a Red Rider 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. His parents, teacher and even Santa Clause believe otherwise. They all respond with “You’ll shoot your eye out!” Ralphie is determined to get his BB gun for Christmas. Along with the campaign for the BB gun, Ralphie and friends are typical kids. Each day from school they run away from a bully, Scott Farkus, a kid with “yellow eyes.” They even go as far as “triple dog daring” one of their best friends to stick his tongue to a frozen flag pole.
In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a transformation as a result of his encounters with three ghosts and becomes a kind, happy, and generous man. His greedy, cruel, and grumpy demeanor is replaced seemingly overnight, but he doesn’t just wake up and decide to be nice. It takes three Spirits to change his outlook on life - The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future. The Ghost of Christmas Past makes Scrooge begin to regret his selfishness, and the Ghost of Christmas Present begins to teach him about others. This second Ghost helps to make him realize that money doesn't buy happiness. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, however, teaches the most profound lesson of all: unless he changes, no one will care if Scrooge dies. Because of the Ghosts, by Christmas morning Ebenezer Scrooge is a completely different person from the man who went to bed on Christmas Eve.
Like maybe someone helped you out when you needed help? Or someone loved died, that changed your life? I think the thesis is that death, a gift, and/or being nice can cause a significant change in someone’s life.
(I love money also I love everything about money. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. –Steve Martin.) That is a quote about some one spending money on stuff that you do not need. In the Christmas Carol the main character scrooge is a mean old grummpy man who only cared about himself. C.S. Lewis said that “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.¨ Temptations are something you want very bad but you can not
by people as a bitter old man, as when he walks down the street people