In the fictional play, A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, by Israel Horovitz, Scrooge’s first impression is not very good. He refuses to donate to the poor, he dismisses family who want a relationship, and he is miserable and tries to make others the same way. When two men come to see Scrooge, they were asking for donations for the poor. Scrooge, being one of the wealthiest people in the community, is very dismissive, wrongfully so, and asks the two men to leave empty handed. When Scrooge asks if there are workhouses for the poor to go to, the men explain that most people would rather die than to go there. In response Scrooge states, “If they would rather die, than they had better do it and decrease the surplus in population.” (649) When …show more content…
First, Scrooge is taken to when he was a little boy and still in school. He is shown himself when his sister comes to see him and tells him that he is able to come home. He remembers how much he loved his sister and the Ghost of Christmas Past reminds him that she had a child, his nephew. Scrooge regrets the way he treated him earlier and now knows he should have been kinder. Next, he sees a young version of himself at work, working for Fezziwig as an apprentice. He remembers how much he enjoyed working for him and realizes how he treats Bob Cratchit. He realized that he needs to treat Bob with the same respect that Fezziwig gave him. Lastly, he is taken back to when his ex-fiance is breaking up with him. He watches with horror as she lists all the reasons why the relationship would not work out. When his fiance stops speaking and is heading for the door, he pleads to his younger self not to let her go, and not to be such a fool, but it was no use as he was technically not there and not able to be heard. All of these scenarios show that Ebeneezer is on the road to becoming a kinder person, but we still know he is not quite there yet. I know this because when speaking to ghost of Christmas Present he says, “I went forth last night on compulsion, and learnt a lesson which is working now. Tonight, if you aught to teach me, let me profit by it.” (664) This …show more content…
He is taken to the streets of his town. Scrooge sees three businessmen discussing his funeral. They say that they thought he would never die. They also say that they will only go to his funeral if there is food there, but if there is no food they don't plan on attending. Nor, do they even think that there will be a funeral because there will be no one willing to pay for it because he was such an awful person. Scrooge is unable to put two and two together to figure out that this was what was going to happen to him. He thought that they were talking about his ex business partner, James Marley. Next, Scrooge sees people discussing things that they would want to sell for money. They then begin discussing how they had taken it off dead Scrooge’s body after he had died. They explain how they had taken the very clothes he was wearing right off of his back and just left him there. They took everything they thought they could make money off of. Scrooge, while watching the scene, realizes that this is an awful thing to happen to someone, but still does not understand that it is him that they are talking about. Finally, Scrooge is taken to his grave with the Ghost Of Christmas Future. The ghost points at the grave and gestures for him to get in it. Scrooge pleads, and pleads with the spirit to allow him to live, and after a while of begging, the ghost shakes a little bit and puts his finger down. “Spirit, this is a
After the previous spirit disappeared, Scrooge looks up to find the final spirit, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The phantom remains silent and simply takes Scrooge toward the city, where they eavesdrop on a few conversations between people. One of them was between two men who were talking about how someone had recently died. They retorted about how nobody liked the man and, consequently, they expected nobody to show up to the funeral. The twain continued to another pair of businessmen who had also heard the news that someone had died, but did not care. Scrooge, oblivious as to who they were talking about, tries to ask the spirit some questions, in which the spirit doesn’t respond. The phantom just drags Scrooge to a nearly abandoned
During the other stave’s scrooge is learning more how to be nice and care for others but he is still not at his full potential. Scrooge meets 3 ghost. Ghost of Christmas past, ghost of Christmas present, and ghost of Christmas yet to come.
He first visits Scrooge in Stave II, page 18, startling him. This young and elderly figure represents memory. The spirit takes Scrooge on a journey of past Christmases that have been celebrated. The ghost tries to make Scrooge realize how much he has changed from when he was young till now. It is shown that Scrooge has slowly shifted his attention from people to profit.
Just like the play, Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in the story. He is a mean, cold-hearted man that has no Christmas spirit whatsoever. All that Scrooge cares about and will ever care about is his wealth until he is taken on a journey. He is lead by 3 ghosts of his past, present, and future as he was in the play. These ghosts show him what Christmas spirit is and try to force it upon him. All of this finally hits him once he is taken to the future and witnesses his own grave. Scrooge pleads for a second chance to change his bad ways. Once he wakes up in his bedroom after all of this craziness, he jumps for joy and makes many new friends while mending with some old friends. He fixes many of his wrongs and lives out the rest of his life as a happier, friendlier, and a generous
Scrooge is just a normal guy who went to border school when he was a kid. He didn’t spend to much time with his family. He only got to see them on Holidays. Now, he is a grumpy old man.
The Ghost takes him to the Cratchit's house first. At the house, Scrooge sees a lot. He sees that Tiny Tim is hurt and he wants to know why. The Ghost tells him that Tiny Tim has a disease and that he doesn't have enough to eat so it just gets worst and worst. Scrooge is curious about why Tiny Tim doesn't eat that much. The Ghost of Christmas Present tells Scrooge that because you only give Bob Cratchit 15 shillings he can only provide so much for his family. Scrooge started feeling so guilty because he knows he has the power to give more money to the Cratchits. Mr. Cratchit gives a toast about Scrooge and Mrs. Cratchit got upset because Scrooge has done nothing to help this family. Bob Cratchit defends Scrooge and says that he still believes in Scrooge. Scrooge feels guilty because after all that could and has happened Bob Cratchit still believes in him. The Ghost then takes Scrooge to see his nephew Fred. Everyone in the room with him is saying mean and cruel things about Scrooge and Fred defends him. He stands up for him and shows that he still believes in him. Scrooge feels really guilty because both of these people still believe in him and all he does is treat them
Ebenezer was in his house sitting in his chair eating soup when he heard weird sounds. It was the Ghost of Christmas past that came to visit him first on Christmas eve.The Christmas ghost was wearing a white-robed when he came.On his hand he had blazing light. The past Christmas ghost took Ebenezer back into time. The ghost took Scrooge through the different stage in his life.The ghost is showing Scrooge
He is now giving and nice to others. Scrooge was very self-centered but then changed his ways and now cares about others feelings. Scrooge was grumpy all of the time, but at the end he jumped out of bed very excited that it was Christmas and that he was going to celebrate Christmas with Bob Cratchit and his family. Ebenezer was giving at the end of the story, he gave poor kids money, and helped save the Cratchits. We don't really know if he stayed that way, he changed because if he didn’t he would have died. Scrooge changed his ways even though he acted like he was a bad person that makes him a dynamic character. I think that no matter how bad, rude, and awful you are you can always change because you control yourself. You can make a choice to be kind or not. Scrooge needed to realize what he was doing to himself in order to change and be kind to other
When Scrooge awakens in his own bed alive he realizes what he must do to change his and the future of others. Scrooge sends “the prize turkey” to the Crathchit’s house for their Christmas dinner. Scrooge would have never been that courteous to anyone before the spirits helped him change his ways into a nicer man. Scrooge also assists the Cratchit’s in with financial aid they need by raising Bob’s salary. Because Scrooge helped the Cratchit family they were able to keep Tiny Tim alive. Scrooge realized that helping others is much better than being selfish and stingy. If you help others you can make yourself feel better and you are also making others feel better.
The next day Scrooge woke up. He remembered Marley’s ghost and wondered if it was just a dream. He did remember that the next ghost would come today at one o'clock, so he decided to wait. When the clock struck one light flashed in the room and a figure drew back the curtains of his bed. The spirit like a child but at the same time an old man with long white hair from age. But did not have a single wrinkle. It was the ghost of Christmas past. He had showed Scrooge a memory of his childhood. He was a young bo...
In the script Ebeneezer Scrooge is a man of greed. He wants nothing to do with anything except for money. His life was hard because nobody liked him except his nephew whom he was a jerk to him. His old business partner Jacob Marley, who had recently passed away, visited him(Dickens 8) and told him three ghost’s were going to come and show him his Christmas past, present, and future. Each time they would visit him he would get wiser and wiser.
During the month of December scrooge as all grumpy and moody, he is just a mad man who really do not like to be bothered by people. Christmas he does not like the holiday because it is to joy full to him and does not matter to him. Scrooge as terrible person when it comes to being joyful. Scrooge tells a lot of people to leave him alone and also, his quote is ¨good afternoon¨, he always say. People get on with there lives as what he say. I should be alone and do not bother me, these holidays are pointless to me. There is no meaning of these such things.
On the night of Christmas Eve Scrooge arrives home to see his doorknocker turn into his late coworker Marley. This shakes Scrooge but he dismisses it. When Scrooge arrives to his room the ghost of Marley
The story of A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is one that mostly everyone is familiar with. It airs during the holidays in an enormous amount of variations. The basis of each variation is the same. Ebenezer Scrooge, our main character, is a cold hearted man. It is Christmas Eve, and as Scrooge is closing his office his nephew comes in to wish him a Merry Christmas. Scrooge, being as “cold” as he is, just thinks that Christmas is a time where people spend money. Scrooge lives alone. His business partner, Jacob Marley has been dead for seven years. Scrooge prepares for bed and all of the unused bells in his house start to ring. The ghost of his deceased coworker, dressed in chains, cash boxes, keys, etc., shows up in Scrooge’s room. He sits down and tells Scrooge how during his lifetime he never did anything good for anyone else. So now in his death, he has to constantly travel with no sleep and no relief from the horror of the guilt that he is feeling. Marley says that Scrooge has a chance to turn his life around and that he will be visited by three spirits who will show him how to do so. They will all appear within a stroke of each other, and Marley is gone. Each ghost represents a different point in Scrooge’s life; the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. After the events that have occurred that night, Scrooge comes to the realization that he can change. Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart for the holiday, Christmas, and he never goes back to his old ways. (Goldstein 1).
Scrooge, unknowing of it, was a churlish, insolent man, who swindled the poor for their money. Moreover, he was quite uncharitable and selfish, as well that he would not give to the less fortunate. For instance, Scrooge stated that the poor should be put