Scrooge should change his ways for many reasons. Scrooge has a very bad life and will always be that way unless he changes. Scrooge can be nice or be happy at least instead of being bad and mean. Other people should not be treated bad just because they like something Scrooge doesn’t like.
One reason is for Scrooge to like Christmas and be kind to people who likes Christmas. Scrooge should have a good spirit to like Christmas, but Scrooge has a bad spirit. People that like Christmas has a good spirit. Scrooge could have a good year when he has a good spirit. Scrooge can have a wonderful year celebrating Christmas, but Scrooge really don’t like Christmas and tells everyone that talks about Christmas to leave.
Scrooge should not be mean to
Dickens displays guilt as the main form of how Scrooge’s character develops into a compassionate person by the end of the novella. As Scrooge feels this quilt, it's purely based on the visions that the ghosts provide which further causes Scrooge to realise the consequences of his actions. His alienation from specific characters that he used to love such as Belle, “...has displaced me…” whom left Scrooge, due to his desire for money and wealth which grew. This desire grows with him as he is rejecting the christmas joy and spirit as he continuously states that Christmas is a “humbug,” but by stating this it provides comparison. Dickens depicts that Scrooge has become a better person because of fear but in the end he has become kinder. As the
Scrooge was and owner of a factory and made a whole bunch of money, but he did not care about anyone else. “Merry Christmas said his nephew, what right do have to be merry you are poor enough”. This shows that scrooge is mean to family and does not care about Christmas.
If Scrooge did not change his mean old ways, then he is only to look
Another way to show this is the way he talks to people, e.g. when his
In Conclusion, in the 1st Stave Dickens presents Scrooge as an evil, aged, prosperous man. As you read the Staves 2, 3 and 4, Scrooge’s behaviour, thoughts and attitude changes gradually. In Stave 2 a quote to show how shrude Scrooge is 'All he could make out was that it was still very foggy and extremely cold' this shows that Scrooge is an unpleasant ‘a covetous sinner’. This has an effect upon the reader as it shows how the cold weather can hurt and be distasteful to people just like Scrooge. Scrooge is described as the weather as he is like it; he hurts the people around him. Finally, in the 4th Stave he changes and he admits it, here is a quote “Spirit!'' he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “hear me! I am not the man I was.” This shows Scrooge is pleading that he has changed. I think he has transformed because of the experience he had by the four spirits.
He is like Victor and chooses to be isolated for how he treated others. For example, Scrooge says, “I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry” (Dickens 16). Scrooge is showing the reader that he is an ungrateful and a non-friendly man. The author wants us to know that he has no Christmas sprit and is selfish man that is also very stingy with his money. He also is rude to the people that come to his store. Charles Dickens describes him in A Christmas Carol as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel has ever struck generous fire; secret, and self contained, and solitary as an oyster” (Dickens 12). This description of Scrooge shows that he is a very negative person, that chooses to isolate himself, and keeps things all to himself. He does not care about anyone other than money and himself. He loves money and also watching his clerk; “the door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk” (Dickens 13). Scrooge was always watching what his clerk was doing; he was not a friendly guy. There is an example of this in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein also, where Victor was being watched constantly by the monster, everything victor did the monster was watching. Scrooge
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.
In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality of Scrooge also show you how he was at the beginning of the novella in the 1st Stave to how he changes at the end in the 5th Stave.
Throughout this stave, Scrooge goes around and spreads the Christmas cheer. First, he goes and buys the biggest turkey, for Bob Cratchit and his family. Next, as we walks to his nephew's house, he gives money to the carolers, as well as the needy. When he gets to his nephew's house, he apologies for what he had done, and decides to spend Christmas dinner with them. And finally, when Bob Cratchit comes to work that day, Scrooge doubles Bob’s pay, so he can give more to his family. In conclusion, Scrooge surprised everyone with his Christmas cheer, and I think made everyone around him Christmas, a lot
Even a selfish person can change and become generous, whether through supernatural events, physical events, or through their own will. Ebenezer Scrooge learns that he must either repent of his greedy ways, or face the consequence later on. When Scrooge is visited by the first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas past, he is shown events from his boyhood that he had forgotten about for many years. This makes Scrooge emotional, as it brings back the memories of himself, poor and forgotten. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge the happiness and merrimaking of Christmas. Even those who were poor and had scarcely any food made the most of it, and were very joyful and kind to one another. The last of the spirits, the
Gilgamesh's and Scrooges' Character Changes. The character Gilgamesh from Epic of Gilgamesh and the character Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol grow during their respective storylines and experience a number of character changes. Through a series of trials, one sees both. Gilgamesh and Scrooge transform from powerful but selfish individuals to beings.
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
Although he didn’t reach this point his business partner Jacob Marley did. When Marley died he had to wear a chain link for every bad deed he did. So his punishment was bearing the weight of his actions. Scrooge was also headed down this path but lucky for him Marley and the ghosts helped him to shun his path. The ghost of Christmas yet to come showed him the reaction of people when Scrooge was going to die. This was one of consequences, since he was mean and cold-hearted to everyone people seemed happy and joyous at the fact of his death. Some people said they would only go to his funeral if there was food and because they could wear their fancy black gloves. “It's likely to be a very cheap funeral,'' said the same speaker; ``for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?'' ``I don't mind going if a lunch is provided,'' observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose.” In the end though Scrooge was able to shun his path and started treating people kinder with more respect. His was able to change his attitude towards people from being rude and nasty to being kind and found that people liked him a lot better that
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.