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    How does one compare a play and a movie when both are based off of a book? The book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, has had many adaptations by aspiring producers and writers. One of these includes a 1984 adaptation under the same name starring George C Scott as the famed character Scrooge. Another of these adaptations is a live production; a play called A Christmas Carol as well, performed by the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire. A play and a movie are very different of course;

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    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. He is a lonely, money-loving, greedy man.There are many versions of Mr. Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, but in this essay only e two of them will be used, the drama and the 1984 film. There is many similarities and very few differences in the drama and the film. In the movie, Scrooge is first presented in his shop. His Nephew drops by and wishes him a merry Christmas. Scrooge states that anybody who celebrates Christmas is a bah Humbug, like Christmas.(Film 1984) Scrooge

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    Audio or Play? The Christmas Carol is an exciting tale about an old greedy miser that gets visited by three christmas spirits - Past,Present,and Future. In class,we listened to the audio version and we also read the play. Each person got to read a part in the play if they wanted. Then we would listen to the audio. The play version of “A Christmas Carol” is better than the audio because I can visualize the characters,imagine the actions, and hear the tone of voice. One reason that the play is much

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    I felt that the movie of “A Christmas Carol” was very well performed and presented and that is why I believe the film version was better. Although the film version and the written version were very much alike they also were different. The film version was a lot differently set up and had a higher effect on the viewer than the written version. The film and the written version of “A Christmas Carol” were very much alike, but had some differences. The two forms of this story were extremely similar

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    or bad. In The Christmas Carol Scrooge's individual impact in the story is bad. In the novel The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the character traits Selfishness, Greed, and Joyfulness have the greatest impact on society in the novel. First, selfishness impacted society when Scrooge turned down the generous men raising charity for the poor who can't buy meat and water. Scrooge said to the gentleman “ If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with this Merry Christmas

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    The story “A Christmas Carol” is the story of a man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who despises Christmas and everything it stands for. The story has various cause and effect scenarios in which Scrooge eventually sees the error of his ways and comes to terms with the fact that whatever made him hate Christmas to begin with is not worth hating now. Scrooge was a very cruel man throughout a majority of the story, but as the story went on, things began to change. For starters, his reason for not liking the Christmas

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    O’ Come All Ye Faithful?: Is A Christmas Carol Movie Faithful to the Book Often film can stay faithful to a novel.In some cases a film departs from the original. There have been many adaptations of the story, A Christmas Carol, to film. Appearing in 1843, A Christmas Carol was created by Charles Dickens. The story has endured, teaching themes such as: family and friends are the meaning of life, it is greater to give than receive, and money doesn’t buy happiness. In 2009, Disney released an animated

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    Imagine a staged production of A Christmas Carol set in 1843. See the stage set in the exact time it was written by Charles Dickens. The foggy, crowded streets abuzz with carolers and shoppers, the children staring wide eyed into the shops and bakeries. Hear the bells ringing as a round of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” fills the gaslit streets with joy. As a child, going to see A Christmas Carol was one of my fondest Christmas memories. To witness Scrooge 's’ transformation from a mean, greedy old

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    Instantly after reading A Christmas Carol your immersion is brought to the message Dickens was projecting; which is to be kind to others. When watching the muppet version of A Christmas Carol you can distinguish many similarities as well as differences with the two versions. Here are some differences discovered between the book and the movie. In the scene where Scrooge meets the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley, there are very noticeable alterations. In the movie Scrooge is visited

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    A Christmas Carol “Bah! Humbug,” as Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge would say in the famous drama and movie A Christmas Carol. Both the drama and the movie have similarities to each other, but they also have some differences. Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character, is a bitter old miser, who, involuntarily, re-encounters his past, sees other’s current Christmas happiness, and the sadness and grief that people very close to him will confront in the future. The grief he relives throughout the journeys cause him

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