A Christmas Carol : A Carol's Carol

In Charles Dickens’ iconic novel “A Christmas Carol”, he aims to portray scrooge as a 19th century miser. He does this by using a variety of techniques to portray that powerful image, as well as comparing to other characters, using his settings and surroundings and also linking the everyday scenarios of 19th century life.

Marley’s dead and his spirit has come to inform Scrooge there will be three ghosts that will come and visit him in the coming nights. According to the text, the Ghost of Christmas Past will be the first spirit to come talk to Scrooge. After visiting with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge is durably speechless to see that the spirit was soft and gentle. Meanwhile, they flew together to a place where there was an open country road, fields on both sides, the city vanished, from what Scrooge said, the darkness vanished with the city, it was cold and there was snow on the ground. In addition to the text, wherever the ghost took Scrooge, he said he was a boy there, the ghost said “Your lip is trembling. And what is upon your cheek?” The old sinner

‘I made it link by link, and yard be yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free I wore it.’” This shows that during life you should stay connected with other people, and help them out, or otherwise your afterlife will be far from pleasant. This shows that ignorance will be the end of humans because since Marley didn’t know this, and follow the basing principle of connecting with other people and treating everyone nicely, he was tortured eternally after he died. Since Scrooge doesn’t listen to his nephew, he has to live with the heavy burden of carrying of of his hate and sorrow everywhere with him, because he refuses to let it go. This is shown on page 177-178 “‘Christmas a humbug, Uncle!’ said Scrooge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, I am sure.’ ‘I do, said

“Bah! Humbug!” (Dickens, Page2) Is what Ebenezer scrooge has to say about Christmas. Scrooge was a rich miser who hisses to everyone he meets, Giving off a miserable eerie feeling to others. Written by the Famous novelist Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, is a Well Known christmas story about The greedy, ungrateful, lonely man who doesn't Enjoy the activities of christmas. In the past few weeks we read the play as well as watched the 1984 Movie Of A Christmas Carol.

Dickens gives us glimpses into Scrooge’s past, allowing us to unveil that his animosity towards Christmas originated from his negative experiences during childhood, which in further sprouted him to adopt the miserly behaviours of those around him and reflect negative feelings towards others, portraying him with lonesome demeanour and miserly heart. "I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate." In this segment of text, we see that Marley knows the common summaries between him and Scrooge due to the influence they had on each other and how Scrooge was bound to lead his fate in the afterlife due to their association, which leads to others following the same path such as Mrs. Dibler where they lose all care towards Scrooge. Dickens also enlightens us on other ways a person can be influenced where a change in perspective can be just as powerful as interacting with others, this is shown through the Christmas spirits and their revelations towards scrooges curtained past "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

“I am not the man I once was…” (Dickens 675) might be the most famous words of Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” Written by Charles Dickens. Ebenezer Scrooge is a horrible man who is haunted by three spirits overnight in hopes to make a new man out of the old miser. Throughout this story, Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by three spirits ,Christmas present, past, and future, and during this time he learns about his greed, what joy he missed on christmas, and that he had a chance to become better.

In this extract we are presented with Scrooge. From the beginning Scrooge is presented as a miser. In the extract we find out that he is an old, rude and ignorant man that doesn’t appreciate others around him. Dickens uses different language techniques to describe Scrooges appearance as clear as possible.

As Scrooge lay’d before the phantom spirit, it said nothing the only speech that it had was his finger and arm. Scrooge was frightened amassed than ever of the last two spirits. Scrooge observed the phantom and did whatever he would do or say to the phantom approximative spirit. “Are you the spirit that which will be the things that will or maybe happen”. The spirit said nothing,Scrooge was impatient and haste the spirit to do something. The spirit jumped out and threw Scrooge to the stairs of the decrepit church. He saw two men talking about a man who has died upon Christmas day,”although it may be a cheap funeral” one man said,another spoke and furthermore aforementioned “I shall go…if lunch is provided, they all laughed .The moment faded away and got dark and moist as he glanced at the spirit, the spirit of the future pointed to a dark mans cab with shadowy horses that led Scrooge in a gunshot to a corner in town were dreadful,miserable people like Scrooge lived in.

The novels A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte display a strong parallel in the ways in which they use their different styles of narration in the story to reveal the true inner-feelings of characters. In A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is taught many valuable lessons through the testament of three different spirits, each working to bring out the true emotions of this man. Likewise, in Wuthering Heights, the main character, Mr. Lockwood, is taught stories of his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, through written recollections from the testaments of others, showing the inner-feelings and thoughts of him through diary entries. Although they are written in two different styles, indirect

Charles wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. This short novel has a Christmas theme and has been popular since it was first published. This moral story is about an old man called Scrooge who hates Christmas and is mean to everyone, but he is transformed. The lessons he learns are as much for the reader to benefit from as Scrooge.

Some of these may be very scary and some may only be mildly scary. It

A Christmas Carol is a beautifully crafted novel which symbolizes life in the Victorian Era where class discrimination was a common practice and nearly no one would speak up against it - except Charles Dickens. Social commentary is a skill used by artist of every deviation to making remarks on sundry issues society faces and in Dickens case, he uses his words to lessen the social gap between the poor and rich. Dickens leads the reader into his novel immediately by explaining that Ebenezer Scrooge is a harsh miser whose only friend and partner, Jacob Marley, died 7 years ago on Christmas Eve. After he spends his day at the counting-house, Scrooge returns to his house and as he lies in bed, Marly burst into his chambers wearing, “”the chain I forged in life,”” (Dickens 16), bestowing upon him a prophecy: 3 Spirits will haunt him, however his consent is paramount if wants a proper afterlife. After each spirit, Scrooge learns about how his misanthropic actions adversely affects others until he learns to honor the Spirit of Christmas year-round. Dickens used social commentary to unearth the spirit of Christmas amongst all by using social commentary to express that one's class should not have an effect on how someone is treated.

Happiness. Happiness is a state of well-being expounded by enjoyable or pleasant emotions ranging from fulfillment to immense amounts of uncontrollable delight. Happiness can be achieved in contrasting approaches depending on the type of person you are. Despite this, happiness is an extremely difficult jewel to find if you don’t look hard enough in a cave of complications in life. In Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, faces grueling memories and future experiences that will help determine if he, a crotchety, unkind man, will attain true ecstasy or not. Before the help of spirits, Scrooge thought the only possible way to reached his euphoria was all the wealth and riches he could accumulate. It is soon

“Bah, Humbug” an iconic line from a story we all know and love, said by a character that was made for us to hate. Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 1843, in part as an attempt to garner some success, and also as an attempt to convince the masses of kindness and charity at Christmas time. While it did not gain him commercial success, the legacy this story has left, succeeded in inspiring our society to give a little more at Christmas time. Nowadays, the story has become synonymous with Christmas. It would be hard to imagine a Christmas without some adaptation of Dickens masterpiece. As A Christmas Carol is one of the most adapted Literary sources, it is no surprise that Dr. Who would take a crack at it. The episode “The Unquiet Undead” aired in 2005, and takes place during the time of Dickens, and while it is not a direct adaptation of A Christmas Carol. it’s many allusions, and similar story structure, make it an apt analogy for it. Of course, revision is Dr. Who’s game, so the alien ghosts, and reanimated corpses are not a surprise either.

The play “A Christmas Carol” was written by Charles John Huffam Dickens, playwright who was born on February 7,1813. Charles was a English writer and also a social critic, he created some of the best fictional characters that people know today. Charles is recognized as one of the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era. Charles wrote 15 novels , 5 novellas, hundreds of short stories and lots of other things. Charles left school early to work at a factory to provide for him and his family, but his lack of education didn't stop him at all.