As a child the Grinch was didn’t fit in with the kids in his class because he was different than the rest. This makes his ID take over. He has an unconscious hatred. The unhappy childhood is the cause of his aggression. The Grinch builds his anger toward Christmas and everyone that is different from him because he is made fun of before his classmates during the Christmas season. When the Grinch throws Cindy Lou in the mail machine, it displays the growing power of the ID. Max his dog convinces the Grinch to help Cindy. Therefore, the Grinch rescues her. Max is the representation of good! Max represents the superego in the Grinch. When the Mayor gave a razor to the Grinch as a gift, it flipped him completely. It brought back his childhood and
One example of how the grinch had goodness in his heart is when he saved Cindy Loo. He made sure she didn’t get hurt at all. Cindy Loo fell into the present wrapping machine and the Grinch saved her from getting hurt. When Cindy Loo was on top of all the Christmas presents and the sleigh was hanging over the mountains, he made sure she didn’t fall at all. He also stopped the sleigh from hitting Cindy Lou's dad. He made sure nothing happened to him or her.
This show can be seen on TV every Christmas season. Then Ron Howard takes this short film and draws it out to be a two and a half-hour long movie. The worst aspect of the movie is that it makes a mockery of Seuss's main message: “Christmas doesn't come from a store.” This movie is all about selling, from those furry talking Grinch dolls to endless fast-food tie-ins.
The change begins when the Ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge. In this section of the play the Ghost of Christmas past took Scrooge to the place where Scrooge grew up. (683) Scrooge began to cry at the scene of his childhood. The Ghost said, “Your lip is trembling, Mr. Scrooge. And what is that upon your cheek?” Scrooge said, “Nothing… a blemish on the skin… lead me where you will, but quickly! To be stagnant in this place is, for me, unbearable!” From Scrooge crying it shows that Scrooge saw something from his past that he did not wish to remember. He also cried, which is the first bit of emotion and or feelings he had shown in a very long time. Scrooge was also shown him as a boy sitting alone in a school room. Scrooge began to sob at the sight. Scrooge said, (688) “...poor boy. He lived inside his head… alone… [weeps]... I wish…
Jacob Marley from ‘A Christmas Carol’ changes through the whole story. He has a creepy outfit. He treats people much different after he died. He is almost like Scrooge.
In the play, A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley by Israel Horovitz the main character Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas and people. At the beginning, he shows very different and mean actions towards people and how he is always mad. For example when Scrooge leaves his office's people start to walk past him in a happy and merry mood. But in contrast to the people, Scrooge has a frown and looks unhappy for the Christmas time. Another example is that when his nephew is talking to him he is wanting him to leave so he keeps on repeating the words, “Good Afternoon!” until he leaves. The last example would be that when Cratchit is cold in the office, Scrooge starts yelling at him saying that he would fire him because he was showing he was cold. Scrooge also shows it in his own words by saying “...every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”(647).
These are shown by the Grinch ruining Christmas and how harsh men are to one another.
Scrooge's mean attitude was demonstrated when he said to his nephew, “What right have you to be Merry? You're poor enough" This is the first indication that Scrooge was not in the Christmas spirit as he was not joyful. This is also an indication that Scrooge was greedy and
In the writings, “The Black Cat”, “A Christmas Carol”, “Death of a Salesman”, and “A Raisin in the Sun”, they all portray an ongoing theme about bad choices. Bad choices lead to how the characters feel. For example, in the Black Cat, the narrator kills his cat along with his wife, leading his wife to be upset. Also, in a Christmas Carol, Scrooge disrespects his nephew leading to his nephew being upset. Along with that, in the Death of a Salesman, when Willy yells at Linda saying that he doesn’t want change, she becomes dejected. In the last story a Raisin in the Sun, Walter is sexiest and racist to Ruth which makes her feel unworthy.
To illustrate, a background of the Grinch, he was a resentful individual who look to be in his 40’s who lived on a snowy called Mount Crumpits in the town of Whoville. In the film it depicts him spending a lot of time alone in the cave on the mountain reflecting depressed mood and his only social contact being his dog, named Max. He was abandoned as a child and was
Charles Dickens a well-renowned author who wrote a variety of novels from Oliver twist, great expectations, But one of his focus most famous works is “A Christmas Carol”. The main character in Charles Dicken’s novel “A Christmas carol” is Ebenezer Scrooge a cold-hearted old man, who hates everything jolly, and good. Charles dickens uses a variety of word choices, and techniques to describe Ebenezer’s attitude towards people and people’s attitude toward him, to show the length of change Ebenezer has gone through after he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. Charles Dickens describes Ebenezer uses a variety of literary devices to describe the characteristic of scrooge for example “No wind that blew was bitterer than he” Scrooge’s bitterness
As the story moves along Sam out the elder in different situations to see if he would eat the green eggs and ham, but to Sam’s dismay the elder wouldn’t. Finally after trying and trying and trying Sam gets the elder to try the Green eggs and ham. One of the most popular stories by Dr. Seuss is the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This story became so popular that Universal Studios not only picket it up for a movie, but also a whole theme for their Christmas season theme park. In this story the Grinch loathes Christmas and the who’s with every fiber of his being. The Grinch presents himself as socially cut off from the who’s down in whoville. He lives on top of Mt. Crumpit with his dog Max. All of this hate is because his heart is two sizes too small (and this time he’ll keep it off). He finally had enough of the Who’s bangboozaling and clangclangaling so he devised a plan to steal Christmas. After Santa Clause came and delivered all the presents to the houses he would sneak in, in his Santa Clause suit and steal every present, every light, every decoration, every tree, and all of the food for the feast. He even stole the roast beast! He would empty the houses one by one and he didn’t leave anything. Not even a crumb big enough for a mouse. So as he got done with emptying the houses and was about to dump everything over Crumpit he heard a noise, a weird
Truman Capote’s story A Christmas Memory, is about Capote’s childhood memory of a particular holiday season and how he enjoyed that moment in time with a special friend. Capote is illustrated by the main character, Buddy. Buddy and his distant cousin have a bonding friendship and tell of their exploits during that Christmas. They pick out a very special Christmas tree, make each other presents, and make fruitcakes.
In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens I choose a passage that is necessary in order to understand the theme of this novel. This passage was a description of the main character and how he was and how people saw him. In the novel, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens uses figurative language and symbolism to help the reader understand the main character’s transformation throughout the novel.
Dickens emphasizes this with Magwitch's brutal behavior, his threats of death if Pip does not do his bidding, but, as is a recurring theme in the novel, we need only the proof of his appearance to pass judgment upon him. Pip in contrast is defenseless, for in the inverted position Magwitch holds him, Pip can be likened to a new-born; Pip is innocent, naked, and ignorant of the world. It is from this point Pip begins the long journey toward the "identity of things" (24; ch.1).
Stanley Kowalski is an adult that is still affected by the id. As someone grows older, the id is supposed to grow into the other two systems of the brain but reading Stanley’s character, it seems that process did not take affect. Throughout the novel, Stanley’s true colors gradually start to show within his behavior. The id of his personality comes full of light when he abuses Stella physically in front of his guests and when he rapes Blanche. When performing both of these acts, Stanley has no remorse and faces no repercussions. This states the id part of his system because he has no impulse control on abusing Stella and does not care about the consequences. After Stanley rapes Blanche, he torments her and has no remorse for what he has done.