In Charles Dickens' famous novel, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts who help him realize that he is not the man he should be. When he is invited to view his own gravestone by the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, Scrooge implores, But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Today I'm going to show how his ending change.
The following evening ,Scrooge was haunted by Marley's ghost, which alert Scrooge that the dead who had horrible lives are called to explore places and not be at peace. Marley tells scrooge that three other ghosts are going to come to Scrooge home, and leaves after telling Scrooge to change his ways before it's hurts him.Scrooge thinks nothing of this and thinks it a illness, but as Marley said, he would get visited from one of the Ghost of Christmas that is named Past. This ghost takes scrooge down memory lane of his childhood memories and Scrooge sadly begins sob when he think about his past as a boy. The past also features events from Scrooge's young adulthood, when he transforms into the rude miser that he ends up being after rejecting his wife and not learning the lessons of kindness taught by Fezziwig, the man he was apprenticed to.
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In a alarming voice, The ghost announces himself as the Ghost of Christmas named Present. He tells Scrooge that he has more than 1800 brother. The ghost tells Scrooge to fell his robe. Upon doing this, the ghost and the room disappears instantly and Scrooge finds himself alongside the spirit in the midst of the bustling city on Christmas morning. He happily take pleasure in the amazing sights and smells roaming through the shop doors. People happily shoveling snow, tote bags of presents, and greet one another with a happy "Merry
In Charles Dickens's famous novel, A. Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited be three spirits, to show him his life then, now, and later. At the end of the story, he is visited from the ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, and the ghost has took Ebenezer into the future to a view of his own gravestone. When Ebenezer has gotten to his gravestone he says, "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me."
When Scrooge looks at his past he gets a tear on his cheek. When the ghost took him to his school, Scrooge starts to become sad. When his Sister picks him up from school he realizes his father doesn’t actually hate him. Scrooge realizes how bad he treated people when he was at the Fezzywig’s. When the Ghost of Christmas past comes to visit Scrooge, Scrooge gets emotional.
The first ghost tried to show him what he did wrong in the past, but Scrooge was set in his ways. The ghost of Christmas passed revealed to Scrooge what happened at Marley's funeral. Scrooge did not even pay the man who dug Marley's grave. Scrooge did not care about what the ghost was saying. He told the ghost that he did not think that he was being
In the novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the main Character Ebenezer Scrooge who is a “covetous old sinner” (Dickens 3) and a solitary man who “wished to be left alone” (Dickens 12), was an abysmal person. One day he came home and thought that he was seeing things till he heard clanking and rattling of chains and saw a Ghost. It was the Ghost of his deceased partner Jacob Marley. The Ghost had come to tell him that he had to change his path or he would end up like him. Sadly for Scrooge the only way to change was to be haunted by three Spirits.
Charles Dickens’ novel “A Christmas Carol” shows the main character Scrooge as being haunted by three spirits on Christmas Eve. Dickens presents these supernatural entities with historic appearances, which have a strong reflection on the character and development of Scrooge. This is often overlooked on first read. The first example of this is the appearance of The Ghost of Christmas Past, which is used by Dickens to physicalize the mentality of Scrooge. The spirit is described as “like a child” and represents the child that is still inside him; It is his childhood that caused him to hate the festive season and he still holds the grudge, that being “a lonely boy” during Christmas set.
And as expected, Scrooge was haunted by the three spirits. The first spirit was the ghost of Christmas past. The spirit let Scrooge see himself as a little boy at school. He saw his past, and felt the feelings he felt before that he never feels now. He felt pity, love, but most importantly, he learned that money wasn’t what made the best, but it was the happiness that made the best.
Scrooge then realizes he will die alone and that he needs to change his ways. Scrooge pleased that this will not be him to the Spirit.(Dickens 32) He says he will change his ways and honor Christmas.(Dickens 32). After that he is back home.
Scrooge reacts to the holiday visitors with resentment, spitting out an hostile statement in response to his nephew's "Merry Christmas!" The second ghost to visit Scrooge was the Ghost of Christmas Past. The spirit invites Scrooge on a journey into the previous Christmases. Scrooge revisits his
In the past Scrooge was a very nice man. When the night came and he went home from work he saw Jacob Marley, his old friend who died. Chains hung from every finger and limb. He told Scrooge he was being visited by 3 ghosts.
In the play A Christmas Carol Mr scrooge is visited by jacob marley, his old but dead partner. He tells scrooge to get his act up or he will turn out to be like him. He marley told he would be visited by three ghost.(Dickens 8) When the clock strikes he is visited by the ghost of christmas past he shows scrooge his past from when he was a little boy to when he was an apprentice at a warehouse. Where he meet his first love.
Scrooge’s first visit with The Ghost of Christmas Past is to see his younger self when he was just a boy. Upon seeing his old childhood town, he started to cry, with which he dismissed his tear as being “a pimple”. They visited the school he used to attend, and Scrooge, knowing that “a solitary child”, being himself, “is left there still”, started sobbing. He saw himself as a boy, and “he said, in pity for his former self, “Poor boy!” and cried again”.
These third spirits come to shown Scrooge of mysterious scenes related to an unnamed man’s recent death, which of three business gentleman discussed about the money and the interment. After that, Scrooge begged to the spirits and want to know the dead man. Scrooge found himself in churchyard and shocked after read his own name on the headstone and no one care about his dead. The ghost of Christmas Yet to Come want to show Scrooge that he will be dead alone and no one care about him if he does not change his attitude. Due to the presence of the ghost of Christmas future, Scrooge feel deeply sad, and find out on what he has does during these day is really shameful as well as its effect that will cause him feel regret in future.
After the shadows he was shown he realized the error of his ways and planned to change back in his reality. Therefore Scrooge’s reality was changed and made him be more appreciative of his family, made him care more for the poor, and made him want to spread Christmas cheer and happiness. Scrooge’s past experience with with his sister coming to pick him up from his school affected who he became in the present by making him realize he should spend more time with his nephew. “‘Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered,’ said the Ghost.
A new spirit helps Scrooge along this way, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Yet to Come shows Scrooge a group of people barging into his home and stealing things from him, showing that people only benefit from Scrooge’s death. Scrooge’s reaction to this was beyond words, “This unhappy man- this stripped-bare corpse … could very well be my own. My life holds parallel! My life ends that way now!”
When the ghosts started coming he started changing , each time one ghost came he changed little by little . In the book “ a christmas carol “ by charles dickens , the theme is influenced by the process of change by scrooge 's character , and the ways he changed through the ghost 's appearance in the story. In the beginning of The story, Scrooge’s selfish behavior is evident until he meets the Ghost of Christmas Past. Two charitable