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A Christmas Carol: A Review

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A Christmas Carol

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall thrive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach me.” ( Play 32 ). This is what Scrooge said to Jacob Marley, his old business partner. He was told that he would be haunted by three spirits and after he was haunted by the third spirit, he realized that he was going to die alone. He wanted to change that. It was probably very hard for him to change his way of life towards Christmas.

The play of “A Christmas Carol” is very good. I liked it. It would be even better if it was exactly like the movie. Even though it is not just like the movie it was still a good play. Scrooge was a lonely man with nobody to share it with. The one person in life that he loved in life he just walked away from her. …show more content…

Some people tell him Merry Christmas and all he says is "Christmas? Bah- Humbug”. The spirits of Christmas were still spirits and Scrooge changed in the end. Everybody has Christmas spirit in them. Ebenezer did not know that he was going to die in the future until the spirit of Christmas yet to come gave him a

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