Character Analysis Of Scrooge In A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

The first ghost started his particular method of changing Scrooge. He softened him by showing him his own past at first, the ones in particular that brought out the emotions he had shoved into the deepest darkest pit of his black heart. The enlightening spirit showed him on page 34 “At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire: and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be.”, as he continued watching the past he was able to relive the happy memories he had chosen to forget.

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The theme of this novel is compassion and forgiveness. Scrooge becomes a more compassionate person in hopes of receiving forgiveness from the people he has wronged. Mr. Scrooge is known to not be the most compassionate person in town. Most people would even say that they despise Scrooge. Scrooge also dislikes Christmas and tries to discourage any happiness during the holiday season.

In reading Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” the character Gregor is the one that he uses to describe a man who has an acute loss of spirituality. For example, Gregor had a dream he was a bug and this dream became so realistic that it turned into his reality. In Gregor’s perspective, he can’t control himself and has lost his self with this dream that his voice even changes making his family worry about him. Throughout Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” Gregor’s happiness or what he thought was happiness slowly starts to deteriorate. Gregor had a job to help his parent’s pay off debt that they were in and since he can’t function as a normal human being he lost his job.

This subtle difference between the two, results in the classmates being cruel and mean to Margot, but at the end, feel sorry for their actions, as shown in “Apologize”. In the song “Apologize”, the singer is made fun of and people are mean to him, which proves the results of being mean from the victim’s point of view. In both of these forms of art, we are able to learn that the resulting consequence of being mean is feeling responsible and that apologizing may not always be the strategy to solve a problem like such. A commonality between “All Summer in a Day” and “Apologize” is that they both describe someone feeling bad for his or her cruel actions.

He is in these locks because he did not live life to the fullest. He warns Scrooge that three ghost are coming to help Scrooge open his eyes and see what he is missing in life and to cheer up. The ghost show him the past, present, and future and it is usually something that starts happy then turns terrible . The first ghost visited scrooge at 1:00AM and took him back to the past and showed how happy he was in the past and how sour he became further on in life. The second ghost that visited showed him in the present all the poor people that were enjoying themselves even one of his workers Bob Cratchit and his family and tried to make him see sense and joy in Christmas.

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At the beginning of A Christmas Carol,Scrooge is mean,selfish,and greedy. He is mean, because on pg.9, he never donates to the poor,and he always yells at little kids. Scrooge is also selfish because on pg.12, he never pays a day wages for no work. They say “it's a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of december!”Also,another word is he is greedy,on pg.17, says he is caustic and cold as ever and never gave anything to anyone. He said “what do you want with me.

Have you ever had a Christmas miracle? Ebenezer Scrooge was a mad man. On Christmas Eve, his old partner Jacob Marley´s spirit came to warn him that three spirits were going to see him that night. The first one would be the ghost of Christmas Past, the second was the ghost of Christmas Present, and the last was the ghost of Christmas Future, but which one was the most influential?

Have you ever heard of someone being mean and selfish to being someone kind and giving? Well in the play “A Christmas Carol” By Israel Horovitz, A grumpy old miser living in the city of London He was greedy and selfish and only cared about money. He hated Christmas and he thought it was a waste of money. Now this is the story of how Scrooge's life changed.