Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol's Life

In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens utilizes a plethora of literary devices such as similes, metaphors, imagery, and denouement to explore the capacity for change. This reveals that changing is never impossible until you’re six-feet under.

Ebenezer Scrooge’s character greatly varies from the beginning to the end of “A Christmas Carol”. When readers first meet the main character, Scrooge, they get the impression that he solely has a heart of coal. By the middle of the story, he was summoned by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future to show him how the rest of the towns’ people view him. Finally, in the end, Scrooge came to the realization that there needs to be a powerful change in his pitiful Christmas spirit creating a whole new man within him. Throughout the play, Ebenezer’s character flourished, but he began as a cruel, irascible old man.

Pathetic fallacy, is used to compare him to ‘wind that blew’ as it shows scrooge to be predictable and unwanted like wind which is undesirable during winter- with the exception that Scrooge is undesirable seasonally. Moreover as readers we infer that Scrooge is worse than wind as he is ‘bitterer’, this superlative shows that he exceeds the unpleasantness of wind, which doesn’t make the readers view him as a protagonist as the above isn’t the typical trait of one. Additionally, ‘no pelting rain less open to entreaty [than he]’, suggests that just as you couldn't ask the rain to stop falling, you couldn’t ask him to do something for you; neither the rain nor he will be open to such requests. Nature would not heed your cries, and he would heed them even less as he is ‘less open

Had Scrooge not been developed as a character in the way he was, would the story A Christmas Carol, have become such a famous and well known novel as it is now? Scrooge’s character development in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, was essential to the plot of the novel. The appearance, behaviors, and reactions all contributed to the character development of the infamous Ebenezer Scrooge.

Have you ever wanted to do something bad to intentionality hurt others feelings, but you later change your mind on the decisions you are making? The authors changes the character 's feelings to demonstrate how a character and how people can change overtime. In the stories "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Thank you M 'am", and "the Christmas Carol". The author can using the changing in character in a variety of ways, the author creates a change in writing by changing the characters in the story.

Scrooge is a cold-hearted and selfish character; I know this because Charles Dickens uses repetition throughout the short story. Repetition is the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. Repetition is used by authors to give emphasis to particular word, phrase or idea; for example, "No warmth could warm him, no wintry weather chills him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he; no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose…" (Stanza 2). That specific quote is not repeating the exact words over again, but it is repeating the same idea over and over while continuously using the word “no.” Charles Dickens uses repetition as a way to further give us detail about

At the beginning of the story Scrooge is greedy, cold, and bitter. In the first stave it says “Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire”(2). This illustrates that Scrooge is greedy and doesn’t like to share any of his possessions, including his money. “ Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, “ My dear Scrooge, how are you?(3) This shows that Scrooge is cold because nobody wanted to talk to him. “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried Scrooge’s nephew in a cheerful voice. “Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”(4) This proves that Scrooge hates Christmas and the Christmas season, he thinks it’s a waste of time and money.

In the beginning the text states “anyway, Scrooge turns out to be the grumpiest grumper that ever grumped”. It shows that he is a grumpy person that can be very hard to handle sometimes. He is more head than heart so he is not that caring, loving, and thoughtful kind of person. He is more of a person who would argue and get angry a lot. He can be pretty greedy most of the time. He can be selfish, rude, and cruel. Scrooge can get freaked out or scared if you try to make him scared. Back to Scrooge and his rudeness he has and smart mouth for this ghostly horror. Scrooge has been given a chance by the ghost Marley to reform himself. Scrooge is not a joyful,happy,cheerful kind of person knowing that he hates Christmas. He is not that person who

Stave One, Dickens uses a lot of different quotes and conversations to tell the readers how Scrooge really is, most of these quotes are found in the first few pages and describe how much of a horrible, cold hearted person Scrooge is.

2. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the epitome of a classic Christmas story. The transformation we see in Scrooge is similar to the famous children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss. A Christmas Carol emphasizes one central theme that is important to Christmas: compassion and forgiveness. In

Dickens presents Scrooge as a greedy and stingy character whose love for money increases until he does not see the consequences of his actions. Dickens uses the name “Scrooge” because it describes someone who is selfish and does not like giving or spending. In this extract, Dickens motivation is to highlight

In Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is molded into an exceptional person by three spirits of Christmas. Though they all contributed to Scrooge’s change of heart, the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come influenced him the most. This ghost, though he couldn’t speak, led Scrooge down a brighter path by forcing him to witness a few depressing events. The aftermath of adorable Tiny Tim’s demise, Scrooge’s own deathbed and grave, and the fact that no one could’ve cared less that he was gone.

The entrance of Scrooge’s nephew Fred at the beginning of the story introduces another side to the miser. Scrooge is not unfortunate in the way of relatives – he has a family awaiting his presence, asking him to dinner, wanting to celebrate the season with him, yet he refuses. This is one of the important moral moments in the story that helps predict Scrooge’s coming downfall. It shows how Scrooge makes choices to prolong his own misery. He chooses to live alone and in darkness while even poor Cratchit is rich in family. Scrooge’s distaste for Fred’s happiness is not just annoyance at the sight of merriness and excess, it is also motivated by bitterness towards marriage based on Scrooge’s own lost love Belle, who left him long ago.

Charles John Huffam Dickens was a marvelous novelist, his work not only influenced literature but engrained itself into modern culture.

In the Book The Christmas Carol. The main character Scrooge is a nasty, harsh, and cruel person, transformed to a kind, everyday person. He learns how to become a kind person, and treat people kindly and generously. Scrooge starts out as a nasty person but is transformed into an everyday kind person. Scrooge is visited by ghosts of Marley, Past, Present, and Future. What he experiences with the ghosts changes his perspective to be a more kind and generous person to himself and others.Throughout the Christmas Carol, Scrooge experiences a traumatic, and life changing moments and changes himself into a kind, generous, and merry person.