In stave 4, Dickens opens stave 4 with “he recoiled in terror,”which demonstrates that Scrooge is now absolutely terrified of death rather than just a little bit scared. He steps back after noticing the shroud, demonstrating his inability to understand what he is seeing. The word "terror" connotes utter fear, anguish, and horror, and this is the first time we have witnessed Scrooge displaying such intense feelings. Dickens emphasises Scrooge's fear of death in the gothic depiction of the animals trying to enter the room of death, which is creepy and terrifying. "A cat was tearing" and "gnawing rats" are used as verbs to describe how the animals strive to enter. Additionally, "Scrooge did not dare to consider" suggests that he does not want to face the terrible …show more content…
At this moment, the dramatic irony heightens the tension because we know that Scrooge has been left helpless by death, even though he isn't conscious of it (although one could argue that he is subconsciously aware of it and is simply unable to acknowledge it due to his terror). Scrooge admits his weakness to the ghost when he says, "I have not the power," and the fact that he says it again indicates that he is now ready to own up to his mistakes, demonstrates that he understands that death is painful and useless for him, and demonstrates his fear of it since he is not yet ready to give up on life. In fact, he is ready to change, which is demonstrated by the way he fervently repeats the mantra "I will live in the past, the present, and the future" at the beginning of Stave 5 to demonstrate that he has realised he fears death, wants to live, and will be a better man as a direct result of all the ghosts'
A big thing to know about Scrooge is that he absolutely despises Christmas time and wishes that people who celebrate Christmas should be burned with their own pudding and be buried with a stake of holly through their heart. (Page 238, paragraph
Scrooge can see multiple poor people stealing from the dead rich person so they could live happily with money. All the ghosts had shown Scrooge of his distraught past, the present, and his leading future that could affect him if he could
What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’ Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.” (Dickens 3). This shows how the quote from Stave one demonstrates that Scrooge was expressing his cynicism to his nephew.
Scrooge’s nephew comes over to invite him to Christmas, and his response indicates that he does not believe in
This comes to show that Scrooge was very lonely and grumpy. Scrooge wasn't morally doing the right thing. He could have chosen to be merry and give merry back but he
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
The Ghost brings Scrooge to a graveyard, where he appears to see his name on a grave, which is the final scare that Scrooge will endure, but the strongest of them all. “Scrooge crept towards it and it said his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.” Thus scared Scrooge so badly but made him realize, that after his whole life of working for money, all of it would be gone when he passed and he would never get to spend it all. This proved to Scrooge that money is worthless and he should live a life of living, and not in his work office
And he sobbed." (Dickens, 2) This quote displays that Scrooge is moved when he sees his former self in practically the same position he is in now: alone and neglected by everyone during Christmas time. It also shows how he has never changed from being the isolated and neglected person he was as a boy. This scene teaches Scrooge that he must change the ways of his life in order to redeem and save the future of not only his life, but the lives of those around him as well, as he can drastically change the outcome of other people’s lives so that they would never have to experience the same fate that he has already
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.
Marley is trying to warn him so that Scrooge doesn’t end up like him. Marley tells him about the three spirits of Christmas and how they're each going to visit him one by one. Marley leaves, and the first ghost arrives. The spirit of Christmas past arrives, and she’s here to show Scrooge his past. From these visions, we see Scrooge feels guilty for doing such things and certainly regrets them.
He appreciated his time with people and realized Christmas was more than he thought. In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens’ the ghosts teach scrooge, his past doesn’t define him, the true meaning of the holidays, and that his present affects the future so that scrooge can have a chance to change for the better.
No doubt about it that he was terrified by the ghost, he tries to maintain his authority even over his own senses. When Scrooge encounters Jacob Marley’s ghost, he tries to play it off as well as deny the existence of the ghost. Scrooge puts the blame onto something that he ate or did to avoid the existence of the ghost. As he stated here, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats.
We come to learn that Scrooge changes with his attitude. One quote from the text that accurately confirms this is…“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather could chill him. ”(page 3). This excerpt from the text explains how troubled and insecure he is inside, using a metaphorical perspective. We, as the readers, can draw inferences and conclusions on how loathsome he seems.
He is ready to take on what the Spirit has for him because he knows that is the only way he will become a better man. The Ghost of Christmas Future takes Scrooge to different moments in the future, where a rich man died and no one cares about it. The Spirit then takes Scrooge to the man’s headstone, where he sees that his name is on it and realizes that he is the cold-hearted man who no one cared about. He then says, “ ‘Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you shown me, by an altered life’ ” (Dickens 18).
Scrooge finally changed when he saw what his life would become if he did not