What Does Scrooge Symbolize In A Christmas Carol

In the novella A Christmas Carol, by the successful British author Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, visits the horrendous mistakes of his past, learning how he became an antisocial, miserly man. Scrooge then must redeem himself or suffer a miserable fate; using examples from the text explain in what ways does Dickens, helps the misanthropic Scrooge redeem himself and spread the Christmas Spirit throughout Victorian England? The visits of the ghosts help Scrooge realize his wrongdoings; the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge through his past that leads him to become who he is presently. The ghost first takes him to his old school, where he stayed there for Christmas, but his friends went home for the holidays, but then his sister, Fan, picked him

The ghost takes Scrooge to see and hear things for himself. Overhearing a conversation from a group of businessman, Scrooge hears them talking about the death of a rich man and how all the shady people take his stuff to go and sell it to make a profit outs of it. Scrooge then travels to the Cratchit's house and sees that the family is struggling to bear with the death of Tiny Tim, and Scrooge, as frightened as can be, asks the ghost to know who is going to die. Suddenly, Scrooge finds himself in a churchyard where the spirit points towards a fresh new grave with the name on the top of a headstone reading, Ebenezer Scrooge. Charles Dickens wrote Christmas Carol in a novella form to let the people of Victorian Era England be kind hearted to everyone, especially the rich to the poor. Dickens portrays this as Scrooge being a rich, unhappy man, who is not satisfied with anything, but as people, or the ghosts make an impact on Scrooge, or the higher class. They soon enough change and become considerate of everyone and they are happy and helping out people who are less