The Transformation Of Scrooge In A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

‘A Christmas Carol’ covers a period of 24 hours from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. It is a simple morality tale of the radical change in the character Ebenezer Scrooge from being bitter, ironfisted and miserable to becoming a new, openhearted and charitable man.

Imagine a person that is greedy and hates Christmas. Someone like that is a character from the story “A Christmas Carol” and his name is Scrooge and the author of the story “A christmas Carol” is Charles Dickens. In the story three spirits visited Scrooge to try to change him. All of the spirits came all in a separate time and they each explained one of Scrooge past, present, and future. Will Scrooge stay a greedy man and be happy that he has money or will he change and be a happy man that isn’t greedy and kind?

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was first published in London on the 19th of December 1843, the novella was instantly popular and still is to this day. Dickens inspiration for the short story seems to come from his childhood experiences and his sympathy for the poor. In the story a miserable old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, is shown the error of his ways and what will come of it if he doesn’t make drastic changes. Various ghosts and spirits slowly transform him into a kinder more pleasant man. A Christmas Carol is a powerful novella that uses symbolism like the children Ignorance and Want, Scrooge’s transformation, and Scrooges nephew Fred, to reinforce significant themes like social isolation, rebirth, and family.

What would you do if one day a ghost appeared and told you that if you don’t change your ways something bad would happen? Would you change your ways? In the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a man named Scrooge, who was wealthy, hated Christmas. Right before Christmas, the ghosts of Christmas past, the ghost of Christmas present, and the ghost of Christmas yet to come showed Scrooge his life, hoping for Scrooge to change his ways before it was too late. All three of the ghosts impacted Scrooge and made him realize the meaning of Christmas. The two ghosts who impacted him most were the ghost of Christmas yet to come and the ghost of Christmas past.

Ebenezer Scrooge is the major character in the story, A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is about how a “cold-hearted, tight fisted, selfish” money grabbing man is offered an opportunity of a life time, to change his behaviour, attitude... to have a second chance in life.

According to the text, Scrooge is a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, who emphatically worships money. Meanwhile, in addition, the text says that Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, clutching, covetous, old sinner. In the text it states, “Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal, but he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal in his room.” The ghost of Jacob Marley visits Scrooge and by showing him a reflection of himself, begins the reformation of Scrooge as we know him at the borderline of the story. The spirit leaves him the opposite from where he was at in the beginning. Throughout the entire beginning of “A Christmas Carol” The miser demeanor is “hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck”. The text states on page 3 how Scrooge feels about Christmas when he says to the two men who were soliciting money for the poor, “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? ”

In the beginning of the novel, Ebenezer Scrooge was a mean, greedy, and selfish person. Some examples of his meanness, greed, and selfishness are, he never let his assistant Bob Cratchit put any coal in the fire. He is rude to his nephew Fred who came over to give Ebenezer Scrooge a gift and invite Scrooge to his Christmas party. When Bob Cratchit tried to help Fred, Ebenezer Scrooge

A Christmas Carol, originally written by Charles Dickens was converted to a play over a century later by Israel Horovitz. Throughout the story Ebenezer Scrooge changes from an impossible miser to a good friend who was very kind and giving to others. He was persuaded to change because of the visions Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future brought to him the night of Christmas Eve.

money to the poor. He thinks of them as idle and he states that if

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is about three ghosts – one of Christmas past, one of Christmas present, and one of Christmas future – trying to change Ebenezer Scrooge. At the time, he is a grumpy man that does not find any pleasure in anything. When he argues with his nephew, he shows this about himself (pg. 3). The three spirits influence Scrooge’s transformation by making him a happier person.

In A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, the main character, Scrooge, is heavily influenced by Tiny Tim. Scrooge is an old, selfish, misanthropic man who despises Christmas and all that comes with it; joy happiness, and coming together with family. He is visited by three spirits, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come, who try to change him for the better. During his experiences with these spirits, he watches over Tiny Tim. He is the son of Bob Crachit, Scrooge’s clerk.

Scrooge is presented as a lonely character who has little left in life. Often he is linked to cold and darkness, perhaps linking to the demons he faces and how he presents them to others coming across as a moody, melancholics man. He has a fixation with money and how no money should be given away. Scrooge is similar to a villain in fairy tales which may be where Dickens got his character from.  In the opening line of the extract Scrooge is described as "a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone".

How can an unbearable human being transform into a warm hearted individual in a matter of twelve hours? This is a question that several of us asked ourselves while watching A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which is a story that takes place in 1843 where on Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts, starting with his old business partner, Jacob Marley. The three spirits show Scrooge, how his mean behaviour has affected those around him. At the end of the story he is relieved to discover that there is still time for him to change and we see him transform into a generous and kind hearted human being overnight. Furthermore, before Christmas Eve of 1843, Ebenezer Scrooge was a grouchy miserable old man, who had a rotten

A Christmas Carol is about how one man changes from a grumpy, conceded old man to a generous, nice man. Scrooge is the main character that the book is based on. Most of the day, Scrooge usually works long hours to make as much money as he can. To Scrooge, money is everything. He won’t give it up for anyone or anything.

To start off, in many instances Scrooge showed what type of person he is, even at the beginning of the play his old friend Marley described him as a “wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” (paragraph 4 page 236) Which doesn’t seem like a way you would describe an old friend even if you are dead, unless the facts are undoubtedly true. However this isn’t the only occurrence in the play makes us see how Scrooge should change his ways, we see Scrooge at the beginning sitting alone counting his money saying, “They owe me money and I will collect. I will have them jailed, if I have to.” (paragraph 6 page 236) This shows how Scrooge has no tolerance for anything, although this can be good in some cases, others it isn’t the best way to treat people. Especially if you take such extreme measures very quickly, like sending someone to jail or example. But this is all about to change, because Scrooge needs to get better, he needs to learn how to treat people.