The main character of “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge, is the owner of the trade union of "Scrooge and Marley." He was a very mean and cruel person. His whole figure seemed to freeze: his nose was sharp, his cheeks wrinkled, his gait became constrained, his eyes reddened, his thin lips turned blue, and his cunning and annoying voice creaked. People were afraid of him and did not like him. Scrooge did not respect the holiday because he considered it nonsense and did not know how to rejoice it.
The author describes him in a next way: “Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the specter's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.”
Scrooge was Marley’s sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral and solemnized it with an undoubted bargain.
The evening before Christmas, he insulted his nephew and cursed his employee. And at night the ghost of his comrade and companion Marley, whom he had forgotten, appeared to him. Ghost Marley told him of how he repents and suffers from not doing good deeds during his lifetime. He promised that at night Scrooge would meet with the Spirit of the Past, the Spirit of the Present and the Spirit of the Future Christmas.
Scrooge's journey to his childhood, to the present and the future helped him to understand a lot. This influenced him so much that he became a completely different person - he gave generous donations to the poor, helped the family of the clerk Bob, was kind to his nephew - the son of his beloved sister Fan.
Ebenezer Scrooge in the Essays
Dickens combines a description of hardships faced by the poor with a heart-rending sentimental celebration of the Christmas season. The novel contains dramatic and comic element as well as a deep felt moral theme. In the beginning of the novel Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as a hardhearted and...
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the most classic stories that has been embraced by Western culture. There is a certain timelessness to the entire story, in that it demonstrates the powerful transformation of an incredibly stilted and unlikeable character to that of someone who is...
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Christmas Carol Introduction Main body of essay The impression we get of Scrooge in the opening of the novel is………. Mean and miserly Selfish Dickens describes him as, “tight fisted at the grindstone. ” WE are also told that he is, “hard and sharp as a flint. ” The simile used by Dickens likens...
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