Ebenezer Scrooge
He is one of Dickens's most famous characters, at the beginning of the novella he presented as a mean and miscible man who only cares for money. As the central protagonist of the novella, all the action revolves around Scrooge. Even if he isn’t in a scene we still have his reactions and how it affects him. Dickens's shows him each scene that Scrooge is shown by the ghost changes him, until his final, joyful transformation.
During the novella:
-He treats his office clerk, Bob Cratchit, badly, making him work in the cold and fear for his job.
-His antagonistic nephew who visits him at work wishes him a merry Christmas.
-He tells charity collected that poor people should die rather than be given charity
-he is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him that his focus on money is wrong
-he sees Christmas days from the past and begins to realise that he made bad choices
-he enjoys Christmas day at the present with the Cratchit's and Fred’s houses
-he is horrified to find if he continues to behave badly none will care about him and Tiny Tim will die.
-he changes his behaviour and supports the Cratchit family
Marley's Ghost
Jacob Marley was Scrooge's business partner, the narrator goes to some lengths to make us accept he is dead. His ghost appears to Scrooge on Christmas eve warning him about the need to change his ways and focus in life, from money to 'mankind'.
In the story:
-he has been dead for seven years
- he visits Scrooges home on Christmas Eve
-is weighted down with chains and baggage that represent the concerns Marley had in life
-he is now desperate to help the poor and needy but is unable to
-he awakes Scrooge to the seriousness of his situation
-he tells Scrooge he will three visitors who will offer him the chance of escaping the same fate.
He is one of Dickens's most famous characters, at the beginning of the novella he presented as a mean and miscible man who only cares for money. As the central protagonist of the novella, all the action revolves around Scrooge. Even if he isn’t in a scene we still have his reactions and how it affects him. Dickens's shows him each scene that Scrooge is shown by the ghost changes him, until his final, joyful transformation.
During the novella:
-He treats his office clerk, Bob Cratchit, badly, making him work in the cold and fear for his job.
-His antagonistic nephew who visits him at work wishes him a merry Christmas.
-He tells charity collected that poor people should die rather than be given charity
-he is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him that his focus on money is wrong
-he sees Christmas days from the past and begins to realise that he made bad choices
-he enjoys Christmas day at the present with the Cratchit's and Fred’s houses
-he is horrified to find if he continues to behave badly none will care about him and Tiny Tim will die.
-he changes his behaviour and supports the Cratchit family
Marley's Ghost
Jacob Marley was Scrooge's business partner, the narrator goes to some lengths to make us accept he is dead. His ghost appears to Scrooge on Christmas eve warning him about the need to change his ways and focus in life, from money to 'mankind'.
In the story:
-he has been dead for seven years
- he visits Scrooges home on Christmas Eve
-is weighted down with chains and baggage that represent the concerns Marley had in life
-he is now desperate to help the poor and needy but is unable to
-he awakes Scrooge to the seriousness of his situation
-he tells Scrooge he will three visitors who will offer him the chance of escaping the same fate.
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