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- On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns that he will be visited by three ghosts. Each of the ghosts shows him a scene that strikes fear and regret into his heart and eventually he softens. By the end of the story, Scrooge is a changed man, sharing his wealth and generosity with everyone.
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Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌɛbɪˈniːzər ˈskruːdʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens 's 1843 short novel, A Christmas Carol. Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by three spirits (the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come ...
2 days ago · Scrooge character development. Stave 1. Stave 3. Stave 5. Scrooge as an isolated miser: Scrooge is presented as a callous and mean-spirited employer, who shuns and is shunned by Victorian society, both rich and poor. His stubbornness and sense of righteous indignation are displayed his reaction to the visitation by Marley’s ghost, who comes ...
A Christmas Carol opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge 's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred.
- Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
- 1843
Indeed, at the end of the novel he is as altered by the revelation that no one would mourn him as he is by the many events the ghosts have shown him—his childhood, the loss of his fiancée, the love between the Cratchits, the plight of Tiny Tim.
Ebenezer Scrooge represents a couple of things at the end of the story, change and hope. He represents change because he has so completely transformed throughout the course of the story.
The aged Scrooge regretfully tells the ghost that Fan died many years ago and is the mother of his nephew Fred. The ghost escorts Scrooge to more Christmases of the past including a merry party thrown by Fezziwig, the merchant with whom Scrooge apprenticed as a young man.
