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- Within the allegory, the silent, reaper-like figure of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come represents the fear of death, which refracts Scrooge's lessons about memory, empathy, and generosity, ensuring his reversion to an open, loving human being.
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The phantom, a menacing figure clad in a black hooded robe, approaches Scrooge. Scrooge involuntarily kneels before him and asks if he is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The phantom does not answer, and Scrooge squirms in terror.
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The Phantom moved away as it had come towards him. Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along.
Key learning points. In Stave 4, Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who shows Scrooge the shadows of things that "may be". Dickens refers to this ghost as a "phantom" rather than a spirit, characterising it as distinct from the others.
The third and final ghost strikes fear into Scrooge’s heart. Unlike the first two spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is a silent figure clad in a hooded black robe, almost indistinguishable from the surrounding darkness, and is as mysterious and unknowable as the future itself.
This phantom does not speak: its mysterious presence fills Scrooge with fear and dread of what is to come. When Scrooge asks if he is the ghost of Christmas Future, the black phantom...
Scrooge and the Phantom came into the presence of this man just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. But she had scarcely entered, when another woman came in with bundles, too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black.
It does not speak to him and beckons mysteriously with its hand. Scrooge guesses aloud that it is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and the ghost replies with a slight movement of its head. Though he fears the ghost, Scrooge urges it desperately to show him what it has for him.
