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A Christmas Carol
In this novel, family is portrayed as one of the most important elements of one's happiness. Fred, Scrooge's nephew, continues to invite him, year after year, to his Christmas celebration; why do...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge thinks that Marley's ghost is merely the result of some indigestion. He says, "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge is depicted as an outsider from the very beginning of A Christmas Carol. This is clearly shown in the opening of stave one when Dickens talks about Scrooge's reputation in the neighborhood....
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A Christmas Carol
To create this poem, there are two things you need to think about. First of all, remember that figurative language is the name given to lots of different literary devices, like irony, metaphor,...
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A Christmas Carol
The first paragraph of the story uses several figures of speech. The paragraph runs: Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by...
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A Christmas Carol
Dickens uses the Ghost of Christmas Past to give the reader an insight into Scrooge's early life. On their journey together, the reader learns about Scrooge's childhood, for instance, in which he...
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A Christmas Carol
In A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim represents the importance of charity in Scrooge's Victorian society. Tiny Tim is the son of Scrooge's employee, Bob, and suffers from a medical condition which has...
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A Christmas Carol
Just as the fog prevents people from seeing clearly in the literal sense, the fog seems to be presented as symbolic of Scrooge's inability to see in a figurative sense: he cannot see what his real...
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A Christmas Carol
We actually cannot know with certainty whether or not Scrooge really encountered the four ghosts (including the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner) or whether he only dreamed that...
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A Christmas Carol
In Stave One of A Christmas Carol, we meet Scrooge and his employee, Bob Cratchit, for the first time. From their conversation, it is clear Scrooge's attitude towards Bob is cold and uncaring and...
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A Christmas Carol
This quotation comes in the middle of a rebuke Scrooge receives from the Ghost of Christmas Present. Scrooge, moved with pity toward Tiny Tim, asks the Spirit if the child will live. The Ghost...
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Reference
The ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's former business partner who died seven years before, appears before Scrooge in chains on the anniversary of his death. He tells Scrooge this same fate awaits...
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A Christmas Carol
The Cratchit family is grateful for their feast even though it is meager, and Scrooge realizes that you do not need much to be happy as long as you have people you love. The Cratchit family reminds...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge will not suffer his nephew's good cheer when he comes to visit his uncle's office. When Fred, Scrooge's jovial nephew, visits his uncle, he calls out swiftly as he enters, "A merry...
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, a cold and mean-spirited bachelor who shuns society in favour of personal wealth. As Christmas approaches, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of...
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A Christmas Carol
In the first stave of A Christmas Carol, the following quote is really important in characterizing Scrooge: Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching,...
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A Christmas Carol
When two gentlemen stop at Scrooge's offices early in Stave I of A Christmas Carol, one of them asks Scrooge to make "some slight provision" for the "poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge's change is the result of his being visited by the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, as well as three spirits: the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come. Jacob's ghost...
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A Christmas Carol
One of the reasons to recommend this book is that it has been very popular since it was written in 1843. For a book to be popular consistently for that long must mean there is something to it!...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge changed in a number of ways as a result of his visit with the Ghost of Christmas Present, mainly because of the tactics employed by the spirit. The Ghost of Christmas Present relies...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge demonstrates that he has changed because first he refuses to celebrate Christmas with his nephew or help anyone else celebrate it, then he asks about helping the poor, and finally he sends...
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A Christmas Carol
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to come is more frightening because his features are less distinct and he represents death. Dickens is very careful to not show too much detail with the Ghost of...
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A Christmas Carol
Martha, the oldest daughter of Bob Crachit, hides in order to surprise her father, who entertains the hope that she can come for Christmas dinner because, like him, she must work this day. When the...
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A Christmas Carol
In the beginning of the novel, Scrooge lives by himself, cuts himself off from other people, rebuffs overtures from his nephew to visit for Christmas, and cares only about money. He is hardhearted...
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A Christmas Carol
From the very first visit by Jacob Marley, Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, is beginning to change. With each of the ghosts, he becomes more and more afraid of what lies before him...
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A Christmas Carol
In A Christmas Carol, the setting provides an accurate description of life in Industrial London during the mid-19th century when wealth was unevenly distributed and the poor experienced much...
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A Christmas Carol
Jacob Marley was Scrooge’s business partner in the counting house. Jacob Marley died seven years before the book began. Before that, he was the closest thing that Scrooge had to a friend. The...
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A Christmas Carol
In A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim was the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Cratchit. The boy was crippled, so "he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame." He was small in...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens presents Scrooge as a completely transformed man in the final stave of A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the book, Scrooge growls in his miserliness. At the end of the book,...
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A Christmas Carol
The irony of your question is that the statement not only involves capitalization and punctuation errors but also is completely false. An accurate correction of both form and content would be as...
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A Christmas Carol
It is a tie. The two characters that have the greatest impact on Scrooge are the ghost of Christmas future as well as Tiny Tim. The goodness, holiness, purity, and youth of Tiny Tim contrast so...
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A Christmas Carol
Since A Christmas Carol is a novel, it would be an arduous task to list every time Dickens uses figurative language. However, here are some examples that give a sense of how the author uses...
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A Christmas Carol
Ah, what a transformation Scrooge experiences after his encounter with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future! He wakes up and takes to the streets on Christmas day a new person. He is so...
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A Christmas Carol
The Ghost of Christmas Past looks both old and young at the same time. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge’s friend Jacob Marley visits him. Normally, that would not be a big deal. However, Jacob died...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843; it was released in December of that year. Since Dickens seems to have written the novel in a way that felt contemporary to his readers, we can...
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A Christmas Carol
Although I'm not sure which "first paragraph" you are referring to, I will take the first two paragraphs of when the Spirit of Christmas Present brings Scrooge to Cratchit's house. Here the...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge arrives with the ghost at a "bright, dry, gleaming" room where his nephew Fred and friends—we are told about twenty—are enjoying Christmas. As the scene opens, the guests have just...
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A Christmas Carol
Certainly Bob Cratchit is incredibly mistreated by his employer, Ebenezer Scrooge, and he does manage to retain his basic human dignity. His holidays still have meaning, he provides for his family...
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A Christmas Carol
Ignorance and Want, the children of humankind, cling to the Ghost of Christmas Present because, in Scrooge's (and Dickens's present), they are children, young, a new kind of social problem. To be...
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A Christmas Carol
The Ghost of Christmas Present helps Scrooge become a better person by showing him people who get more out of life than he does. Scrooge is a lonely, miserable man. He has no one in his life...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge is deeply affected when he learns of Tiny Tim’s death, and devastated when he realizes the man whose lonely life he has been seeing is his own. By the time the last ghost comes for...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge is dismissive and disparaging of everyone who tries to get him to celebrate Christmas. When the story opens, it is Christmas Eve. Scrooge is grumpy, as always. He is a little grumpier than...
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge is not a man who usually asks questions. He is used to being in control, sure of his opinions and his wealth. But the spirits intervene in order to change his heart completely. In order to...
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A Christmas Carol
Question 1: Scrooge’s name has come to mean someone who is grumpy and stingy, and he shows both of the qualities when he interacts with other characters in the beginning of the story. Bob...
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A Christmas Carol
In describing Scrooge as a physically cold person: his cheeks "shrivelled" by the cold, his lips "blue" and his white hair, eyebrows and beard pictured as a "frosty rime," Dickens also describes...
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A Christmas Carol
"A Christmas Carol" is a story with a strong message about the importance of reformation, but despite its sincerity, it is littered with instances of humor and light-heartedness. Arguably, Dickens...
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A Christmas Carol
Crucial to this story is the idea that individual actions can transform the future, for good or ill. Supernatural events—the multiple appearances of ghosts—break into Scrooge's life, causing...
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A Christmas Carol
In short, a student can analyze Charles Dickens’ writing by plucking out representative examples from the text and explaining the writing style using those examples. Often, an instructor will...
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A Christmas Carol
Whether or not you find Belle to be "rich" depends on your definition of the term. If you are referring to money, we don't hear much about her financial situation either way. The fact that she...
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A Christmas Carol
The Ghost of Christmas Past is bright and indistinct, and the Ghost of Christmas Present is jovial and colorful. Scrooge is a grumpy old miser when his friend Jacob Marley decides to give him a...