Bah Humbug Summary

It relates to the novel because it talks about what you do with your time matters. What Marley did with his time was different than what everyone else does. Marley died because of how he used his time. Some people can die too of being so unhappy or too lonely. “My spirit never walked beyond the counting house.” (Dickens 11) Marley never went beyond the counting house and nor does Scrooge so they are using their time poorly. Staying in the same environment becomes very bland to the mind and can cause someone to become unhappy like say if you were cooped up in your house for a week. It would make anyone feel grumpy or lonely. Scrooge does not care about Christmas he only cares about work. He thinks he is using his time well but the Ghosts and

Scrooge lives in a gloomy suite of rooms, which is so old and dreary that Scrooge is the only one who lives there. This is where Scrooge encountered Marley, on Christmas Eve seven years to the date when he passed away. Marley firsts appears on the door where the knocker sits, “but looked at scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up upon is ghostly forehead. Scrooge is not an easily frightened man, but from the sight of the ghostly face, he becomes slightly unnerved, and double looks himself in as an attempt to dismiss the ghostly face. “I won’t believe it,” once again is presented with a ghostly figure, “ I know him!

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A Christmas Carol begins with the information that Marley, business partner and co-owner of ‘Scrooge and Marley’ counting house has been dead for 7 years. The other half of the business owner, Scrooge; however, was very much alive and continued the business. Scrooge has sharp and angular aged features and a stiff walk. No one in particular cares about him and he makes it apparent that they know he does not as well. To certify this description of him, when his nephew greets him with a “Merry Christmas”, Scrooge mutters a “Bah Humbug” and quickly dismisses his excitement for the holiday. He thinks that Christmas is a waste of money and finding another year has passed by and one is no richer. A similar exchange occurs with another man.

Ebenezer Scrooge had changed a lot throughout the screenplay and movies. In the story, Scrooge had started out as a rich miser who didn’t care about anything but himself and his business. He ended up being a kind man who helped everyone he could and gave back to the community. He had changed in many ways and had been shown what he had become. Marley helped Scrooge realize that he had made everyone turn away from him and think poorly of him, and that some people like Bob Cratchit and his nephew, had hoped that he could change. Scrooge’s encounters with the spirits had shown him the most.

First, Scrooge’s Co-Worker, Jacob Marley passes away on Christmas Eve one year and will never come back. Scrooge continues on with his life, although

chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind!

In 'A Christmas Carol', Dickens represents Scrooge as a 'squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner' who is against Christmas and happiness and values money, yet given a chance to redeem his fate. Marley's Ghost has come to warn Scrooge to change

Marley tells Scrooge that he will be visited by 3 ghosts and to take heed of what happens. The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows the past of Scrooge. In the past, Scrooge was a happy young man that he was very enjoy his Christmas Eve. He was also a carefree and in love. Scrooge had a younger sister who passed away early and his sister leaving a child Fred. Scrooge was very love his sister but he did not like her child. When his adult life, he met a girl and the girl became his wife, Mrs. Scrooge. However, money became his greatest desire. His wife left him because his wife felt Scrooge love money more than her. Scrooge felt the

Why was everyone talking about the dead man, mean old Scrooge. According to the text no one even cared about Scrooge, they didn’t even care he died they just left him to die alone. A few examples of quotes are “He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead.”That quote describes Scrooge. That quote describes Scrooge. Another quote that describes Scrooge is “If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, a wicked old Scrooge.” One last example is “Spirit, said Scrooge shuddering from head to foot. I see I see, the case of this unhappy man. They all show how Scrooge was a bad person and how no one liked him and the only person that did died and his name was Jacob Marley. Everyone in town was gossiping about

Isolation is the main theme in this Stave. Scrooge is not involved in society and is not sympathetic in any way and is not liked by anybody. As it says in the text on page 3,” …. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say with gladsome looks,”My dear Scrooge, how are you?” …. No man or woman ever once in his life inquired the way to such and such a place.” Is also states in the very beginning, “Scrooge knew Marley was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.” Since Marley was his only friend when he died his only bridge to humanity was gone. Even with Bob Cratchit and his nephew around him, he never established that connection nor did he want to.

But Scrooge is not very content to see him, he wants to know where he’s gonna take him. As the ghost takes him to where they need to go they move to the big city and it looks like that somebody died, it states in the text that a man recited I don’t know all that I know is that he’s dead.It also

On page 23-24 of A Christmas Carol it states, “‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence was my business. The dealing of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensible ocean of my business!’” This shows me how Marley explaining what the true meaning of “business” was, was the first step to helping Scrooge participate in this business rather than his interpretation of business. After being visited by the Spirits, Scrooge does start living by the true meaning and is happier than ever. As it states on page 114 of A Christmas Carol, “‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy, I am as giddy as a drunken man.’” This shows me how once the true meaning went into Scrooge’s heart he became free of his greed and very happy with himself and his

This haste to put down Scrooge’s character was carried out by Dickens to set an impression of Scrooge as an overall negative character which is supposed to reflect, in exaggeration, the negative characteristics of the wealthy businessmen in Victorian society. The first stave also tries to pass Scrooge off as an isolated character, it does this through the use of repetition as the emphasis of Marley’s death is repeated several times in the first stave that even dickens admits this with the quote ‘permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail’ which basically means that Dickens is admitting that he has repeated that Marley is dead, this proves that repletion is used to allow the reader to gain the impression that Scrooge is an isolated character which. This isolation is further emphasized when Scrooge described love and Christmas, both very social occasions, in one statement as ‘the only thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas’, this proves Scrooge’s isolation and his anti-social characteristic. Scrooge is also comes off the first stave as an anti-social and cold character, this is proven because Scrooge repeatly dismisses his nephew who is trying to make friends with him with the quote ‘Good afternoon’ which proves Scrooge’s anti-social and cold character.

Later it is revealed that Scrooge was the one who had died. Here is how one family reacted to his death; “Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children’s faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter; and it was a happier house for this man’s death! The only emotion the Ghost could show him, caused by this event, was one of pleasure” (120). This family had owed money to the already very wealthy Scrooge.