Explore the ways that Scrooge's emoitions change in "A Christmas Carol"
Explore the ways that Scrooge’s emotions change in “A Christmas Carol”
The story will not leave us, but will “haunt” us “pleasantly” as Dickens hoped. We are experiencing this by exploring the ways that emotions of main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, change during reading “A Christmas Carol”.
Charles Dickens uses a lot of adjectives and many similes in order to present a clear image of what Scrooge looks like, as well as his personality, and this is before we have ever met him: “Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice”.
The fact his nose is “pointed” emphasises his sharp and unforgiving nature, which has shown perfectly when he refused to help “poor” by donating some money. For Scrooge it would be better “if they would rather die”, as he “can’t afford to make idle people merry”.
Scrooge is described as being “solitary as an oyster”. This simile suggests he is shut up, tightly closed and will not be prised open except by force. However, oysters often contain pearls, so this simile also suggests there might be good buried deep inside him, underneath the hard, brittle shell.
Scrooge is so mean and greedy that rather than spend money painting out his business partner, Jacob Marley’s, name above the door of the office he prefers to leave it as it is: “Scrooge never painted out old Marley’s name”. He leaves miserable life with no friends, as “nobody ever stopped him in the street”.
Scrooge doesn’t celebrate Christmas and think:” Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with stake of holly through his heart”. Cheerful and jolly Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, provides opposite argument. His believe that man and women should “open their shut-up heats freely” and think of others as well as themselves is, in fact, the
The story will not leave us, but will “haunt” us “pleasantly” as Dickens hoped. We are experiencing this by exploring the ways that emotions of main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, change during reading “A Christmas Carol”.
Charles Dickens uses a lot of adjectives and many similes in order to present a clear image of what Scrooge looks like, as well as his personality, and this is before we have ever met him: “Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice”.
The fact his nose is “pointed” emphasises his sharp and unforgiving nature, which has shown perfectly when he refused to help “poor” by donating some money. For Scrooge it would be better “if they would rather die”, as he “can’t afford to make idle people merry”.
Scrooge is described as being “solitary as an oyster”. This simile suggests he is shut up, tightly closed and will not be prised open except by force. However, oysters often contain pearls, so this simile also suggests there might be good buried deep inside him, underneath the hard, brittle shell.
Scrooge is so mean and greedy that rather than spend money painting out his business partner, Jacob Marley’s, name above the door of the office he prefers to leave it as it is: “Scrooge never painted out old Marley’s name”. He leaves miserable life with no friends, as “nobody ever stopped him in the street”.
Scrooge doesn’t celebrate Christmas and think:” Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with stake of holly through his heart”. Cheerful and jolly Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, provides opposite argument. His believe that man and women should “open their shut-up heats freely” and think of others as well as themselves is, in fact, the