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    established archetype. What traits spring to mind? The Traits that spring to mind when I look at this picture are that he doesn’t seem like a very pleasant person‚ and is angry at something. 2. Read the sign in this photograph. Scrooge’s partner‚ Jacob Marley‚ is dead when the drama begins. How do moneylenders make money? Moneylenders are someone who offers small personal loans at high rates of interest. 3. These photos capture two different facial expressions. How does each actor use his face to

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    approached by Marley’s ghost he was exposed to his former business partner’s consequence. His spirit wore the “chain (he) forged in life”‚ a chain linked by the “dealings of (his) trade… a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of (his) business”. Marley and Scrooge’s ideals were parallel; they were hand in hand business

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    The novella‚ A Christmas Carol‚ by author Charles Dickens‚ talks about Ebenezer Scrooge‚ an old man known for his miserly ways. Scrooge is visited by several ghosts on Christmas Eve‚ starting off with his business partner‚ Jacob Marley. As the ghosts take Scrooge on many different scenes/memories‚ he learns lessons on the way. As a result‚ Scrooge is given a chance to change and make up for his miserly ways. Charles Dickens wants us to understand that the ‘business’ of being human is not always the

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    many similarities between the drama play and the movie. There are also many differences. In the play‚ Scrooge is a greedy‚ self centered man who cares for nothing but money and himself. His old‚ dead friend and partner‚ Marley‚ visits Scrooge in the night to tell him to change. Marley sends three spirits to haunt Scrooge to enforce that change. Scrooge is shown his past by the Spirit of Christmas Past. Past shows Scrooge a Christmas long ago where he is alone in the school house. “The schoolroom is

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    (Dickens 36). This quote refers to as the chains being something scary or something to be frightful of. The chains make it sound like they represent sins and the harmful things in life. When Marley visits Scrooge‚ he tells him that he should change his lifestyle and not make the same mistakes as Marley. Therefore‚ Scrooge is visited by three spirits who help him seek a better way of

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    does not say his name repeatedly to Scrooge. When Ebenezer looks out his window to see where the ghost of Marley went there are phantoms in the air. The Ghost of Christmas Past is a male. Scrooge does not dance with a woman. He wakes up on his bed instead of floor. The conversation between Ebenezer and his nephew‚ Fred‚ is short. The Ghost of Christmas Future does not make a screeching sound.

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    Christmas Eve. He rejects a Christmas dinner invitation‚ and all the good tidings of the holiday‚ from his jolly nephew‚ Fred; he yells at charity workers; and he overworks his employee‚ Bob Cratchit. At night‚ Scrooge’s former business partner Jacob Marley‚ dead for seven years‚ visits him in the form of a ghost. Marley’s spirit has been wandering since he died as punishment for being consumed with business and not with people while alive. He has come to warn Scrooge and perhaps save him from the

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    A “Christmas Carol” is an engaging social commentary written in the form of a novella‚ which outlines the plight of the poor‚ with the intention of altering the views of the wealthy‚ in Victorian London society. Dickens himself was a victim of the Poor Laws which were a by-product of the industrial Revolution‚ and wrote this novella with the hope of making life more bearable for the poor. Dickens uses the appealing nature of his descriptive novella‚ in order to subtly promote a change of attitude

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    Body #2-Then‚ Scrooge is most likely known as “Cruel” at the beginning of the story and because of Marley. The cause in this story is when the Ghost of Christmas showed Scrooge‚ Cratchit’s family and how healthy they were‚ because he thought the whole time that they were sick people that needed help and needed food to eat and‚ when scrooge treated him

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    A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens directed by Geri Neylan performed by Jaguar Theater‚ was one of the best experiences watching a play. The play drew me in by the amazing set that I got to see on a daily basis during drama. I also have been wanting to attend a play at Kimball. Another thing that drew my attention to this play was that I had seen the movie a while back and thought it would be better to see it in person. A Christmas Carol is a melodrama based on the foul business owner Ebeneezer

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