during the Industrial Revolution‚ and explores the power of the Christmas spirit. His talented use of language features such as the striking emotive language‚ the clever and deliberate music-focused structure‚ and the brilliant characterisation of Scrooge are very effective in delivering his messages. The significant impact the novella has had on the audience of the Victoria Era and on the generations that followed through the effective use of language features‚ and hence delivery of messages‚ has
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life into that book. There’s also lots of ways he didn’t incorporate his life into that book. To start off‚ Charles Dickens was inspired by different aspects of his life that he put into A Christmas Carol. For example‚ he made the main character‚ Scrooge‚ a lot like his dad. Some traits they share are being mean and disrespectful. He also put himself in the book as Fred‚ Scrooge’s nephew. “Uncle! Pleaded the nephew. Nephew! Returned the old uncle sternly‚ keep Christmas in your own way and let
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strongly and intensely. Finally‚ I will be stating how the misleading views of some believing that the supernatural are involved is completely incorrect. If you may be so kind‚ I wouldn’t mind if I began. The main element of his change is obsession; Scrooge and Macbeth both have these aspects of their characters. Although the reasons behind their obsession are completely polar opposites‚ they both come from the same root cause‚ greed. Their obsession takes over the fact that any other emotion ever existed
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should not take precedence over empathy and compassion towards others. This is portrayed through the journey and transformation of the novella’s protagonist‚ Ebenezer Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is a misanthropic moneylender who is introduced as an extremely self-absorbed man with a callous attitude towards poverty. Relatively well-off‚ Scrooge demonstrates his refusal to assist those nine need and his egotistical personality seems to be the focal point throughout the first stave. This is portrayed through
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character named Scrooge‚ who detest Christmas and although wealthy he is also miserly. The book’s storyline is that‚ Scrooge is visited by ghosts‚ who reveal to him his future life and death. The horror of finding out that his demise is perilous. This book also shows how poor Victorians suffer and the treatment they used to get. The poor were sent to workhouses and scrooge was happy about this. Not because workhouses were helping the poor it was more of a punishment. Scrooge was ignorant in
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working classes in Victorian England by highlighting a variety of predicaments in which people from the poorer classes found themselves. Dickens brings out the social conditions of the working classes by describing the situation between Ebenezer Scrooge and his clerk‚ Bob Cratchit. In the opening sequence the clerk in his “dismal little cell beyond‚ a sort of a track” tries to warm himself at a candle with little success. Scrooge’s fire‚ although it was small‚ using little of the plentiful fuel
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synecdoches (Ignorance‚ Want and Tiny Tim) he makes sure that the reader feels sympathetic and focus on the troubles a majority of people in London were suffering with. He is able to empathise the social injustice caused by the ignorant rich people (like Scrooge) by using these young‚ fragile children as representatives of the poorer social classes. Dickens personifies age as a ‘shriveled hand’ and says that it ‘twisted them‚ and pulled them into shreds.’ This means that they are looking old where they should
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character Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is a unsympathetic pennypincher that does not give any thought to helping others. He is a complicated fellow who cares about money and business more than anything else. The author Ebenezer Scrooge as a way to convince readers that money should not always be the first priority. Making Scrooge realize that family is more important helps prove the theme: money should not be the only focus in life in the story. The author uses family to symbolize how Scrooge expedites money
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people all know that at first thought you think of old mean Scrooge. Scrooge has many sides to him‚ Scrooge shows us that even though he was rood and old he still has a heart deep down. “ Leaping from a stool‚ waistcoat he staggered back …. therefore I’m giving you a raise in your salary.” ( page by page) Also‚ Scrooge decides to give his nephew Fred a turkey‚ “ It was a turkey he never could have stood up on his legs‚ that bird.” Scrooge goes to heart and knows that Fred’s Family isn’t very rich
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The two iconic holiday villains are‚ bad‚ grumpy‚ lonely‚ and a hater of all things Who-related‚ The Grinch‚ from How the Grinch Stole Christmas‚ written by Dr. Seuss and the cheerless‚ misanthrope‚ miser‚ Scrooge‚ from The Christmas Carol‚ written by Charles Dickens. Both bad‚ beastly‚ brutal‚ and barbarous acting. Each character starts of bad‚ then turns good in the end‚ but the big question is which character is meaner? Out of both the Grinch and Scrooge’s reactions to Christmas; the Grinch
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