3 spirits
Three ghosts
When Marley's ghost visited Scrooge he warned him about the ghosts and his behaviour.
Merely explains that without their council Scrooge may expect the same fate as he was suffering - everlasting torment.
Marley appeared to Scrooge and warned him about changing his behavior. Marley also told Scrooge he would be visited by three ghosts.
Marley told of three ghosts
This was Marley telling Scrooge that he (Marley) was allowed to come back to Scrooge to tell Scrooge of his inpending eternal life of torment should he not make changes to the way he lives his life now and sees mankind as his business not just the money he can get from them
Marley appeared in the fist instance and warned Scrooge that his miserly life style and attitude to others would see him suffer eternal torment in the next life and that he (Marley) had been allowed back to this life just once to warning and help him
Scrooge rebuffs Marley by stating he could be a piece of undigested beef or an uncookted bit of potatoe indeed there was more gravey than grave in what scrooge see
Jacob Marley was Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." He was the very first ghostly visitor to Scrooge on Christmas Eve to tell Scrooge that he would be visited by three other spirits that night. The opening sentences of the book are "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
In the original script of the story the apparition or Marley could not be fully recognised. Seven years had passed since Scrooge had seen his old partner and in the gloom of the room and the dark shadowy figure that presented its elf Scrooge was to to "Ask Who I Once Was" so that Marley could correctly tell him it was his partner in like
As a spirit he was woeful and desperate to tell Scrooge of his impending doom
He showed him aspects of the past, present, and future. He made Scrooge realize what was happening in the lives of his poor worker. He showed him (Scrooge) himself. He saw how cruel he was and what would happen if he did not change his ways. He saw too much and decided to change his and Tiny Tim's future.To tell Scrooge his bad deed an wrong doings.