Marley is required to walk the earth and carry the chain as a punishment for his selfish and greedy behavior in his life. The chain represents the burdens of his misdeeds and serves as a reminder of the consequences of his actions. He is trapped in this state until he learns to atone for his sins and make amends.
Marley's ghost is forced to carry a chain made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel". These represented his failings during his life.
Jacob Marley was doomed to wander the earth for eternity as "pennance" for his evil treatment of humankind while he lived. Charles Dickens describes his punishment by providing the visual context of the great chain Marley wears when he appears to Ebeneezer Scrooge. The chain has many items attached, including money boxes, to symbolize those things that were most important to Marley. Marley declares that Scrooge's own chain was every bit as "long and ponderous" as Marley's a full seven years previously when Marley died. Scrooge's only chance for redemption, then, appears to be a full repentance from the greed and avarice of his life's work, and a new and honest interest in the affairs of others.
who on earth knows that! well, i guess Marley's owner does.
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Jacob Marley's punishment in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" involves being bound in chains and tormented by the burden of the heavy chain due to his greed and selfishness in life. He is condemned to wander the earth in misery and regret, unable to find peace until he can make amends for his past sins.
Because of his sins against Man.
That if he fails to change his miserly ways he would like Marley after his death suffer the torment of walking the earth for eternity.
Marley retruns as a Ghost to warn Scrooge that he must change his ways or be destined to walk the earth for ever in torment. Marley was allowed onlt to return and do this one good thing and then had to return to his destiny
After his death he will walk the earth as a ghost in eternal torment
Jacob Marley died seven years prior to our first meeting Scrooge. Due to the way he treated people and put business above that of mankind he was doomed to walk the earth in everlasting torment. He speaks of the chain to which he is tethered as created by him in life and its decoration of keys locks safes, money bags and ledgers all represent what he put before mankind
Jacobs return was the start of the changes that Scrooge was to undertake before Christmas Day. Marley tells Scrooge that he (Marley) will walk the earth for eternity because of his attitude to his fellow man. It was a punishment that he did not want Scrooge to endure
because he just did