A Christmas Carol

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!

Mr. Fezziwig values kindness, generosity, and creating a sense of community among those he interacts with. He shows care and consideration towards others, and places importance on fostering positive relationships and helping those in need.

Initially we see Scrooge as an oppressive employer who seeks to domineer Bob and treat him harshly. Then when seeing the visions of his own past and how Fezziwig treated him and his employees Scrooges attitude starts to change. And then in stave 5 we see Scrooge, the changed man soften toward Bob and raise his salary immediately plus seek to help Tiny Tim

The spirit through that stave is the Ghost of Christmas Present

Yes, he showed Scrooge his own grave, untended, as no one would care or mourn his death if he did not change his ways.

Scrooge closed the window, and examined the door through which the Ghost had entered. It was double-locked, as he had locked it with his own hands previously, and the bolts undisturbed. He tried to say "Humbug!" but stopped at the first syllable

There are quite a number used. Dicken was himself a wordsmith and took great joy in creating new phrases and words to underpin his writing

The Similes

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail - This term still used today was the creation of Dicken for this book

like a bad lobster in a dark cellar

solitary as an oyster

home' like heaven

Old Fezziwig's calves are described as looking "like moons"

Some Metaphors

The houses opposite were mere phantoms

Personification

a church, whose gruff old bell was peeping slily down at Scrooge

misanthropic ice

like Spanish Friars

congenial frost

the crisp air laughed

Tiny Tim is described as being "as good as gold"

Allusions:

Cains and Abels

Pharaoh's daughter

Queens of Sheba

Ali Baba

Robin Crusoe

Symbolism:

Marley's chain

All three ghosts

fire

Are these the visions of will be or could be

The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to;

His old School

To Fezziwigs warehouse

To Belles home

Ghost of Christmas Present

The streets of London on Christmas Morning

Bob Cratchits home

The mines of Wales

A Light house

Freds Home

Many home these visited to witness the festive season

The Ghost of Chrsitmas Yet to come

To the Corn Exchange

Old Joes ' beetling shop

Scrooges bedroom

Caroline and her husbands rented home

Through the London street to Bob Cratchits home

Then to Scrooges old office but now used by someone else

To the grave yard where Scrooges headstone lay

In "A Christmas Carol," the men collecting money are raising funds for the poor and needy during the Christmas season. They aim to provide food, shelter, and assistance to those less fortunate in the community.

The first of the three Christmas spirits who visits Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas Past. This spirit takes Scrooge on a journey through his past to help him reflect on his life choices and actions.

He demanded that the ghost "remove him from this place"

When the Ghost of Christmas Present removed his bandage in "A Christmas Carol," Scrooge saw two starving children, named Ignorance and Want, hiding beneath the ghost's robe. This moment serves as a powerful message to Scrooge about the consequences of ignorance and neglect of those in need.

In stave one Dickens writes "Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him.

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas"

The ghost foretold by Jacob Marley appeared at One a.m. Marley states, "Without their visits," said the Ghost, "you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when the bell tolls One."

"Couldn't I take 'em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?" hinted Scrooge.

"Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate".

He sees all other ghosts, some he recognises as business people all moaning and crying as they are forced to walk the earth in eternal torment for not showing a charitable nature to those who had much less than themselves

n stave one he sees a myriad spirits moaning and groaning as they try to get to those living people in view to help them. Many Scrooge recognises as business people. These too, like Marley were doomed to walk the earth in everlasting torment

The main spirit that changes in their section of the story is the Ghost of Christmas Present. He becomes older as he takes Scrooge through the events of the current year. As his time ends he also become more impatient with Scrooge to emphasises the urgency of changing his ways

Bob Cratchit had a small, plump goose for the Cratchit family's Christmas dinner before Scrooge bought them a large turkey.

There were four spirits that visited Scrooge that night: the ghost of his dead partner Marley; the Ghost of Christmas Past, who "took" Scrooge back in time to Christmases--both good and bad--when Scrooge was younger; the Ghost of Christmas Present, who "took" him to his nephew Fred's home and the Crachit's home, to show him how joyously they were enjoying the season, in spite of being poor; and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who "took" him into the future to scenes relating to Scrooge's own death. Scrooge convinced the last Spirit to leave by promising it he would change.

The character of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol has been portrayed by various actors in different adaptations of the story. Some well-known portrayals include Henry Winkler, Tiny Tim in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Evan Pappas in A Christmas Carol on Broadway (2001), and Seth Adkins in A Christmas Carol (1999).

Dickens uses the image of teh "grim reaper" that we all associate with death to bring a dark mood to the stave. He ensures that Scrooges questions are met only with visions and the ghost pointing to events which Scrooge has difficulty understanding. Even when he hears about the death of someone Scrooge become fearful and that is conveyed by his pleading of the ghost to tell him who the poor creature was that died. Finally he takes Scrooge to see the lovely corpse and those people who steal his belongings and sell these until finally he is shown the grave bearing on solitary word......... His name

Belle is depicted as kind, compassionate, and selfless. She shows a strong sense of empathy and understanding towards others, particularly towards Ebenezer Scrooge. Belle is also portrayed as strong-willed and independent, as seen in her decision to end her engagement with Scrooge due to his growing greed and obsession with wealth.

The boy who stood in front of Scrooge's house on Christmas was a "solitary child, neglected by his friends." He was a poor, ragged, and hungry boy who wished Scrooge a Merry Christmas but was chased away by him.