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The ghost of Jacob Marley tells his old partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, that, in the afterlife, he is like a "captive, bound, and double-ironed," because he is not only imprisoned by his heavy chains ...
Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow. “That is no light part of my penance,” pursued the Ghost. “I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.”. “You were always a good friend to me,” said Scrooge. “Thank’ee!”.
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On a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve in London, a shrewd, mean-spirited cheapskate named Ebenezer Scrooge works meticulously in his counting-house. Outside the office creaks a little sign reading \"Scrooge and Marley\"--Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, has died seven years previous. Inside the office, Scrooge watches over his clerk, a poor dim...
Suddenly, a ruddy-faced young man bursts into the office offering holiday greetings and an exclamatory, \"Merry Christmas!\" The young man is Scrooge's jovial nephew Fred who has stopped by to invite Scrooge to Christmas dinner. The grumpy Scrooge responds with a \"Bah! Humbug!\" refusing to share in Fred's Christmas cheer. After Fred departs, a pa...
The opening Stave of A Christmas Carol sets the mood, describes the setting, and introduces many of the principal characters. It also establishes the novel's allegorical structure. (Allegory, a type of narrative in which characters and events represent particular ideas or themes, relies heavily on symbolism. In this case, Scrooge represents greed, ...
Dec 15, 2021 · Stave 1, after all, is given over to Marley’s Ghost telling Scrooge straight that he is going to die, and soon, and explaining what it will be like afterwards and that therefore he must change ...
Stave One, pages 10–20: Marley’s Ghost has a message for Scrooge Key language: The door knocker Edward Westmacott. Dickens devotes a whole paragraph to the description of Scrooge’s door knocker, helping the reader to visualise it, but also ensuring that we understand its full significance – Scrooge isn’t the sort of person who sees things and Marley has been dead for years.
Marley’s ghost visits Scrooge and warns him of his impending damnation if he does not change his ways ; Dickens uses Marley's ghost to convey Christian ideas of penance and remorse; The chains and cash boxes that Marley's ghost wears show that he wasted his life in pursuit of solely material gain
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Key language: Scrooge’s determined character; Key quotation: Marley’s torment; Key context: The 1834 new Poor Law; Aiming high: Narrative tricks; Stave Two, pages 21–3: Waiting for the first ghost; Stave Two, pages 23–5: The Ghost of Christmas Past; Stave Two, pages 25–30: Scrooge’s unhappy childhood; Stave Two, pages 30–4 ...
