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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 ...
As Marley knows, Scrooge’s currently invisible chain consists of the same items, because the two men made the same choices and focused on the same things in their lives. “How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.”. It was not an agreeable idea.
4.7 (137 reviews) Stave 1 - description of Scrooge's relationship with Marley. The repetition of the word 'sole' emphasises the fact that Scrooge was all Marley had, implying that the opposite was also true. Therefore, this shows the reader that Scrooge is alone and friendless. In addition, Dickens sets up a clear link between the two - so much ...
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!
The chains and cash boxes that Marley's ghost wears show that he wasted his life in pursuit of solely material gain; Marley's ghost verbalises Dickens' message about the importance of being charitable and socially responsible; Marley's ghost's visit could be said to be a catalyst in Scrooge's transformation
Marley’s Ghost’s role in the novella. Jacob Marley was Scrooge’s business partner, and the narrator goes to some lengths to make us accept he is dead. His Ghost appears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve with a warning for Scrooge about the need to change his focus in life from money to ‘mankind’. In the story it:
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Ebenezer Scrooge is the protagonist (main character) of ‘A Christmas Carol’. He is a banker or ‘moneylender’ of sorts who owned his own ‘counting house’ alongside his late business partner Jacob Marley. In the opening of the novella, Scrooge is presented as a miserly and misanthropic (someone who dislikes other people) businessman ...
