The four Ghosts in Christmas Carol

Quote of Christmas Carol

Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.

Scrooge passion

Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?"

question

the ghost of christmas yet to come represents Scrooge's future. the ghost is "shrouded in a deep black garment" - its mysterious appearance implies that the future cannot be known for sure.

the ghost is silent and intimidating. it points instead of speaking, and won't answer Scrooge's questions. this adds to the sense of mystery surrounding it.

it's only when Scrooge begins to beg that the ghost shows any kind of reaction at all - its 'kind hand trembled". this could suggest that the ghost pities Scrooge, reminding he reader that the ghosts are trying to help him.

Quote of Christmas Carol

"'Come in! and knoe me better, man!' Scrooge entered timidly"

How he behaves it is how tran in Scrooge.

"its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust."

comparisons to father christmas

"'A tremendous family to provide for!' muttered Scrooge"

The old Scrooge.

"Because it needs it most."
"Spirit," said Scrooge, after a moment's thought, "I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment."
"I!" cried the Spirit.
"You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all," said Scrooge. "Wouldn't you?"
"I!" cried the Spirit.
"You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day," said Scrooge. "And it comes to the same thing."
"I seek!" exclaimed the Spirit.
"Forgive me if I am wrong. It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family," said Scrooge.

The old Scrooge

Ghost show Scrooge

Repond to Scrooge

beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last. Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows. But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs Cratchit left the room alone -- too nervous to bear witnesses -- to take the pudding up and bring it in.
Suppose it should not be done enough? Suppose it should break in turning out? Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the back-yard, and stolen it, while they were merry with the goose -- a supposition at which the two young Cratchits became livid? All sorts of horrors were supposed.

They did have enough food but they are saying it is good food but is not.

"If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

He is bolting

The mention of his name cost a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.

peperstion the scrooge family

From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.
"Oh, Man, look here! Look, look, down here!" exclaimed the Ghost.
They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
'spirit! are they yours?' Scrooge could say no more.

to chiyren arrests

"They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end."

Haman kinds

"Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.
"Are there no prisons?" said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. "Are there no workhouses?"

Another may thing point

the ghost of christmas present is compassionate. it sprinkles incense and water from its torch as a blessing, and it restores the "good humour" of angry people so that they can enjoy Christmas.

the ghost is closely associated with abundance and generosity. for example, the torch the spirit carries carries resembles "plenty's horn" (a symbol of abundance from Greek and Roman mythology) and it generously sprinkles blessings from it on those who need it most.

its scabbard has no sword in it, and used - suggesting that Christmass should be a time for peace, not fighting other people.

Quote of Christmas Carol

"Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail"

'fog, darkness thickened, chattering, froze head up, the cold became intense, lighted a great fire, ragged men, gathered, warming their hands, winking, water-plug, congealed, ice, crackled'

listing and describing

"biting"

references to the cold

"clod as bones are gnawed by dogs"

similes

"I'll be bound?"

question mark

"A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December! said Scrooge, buttoning his great-cost to the chin"

compound sentence

"Marley's role is to warn Scrooge about what will happen after he dies"

If Scrooge don't change, he will doomed to roam world forever as a ghost like Marley.

Being doomed - when bad thing will keep happening

Marley and Scrooge they were a business partner. They had the some personality "two kindred spirits"

Spirits - attitude, frame of mid (thinking), outlook

Quote of Christmas Carol

"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil."

Scrooge begins to understand the effect of his meanness towards Bob Cratchit, and the power that he has to improve Bob's life. Fezziwig give Scrooge an example of the kind of boss that he cloud choose to be.

They have a power to work to make people wappy.

"'No,' said Scrooge, 'No, I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now! That's all." His former self turned down the lamps as he gave utterance to the wish; and Scrooge and the Ghodt again stood size by side in open air."

Scrooge is changing again.

Thinking about Bob Cratchit and how he teast him very, very badly.

"You are changed. When it was made, you were another man."

He is like money than her.

"do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do; and I release you. With a full heart, for the love of him you once were".

"Why do you delight to torture me?"

He is sad

"'Spirit!' said Scrooge in a broken voice, 'remove me from this place.'"

Its Voice is "low" as if "it were at a distance"

He's voice proking

"'Remove me!' Scrooge exclaimed, 'I cannot bear it!'"

Repation

"Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright;"

Light of true

"he could not hide the light:"

He can't true

The Ghost of Christmas Carol Past's appearance is a strange mixture of child-like and aged. it's connected though Scrooge's memory, to different stages of Scrooge's life.

a 'bright, clear jet of light' shines from its heard - this light could symbolise the truth that can be found in memories.

the ghost is strong but quiet. its voice is "low" as if "it were at a distance" - like it's speaking to Scrooge from somewhere far away, or long ago. this emphasises the spirit's connection to Scrooge's distant past.

The ghost helps the reader sympathise with Scrooge by showing us that parts of his childhood were miserable. and that he wasn't always so cold and unfeeling.