Character Profile - Scrooge

Miserable, Tight-fisted and is redeemed by the end.
Scrooge is the main character of the novella. And is first presented as a misery unpleasant old man.
1. He rejects all offerings of Christmas cheer, "humbug"
2. By the end of the story, scrooge is a changed man, and is generous with everyone.
Cold Hearted
1. According to Dickens's description, Scrooge is cold hearted throughout the play.
  1. 'No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him'
  2. Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to represent Scrooges nature. The weather is a metaphor for his behaviour.
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, warning him that three spirits will come and visit him.
1. The three spirits shows him a scene that strikes fear, and he eventually changes.
Misery
1. Scrooge is stingy with his money and won't even let his Clerk Bob Cratchit have a fire to warm him on Christmas Day.
2. '...As the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part'
3. The indirected speech shows that Scrooge is threatening and is in charge.
ILL-Mannered
1. His nephew visits him, to wish him a 'Merry Christmas' and Scrooge is rude to him in response.
2. 'Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'
3. Scrooge's response is comical, but unpleasant. He cannot accept the generosity, and turns it into violence.
Self-Deluded
1. When we sees Marley's ghost, Scrooge tries to deny its existence by attributing the vision to something he has eaten.
2. 'You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese..'
3. Although Scrooge is afraid of the ghost he tries to maintain his authority even over his own senses.

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