Literary Devices In A Christmas Carol

To conclude, these quotes clearly show Scrooge’s transition from a mean man to a kind and nice

Had Scrooge not been developed as a character in the way he was, would the story A Christmas Carol, have become such a famous and well known novel as it is now? Scrooge’s character development in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, was essential to the plot of the novel. The appearance, behaviors, and reactions all contributed to the character development of the infamous Ebenezer Scrooge. In order for the novel to truly convey its theme, the appearance, behaviors, and most importantly reactions, needed to be well developed in the main character, Scrooge.

A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens is a cautionary tale where the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, changes from a grumpy, reclusive man into a happy and appreciative. His old business partner, Marley, visited Scrooge and informed him that three spirits would visit him. The three spirits: The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come helped Scrooge realize how cruel he is and transforms him into a cheerful man. A Christmas Carol takes place in London, England during the joyous Christmas season in the Victorian Era (1840s). Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold, mean-spirited and miserly man who is the owner of a London counting-house.

In 'A Christmas Carol', Charles Dickens represents Scrooge as an unsympathetic man who is offered the opportunity to redeem himself. Through the use of language, the reader is positioned to view him adversely, but during the journey of the morality lessons shown by four phantoms. In the form of an allegory, we will discover how Dickens demonstrates a defiant and isolated character in Stave One. In a Christmas carol, Dickens portrays his protagonist, scrooge, unfavourably. ‘Solitary’ is an adjective which Dickens implanted into the prose so that the readers could grow a stronger dislike for him as it infers that he is anti-social and unpleasant, ‘solitary’ also relates to Scrooge as he has the characteristics of someone in solitude.

In the short story “A Christmas Memory” there is a huge amount of imagery, which helps us as the audience visualize how the characters appear, how the setting looks, as well as the objects around them. With imagery we can picture ourselves in that time period, in the exact situation in which the characters are in. There are different kinds of imagery that can set a different kind of mood. “The black stove, stoked with coal and firewood, glows like a lighted pumpkin”. From this example we can assume that it is that time into the season when it is cold and some people use their stoves to keep warm.

In Taylor Swift’s remake of “Last Christmas” she tells her story of betrayal and the hurt she feels after finally opening her heart to someone, just for them to cheat on her. The hurt and deception she was confronted with broke her down to the point where she couldn’t even look or see him face to face. She shares her mix of emotions between being angry at how easy he got over her after cheating and sad because he left her for someone new. This song paints a masterpiece of how painful your actions could be on someone else, with all of the hyperboles and idioms it uses.

Imagery allows a reader to imagine the events of a story within their mind through mental images. Imagery can describe how something looks, a sound, a feeling, a taste, or a smell. Imagery is especially important when the author is describing a character or a setting. The short story The Man In The Black Suit by Stephen King has several excellent examples of imagery.

Imagery is a way of writing that the author gives you visual descriptive writing or figurative language. One quote that stood out to me was “There would be other Sheila Mant’s in life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secrets, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made that mistake again. ”(41) This quote has a lot of meaning in this story

The final example that Dickens uses is ignorance. Scrooge

Looking for Change Hurts Many film and literature characters fail to leave an impact on the reader. This is not the case for Charles Dickens’ character Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol and Frank Capra’s creation of a character, George Bailey from It’s a Wonderful Life. Both protagonists are beloved characters, but have drastic similarities and differences. Ebenezer Scrooge and George Bailey are best compared by their outlook on life, time spent with the spirits, and each character’s transformation in the story.

By comparing and contrasting how he feels at the exposition and the end of the novel and going through the ghost’s visions influenced both Scrooge and us, the readers. Any reader can come to realize that he is an emotionally changed character for life. On top of that, readers can take away many valuable lessons. This classic novel will forever be cherished with the journey to the Victorian times, the meeting of spectacular characters along the way, but especially the remembrance of old Ebenezer Scrooge, the true father of Christmas spirit. As Dickens has said once, “God bless us every one.”

The original book was supposed to be made for the public, but due to Charles getting the illustrations hand painted, it was only affordable for the wealthy. It was meant to bring light to the focus on making money, and how it was ruining people's lives. Scrooge represents the greed that many of the business owners had. Ignorance and Want, the children found underneath the Ghost of Christmas presents robe, represent society abandoning the poor due to ignorance and want. They can also represent the child labor that was occurring in factories.

Regardless, Dickenson expresses his thought of the social changes in this novel of what was happening in that period to what moral person should be. Therefore, there is an obvious treatment in the different social classes. As a result, Christmas Carol is distinguished because in the novel, Scrooge the main character, is a wealthy old man therefore he does not care about anything or anyone. Meanwhile, in the dream of the future, tt saw himself dead yet nobody cared that he died.

Dr. Seuss’ poem, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” can be analyzed using many different schools of criticism, however, the psychoanalytical school of criticism holds allows us to truly understand the “true meaning” behind the poem. The poem begins with a socially isolated character, the Grinch, who loathes Christmas and wishes to completely destroy it. He wants to completely eliminate Christmas from “Whoville.” The Grinch gets irritated whenever when he hears the singing from the children and sees families feasting together in the holiday season. However, as the poem progress, the Grinch starts to feel the love and happiness involved with Christmas and ends up correcting his wrongdoings to ultimately enjoy Christmas with the “Whos.”

When the ghosts started coming he started changing , each time one ghost came he changed little by little . In the book “ a christmas carol “ by charles dickens , the theme is influenced by the process of change by scrooge 's character , and the ways he changed through the ghost 's appearance in the story. In the beginning of The story, Scrooge’s selfish behavior is evident until he meets the Ghost of Christmas Past. Two charitable