summary of christmas carol

Question 1

stave 1

Answer 1

scrooge refuses to celebrate Christmas and is stingy(parsimonious)

Interactions with Fred to which he shows miserably traits. Fred is the antithesis to Scrooge as he is positive and jovial.

Scrooge dismisses two gentlemen collecting money for charity

Scrooge returns home and he is visited by the First ghost -Marley

Marley is draped and chains symbolising that eternal punishment

Question 2

stave 2

Answer 2

The ghost of Christmas past visit Scrooge and he looked like an old man a young young man simultaneously

The ghost instantly brings him back to his hometown to which we see an emotional reaction from Scrooge – first time Scrooge is humanised in the Novela

Show Scrooge boarding school and being united with his younger sister Franny

Scrooge is also taken him back to a positive time where he was an apprentice for a man called Mr. Fezziwig.

A dark flashback from the past is shown by the ghost – the end of Bell and his marriage. She speaks about how Scrooge idolises money over love.

Question 3

stave 3

Answer 3

The third ghost to visit Scrooge appears – the ghost of Christmas present

looks like a mix of Father Christmas and God he is surrounded by Ivy and sat on top of a pile of food. He represents abundance and is there to contrast malthusian views.

he is shown the joyous celebrations of Christmas as his nephew Fred‘s house

The ghost take Scrooge to a scene of the ratchets. Despite their poverty Bob and his family expressed a deep level of gratitude for the little they have.

then he show Scrooge two animalistic looking children ignorant and want. Their symbols of the neglected lower class because of the upper classes ignorance and exploitation. 


Question 4

stave 4

Answer 4

ghost of Christmas yet to come

Draped in dark black cloak and replicate the Grim Reaper. He is unlike to the other goes he doesn’t speak, instead uses his hand and finger to point.

he show Scrooge some rich upper-class men talking about a funeral and speaking about this dead individual in economic terms

Scrooge servant is shown to have taken his belongings, even the curtain of his deathbed to sell them to a man called OJ. This whole stage shows the carelessness of people towards Scrooge in his death – a harrowing realisation for Scrooge.

We are taking back to the Cratchit’s home and they are all devastated by the death of Tiny Tim

The last scene Scrooge is shown is his neglected grave he pleased the ghost for a chance of redemption and salvation, and whether these events can be reversed if he alters his behaviour

Question 5

stave 5

Answer 5

scrooge wakes up on Christmas Day and is overjoyed that he’s been given a second chance at life. His movement is as light as a feather and he seems to have been born into a new man – regressing back into a jovial and magnanimous individual.

He sends a prize turkey to the cracker as a token of his gratitude for them, he then goes to spend the day with Fred’s family

The next day at work he pretends to be his same miserable self to Bob, scrutinise for his lateness. Instead he gives Bob a raise for his hard work and becomes a second father to Tiny tim

Scrooge continues to be a childhood and magnanimous individual, embodying communal spirit