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Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by visits from the ghost of Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has become a defining ...
A Christmas Carol opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley.Scrooge, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred.
Scrooge has been allowed to consider the benefits of being a good and generous employer, as Fezziwig was, and comes to regret mistreating his clerk, Bob Cratchit. [ 12 ] The Spirit then shows Scrooge his subsequent painful parting from his fiancée Belle and a now-married Belle with her large, happy family on the Christmas Eve that Marley died ...
Actor Paul Carlin, who wrote an adaptation and played Scrooge at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Florida this month, calls Dickens' work a sort of "backdoor brilliance" that sneaks up on its audience.
Why Did Scrooge Say 'Bah Humbug'? Scrooge believes Christmas is nonsense or based on fraud because he doesn't understand what people should be happy about. He thinks it's a hoax that tricks people ...
Robert "Bob" Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol.The overworked, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge, Cratchit has come to symbolise the poor working conditions, especially long working hours and low pay, endured by many working-class people in the early Victorian era.
Dickens never explicitly specifies the illness Tiny Tim suffers, although he walks with a crutch and has "his limbs supported by an iron frame".. In 1992, American paediatric neurologist Donald Lewis, although describing the boy as "the crippled son of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk", proposed as one possibility renal tubular acidosis (type 1), a type of kidney failure causing the blood to become ...
Scrooge: But Jacob, you’re dead! Marley: That’s what they said about Joe Biden. Gracie Goetz (Tiny Tim) and Ira David Wood III (Ebenezer Scrooge). Taken in December 2007 by Stephen J. Larson ...