![]() ![]() ![]() Marley’s visit startled Scrooge, but he still brushed off the warning and thought that Marley was a dream. Marley now wanted to help people in life, but he wore “the chain (he) forged in life”. Marley came to Scrooge to warn him about how he regretted not helping people or being kind. ![]() In his death, he learnt that it was too late for him to change, but he wanted to give Scrooge the opportunity to become a better person. He also was cold hearted and only cared about money. Jacob Marley was much like Scrooge in his life. In regret from his own life, Marley and the Three Ghosts of Christmas change Scrooge’s attitude towards life. Jacob Marley was his partner in life, and even though their relationship was for business only, he was Scrooge’s only friend. The whole town knew him as a bad man, even “the blindmen’s dogs knew him… and would tug their owners into corners away from him”. He always kept attention to himself and never cared about anyone else. In the novel A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a man who is portrayed as very cold hearted, “the cold within him froze his features”. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |