Scrooge approaches the grave and reads the inscription on the headstone: EBENEZER SCROOGE. Appalled, Scrooge clutches at the spirit and begs him to undo the events of his nightmarish vision. He promises to honor Christmas from deep within his heart and to live by the moralizing lessons of Past, Present, and Future.
The spirit first shows Scrooge a funeral scene, with businessmen wondering about the money that the dead man has left. The Ghost then takes him through dark alleyways to a scene of three people picking through the belongings of the deceased. Scrooge recognises that his own death could be met this way.
When Scrooge saw the dead man he thinks the Spirit is trying to teach him a lesson. In other words, this man (on the bed) died unloved and alone and YOU will die the same way if you continue to live the way you do. Scrooge asks the Spirit to show him someone who felt emotion associated with this man's death.
The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it; and Scrooge's name was good upon 'change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
When Scrooge saw the dead man he thinks the Spirit is trying to teach him a lesson. In other words, this man (on the bed) died unloved and alone and YOU will die the same way if you continue to live the way you do. Scrooge asks the Spirit to show him someone who felt emotion associated with this man's death.
The spirit points to the covered up body, but Scrooge cannot bring himself to remove the cover. Scrooge asks the spirit to show him someone who feels some emotion over this man's death. The spirit shows him a couple who were in debt to the man. They are happy he is dead.
What made Scrooge realize he was the dead man? He read the inscription on the grave stone.
Where is Scrooge when he realizes that in the future he will be dead? In the cemetery.
A Christmas Carol begins appropriately enough on the night before Christmas. Dickens starts his tale with the famous line, “Marley was dead: to begin with” (45). With these words, he brings death to the fore, an ironic beginning, considering that death marks the end of life and thus the end to one's story.
These two passages have been taken from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The narrator of the novel declares that Marley is as dead as a doornail using this phrase. He continues suggesting that it could be a coffin-nail. However, it announces the inevitable death of Marley and his burial.
"Old Marley was as dead as a doornail." This simile (comparison using like or as) was used to inform the reader that without a reasonable doubt, Marley was indeed dead (foreshadowing).
Colons are often used to introduce or contrast a different idea within the confines of a single sentence. Charles Dickens originally used a colon to separate the two parts of the opening sentence to A Christmas Carol with the inclusion of 'Marley was dead: to begin with'.
Scrooge was being shown his death in Christmas Future by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, when Dreadpool appeared and killed both Scrooge and the Ghost.
Scrooge learns that he is the man who is dead. This stave shows Scrooge having an EPIPHANY (sudden realization) that changes his life.
When Scrooge asks the phantom to let him "see some tenderness connected with a death," (paragraph 104) what does the ghost show him? That himself and Tiny Tim will die if Scrooge does not change and stay changed.
Scrooge begs the spirit for a change of scene, desiring to see "tenderness connected with a death." The spirit takes him to the Cratchit home, where the entire family is mourning the death of Tiny Tim. While the previous scene was old of cold indifference, this one is full of love and sadness over their loss.
Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
This quotation is a description of Jacob Marley, the former business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge. It shows that Scrooge and Marley only had each other as friends. When Marley died, Scrooge was the only person who mourned his death and took care of his affairs.
Repetition is a technique involving the repeating of a word, phrase or statement, often several times within a passage of text. It adds to emphasise and develop a certain idea. In this quotation, the word sole is repeated six times within the sentence to emphasise the solitary nature of Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. Both are mean spirited businessmen who only had each other as friends. When Marley dies, its leaves Scrooge as the sole, or only, person who would have taken care of anything to do with his affairs and mourn his passing.
Illustration from the original publication of A Christmas Carol showing Ebenezer Scrooge (left), here being visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, bound by the chains he forged in life.
Dickens introduces the character of the ghost of Marley into the story to warn Scrooge of the consequences of his selfish life, for example how Marley says he is condemned to wander the world bound by chains, chains he says he forged in life (suggesting to Scrooge that he has a choice).
Jacob Marley died seven years prior to the setting of A Christmas Carol, on the same day it is set, Christmas Eve. His ghost visits Scrooge but this quote is used by Dickens to confirm to the reader at the outset of the story that he is definitely dead.
A Christmas Carol is a novella, or short story, written by Charles Dickens and first published in the Christmas of 1843 . The allegorical tale tells the story of the transformation of the mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge through the visits of the spirit of his former business partner and three ghosts over the course of a Christmas Eve night. It remains a much-loved traditional Christmas tale.
Scrooge knew he was dead. Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee: his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
Scrooge never painted out old Marley's name. There it
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did.
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him.
more emphasis on Scrooge being cold and unfeeling - reiterates how all people disliked him
The word "tight fisted" suggest that he is a very cruel mean character who will do anything for more of his "golden idol"
Scrooge has no emotions attached to the man who used to be his partner and doesn't care to respect him; all he wants in life is his "golden idol" and nothing else truly matters to him and this "idol" is the only thing that can beguile him.
There is no financial benefit to him so Scrooge does not care about his "sole friend" who has just died - he has no use to him and cannot help him in his pursuit of his "golden idol".
Scrooge is hated and feared by all in society
In the beginning of the book, Scrooge is not only cold- but it is also winter.
One thing theme that was shown in chapter one is that scrooge appearently knew that Old Marley and never seemed to tell anybody.
To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call “nuts” to Scrooge. Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. “There’s another fellow,” muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas.
The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there. The cold became intense.
He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge’s, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome ; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal . But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often “came down” handsomely, and Scrooge never did.
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him.