a christmas carol

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period

Characters in the play: Fred (Scrooge’s nephew) Ebenezer Scrooge Marley Bob Cratchit Tiny Tim Ghost of Christmas past Ghost of Christmas present The ghost of Christmas future

A ChristmAs CArol

A Christmas Carol

It’s hard to imagine a Christmas season without the story of old Scrooge, Bah Humbug! and “God bless us, every one.”

Ebenezer Scrooge, a tight-fisted and bitter man, is visited by three spirits to bring about his redemption before his death.

He learns to love his fellow man after being shown the love and generosity that symbolizes Christmas.

As his faithful clerk Bob Cratchit toils, Scrooge is visited by his nephew and invited to Christmas dinner the next day.

Two men who come seeking donations for the poor are dismissed with Scrooge’s wish that the poor would die and “decrease the surplus population.”

Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s partner has been dead, 7 years to the day that our story begins.

The first scene unfolds in the cold cheerless office of Scrooge’s counting house.

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Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas past. Then he was shown the day when his beloved,

younger sister Fan came to meet him after so many years.

The spirit also showed Scrooge the day when, as a young man, he compelled Belle, his fiancée, to end their relationship because of his obsession with his money caused him to alienate her.

The Ghost of Christmas Present was the second of the three spirits

This ghost shows him the view of his clerk Bob’s house condition where they are celebrating Christmas even tough they don’t have enough to eat

Bob’s younger son Tim is crippled and ill and he proposes a toast to Scrooge. Tim will die unless he receives treatment.

The ghost of Christmas future is the ghost that haunts the miser Ebenezer Scrooge

This ghost showed him a scene from the future where a body is laying on the road and nobody is ready to do the cremation

Scrooge recognizes the body as his own

Scrooge is shocked with what he has showed.Scrooge decides to change himself for the

goodScrooge is a changed man nowAnd he takes Tim as his own childAnd takes his nephew into his business