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A Christmas Carol characters: Scrooge, Fred, Tiny Tim
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- 1FredHe is Scrooge’s nephew, the only son of his little sister Fan. He is the anthesis of Scrooge, demonstrating how we should behave to one another. In the story he visits Scrooge in his office to wish him a merry Christmas. He holds a family party where he refuses to be rude about Scrooge, although he does laugh at his miserly ways. He is kind to Bob and expresses his death for the death of Tiny Tim, when the Ghost of Christmas yet to come pays a visit. However at the end of the story he excepts Scrooge into the family with no question.
- 2The Charity CollectorsThey visit Scrooge at the beginning of the novella in his office on a cold, foggy Christmas Eve. They are meant to represent the approach Scrooge should be taking to Christmas. These characters are Dickens’ way of showing the victorian upper class they need to put their wealth to good use.
- 3Young FanHer presence in Scrooge's vision of the past reminds us that this mean old skinflint once had a heart, and used to enjoy Christmas before he turned into such a grinch. We get the impression that she was the only person that Scrooge has ever truly loved. Relations with his father can't have been all that great; after all, it was Ebenezer's father who used to make him stay at school during the Christmas holidays while all the other boys were at home with their families having fun.
- 4FezziwigScrooge visits him when the Ghost of Christmas Past takes him to the place where he was an apprentice. Scrooge is overwhelmed to see his old boss, Dickens uses this character as a life lesson to Scrooge and represents that wealth and greed should never come before generosity and those close around you. He’s an avid business man who had plenty of money but yet lent it generously, while not holding back in throwing large parties every Christmas for every single one of his workers and their close friends. He viewed his workers as family, in contrast to Scrooge who wants nothing to do with his own nephew, let alone his worker Bob Cratchit.
- 5BelleThis beautiful young women was once engaged to Scrooge, she broke up with Scrooge as he had changed too much in pursuit of wealth. They were both poor when they met and she loved him for the man he was before he became greedy. When Scrooge see’s her through the Ghost of Christmas Past, he is reminded that he lost the love of his life because of his greediness. This is significant to scrooge because it shows him exactly what his greed has cost: the love of his life and his only chance of happiness.
- 6Ignorance & WantThese two characters are used by Dickens to represent the poor. The children hide under the rove of the Ghost of Christmas Present, the ghost tells Scrooge that the children are the responsibility of all mankind.
- 7Tiny TimThis young character is an ill boy, who warms the hearts of not only the reader but also Scrooge. Dickens often used his characters to demonstrate the disparity between social classes that existed in England during the victorian era, and the hardships suffered at that time by the poor. These representative characters are typically children, presumably because children are most dependent upon others for survival, especially when they come from the lower social classes.
- 8Mrs DilberThis character was Scrooge’s laundress, she appear’s in Scrooge’s future vision along with Old Joe. She has stolen the bed curtains, sheets and clothes from the dead corpse of Scrooge and sells them to Old Joe, who is amazed, as she shows no respect for the dead. Dickens creates this character to portray the disrespect that Scrooge showed the lower class when he was alive, so now he’s no longer alive they treat him with the same disrespect.
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