ACC Revision – Revising Character
Main characters Secondary characters Minor characters
Ebenezer Scrooge The Ghost of Christmas Past Jacob Marley
The Ghost of Christmas Present Belle
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come The charity collectors
Bob Cratchit Fezziwig
Tiny Tim Fan
Fred (Scrooge's nephew)
Scrooge:
At the start of the novel, Scrooge is portrayed as a selfish, arrogant and isolated character that is
shown when he tells the charity workers that if the poor would rather die than go to a workhouse
then they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster”
“Hard and sharp as flint”
“ A poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every twenty-fifth of December”
However he becomes more sympathetic as the three ghosts show him more things.
When he goes back and sees himself in school and his little sister in stave 2 he starts crying.
"A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."
"The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."
“ What idol had displaced you? He re-joined. A golden one”
When he sees Tiny Tim in Stave 3, he "was overcome with penitence and grief" as he hears the ghost
repeat his comment about the poor being the surplus population.
“ Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family”
“Spirit,” said scrooge with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if tiny Tim will live"
“ This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both but most of all beware this boy.”
As scrooges learns the truth about the value of his life as it applies to other people in stave 4, as he
sees his own headstone, cold, bare and devoid of any sentiment, he is frightened and determined to
change.
Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went
Read upon the neglected grave his own name
"Spirit, hear me! I am not the man I was"
In the final Stave, Scrooge has become a lot more emotional and charitable. You can see this as he
uses more affectionate terms such as "my dear" and "my love" and as he says that "the time before
him was his own, to make amends in!" when he wakes up, and by the end he is a changed man,
sharing his wealth and generosity with everyone.
Main characters Secondary characters Minor characters
Ebenezer Scrooge The Ghost of Christmas Past Jacob Marley
The Ghost of Christmas Present Belle
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come The charity collectors
Bob Cratchit Fezziwig
Tiny Tim Fan
Fred (Scrooge's nephew)
Scrooge:
At the start of the novel, Scrooge is portrayed as a selfish, arrogant and isolated character that is
shown when he tells the charity workers that if the poor would rather die than go to a workhouse
then they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster”
“Hard and sharp as flint”
“ A poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every twenty-fifth of December”
However he becomes more sympathetic as the three ghosts show him more things.
When he goes back and sees himself in school and his little sister in stave 2 he starts crying.
"A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."
"The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."
“ What idol had displaced you? He re-joined. A golden one”
When he sees Tiny Tim in Stave 3, he "was overcome with penitence and grief" as he hears the ghost
repeat his comment about the poor being the surplus population.
“ Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family”
“Spirit,” said scrooge with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if tiny Tim will live"
“ This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both but most of all beware this boy.”
As scrooges learns the truth about the value of his life as it applies to other people in stave 4, as he
sees his own headstone, cold, bare and devoid of any sentiment, he is frightened and determined to
change.
Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went
Read upon the neglected grave his own name
"Spirit, hear me! I am not the man I was"
In the final Stave, Scrooge has become a lot more emotional and charitable. You can see this as he
uses more affectionate terms such as "my dear" and "my love" and as he says that "the time before
him was his own, to make amends in!" when he wakes up, and by the end he is a changed man,
sharing his wealth and generosity with everyone.
