Fred : Mr Scrooge's sweet nephew. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”. Merry Christmas! He is a tired and tortured ghost, You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands. Upon its coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried, “I know him; Marley’s Ghost!” and fell again. 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. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? “Oh! “Why?”, “Because you fell in love!” growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas. “Mankind was my business. What reason have you to be morose? “Who were you then?” said Scrooge, raising his voice. At length the hour of shutting up the counting-house arrived. The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures. Das Kunstwerk an sich ist aus dem folgenden Grund gemeinfrei: Public domain Public domain false false: Dieses Werk ist gemeinfrei, weil seine urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist. What reason have you to be merry? The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold. “I must. And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose; went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant. Incessant torture of remorse.”. Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face. Nor can I tell you what I would. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. MARLEY‘S GHOST ist Deutschlands Bob Marley Tribute Band Nummer Eins! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. “What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?”, “Because,” said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. When it had said these words, the spectre took its wrapper from the table, and bound it round its head, as before. Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. Study Flashcards On Stave 1: Marley's Ghost- Character quotes at Cram.com. Mit ihrer mitreißenden, authentischen und unerreichten Energie transportiert die Band nicht nur die Musik und die vielen großen Songs Bob Marleys, sondern auch seine Message. “Without their visits,” said the Ghost, “you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew. But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted his candle. Cram.com makes it easy to get the grade you want! “Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?”, “Mr. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot—say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance—literally to astonish his son’s weak mind. “At this time of the rolling year,” the spectre said, “I suffer most. Marley was dead, to begin with. In 1825 the young Dickens was sent to Wellington House Classical and Commercial Academy where in 1827 he won the Latin prize. I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. Doch so unerwartet, wie sie erschienen ist, verschwindet sie auch wieder. At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon. Description: English caricaturist and illustrator: Date of birth/death : 29 August 1817 29 October 1864 Location of birth/death: London: London: Authority control: Q1374807; VIAF: 55323488; ISNI: 0000 0001 0903 3018; ULAN: 500002592; LCCN: n79054670; NLA: 35297707; WorldCat; Author: Charles Dickens. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. “On the wings of the wind,” replied the Ghost. The sound resounded through the house like thunder. But the ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace, as if he were quite used to it. Don’t be flowery, Jacob! Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!”. Yet such was I! Besides—excuse me—I don’t know that.”. Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. But what did Scrooge care! Description: Marley's Ghost. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free. “It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Humbug, I tell you! You can view our. It was not an agreeable idea. Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. You have laboured on it, since. And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change—not a knocker, but Marley’s face. It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. Marley was dead: to begin with. He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. Age range: 14-16. 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. Much good it has ever done you!”, “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. Nobody under the bed; nobody in the closet; nobody in his dressing-gown, which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall. That, and its livid colour, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face and beyond its control, rather than a part of its own expression. “You’re particular, for a shade.” He was going to say “to a shade,” but substituted this, as more appropriate. Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley, since his last mention of his seven years’ dead partner that afternoon. Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bowels, but he had never believed it until now. First edition. Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost… “We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,” said the gentleman, presenting his credentials. captive, bound, and double-ironed,” cried the phantom, “not to know, that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. 1 September 2018. Description It is Christmas Eve, and who is moaning throughout the night? Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. Series 1, Episode 1 is repeated on Tuesday at 3:15am. “Much good may it do you! Pondering on what the Ghost had said, he did so now, but without lifting up his eyes, or getting off his knees. • These items symbolise the things Marley spent his life on – they are … Marley's Ghost is the spirit of the deceased Jacob Marley who haunts Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol . Mind! All as they should be. humbug!”. Marley’s … Episode 1: Miser Ebenezer … Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. He did pause, with a moment’s irresolution, before he shut the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley’s pigtail sticking out into the hall. 4 2 reviews. But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home. By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from SparkNotes and verify that you are over the age of 13. Come! At first we see his miserliness in contrast with his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, and his cheerful nephew, Fred. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. It's dead funny. it was ghost with fearfull cry and shook its chain with a frightened noise the scrooge could easily see through his body,and the two buttons on the back of Marley's coat. Scrooge asked the question, because he didn’t know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. “Old Jacob Marley, tell me more. Scrooge’s countenance fell almost as low as the Ghost’s had done. How could it be otherwise? There is no doubt whatever about that. “Humbug!” said Scrooge; and walked across the room. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. “Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?”, “Man of the worldly mind!” replied the Ghost, “do you believe in me or not?”, “I do,” said Scrooge. “No rest, no peace. Marley’s face. It may have been as part of his studies that he first encountered Pliny's ghostly tale. At the ominous word “liberality,” Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back. Marley's Ghosts Menu. Colour illustration … “You’ll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?” said Scrooge. “It’s not my business,” Scrooge returned. Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that. A Christmas Carol - Marley's ghost. After Marley's Ghost has left him, Scrooge looks out of his window and sees ‘the air filled with phantoms’, many of them chained souls who had once been known to Scrooge (Stave 1). Charlotte Barton. The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night. “I won’t believe it.”. Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. This lunatic, in letting Scrooge’s nephew out, had let two other people in. ", "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. It is a ponderous chain!”. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.”. The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. “I’m very glad to hear it.”, “Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the gentleman, “a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. Summary. “Merry Christmas! Pray!”, “How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the spectre’s voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones. Lumber-room as usual. Why give it as a reason for not coming now?”, “I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”, “I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. “But why?” cried Scrooge’s nephew. 1 Stave One: Marley’s Ghost sinister light-hearted mysterious frightening playful serious However, large parts of A Christmas Carol are written in the third person: The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor’s household should. “What else can I be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this? His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding. “What do you want with me?”. An seiner Haustür angekommen, erscheint Scrooge plötzlich an Stelle einer Verzierung an der Tür der Kopf des verstorbenen Marley. “Can you—can you sit down?” asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully at him. His body was transparent; so that Scrooge, observing him, and looking through his waistcoat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind. It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. Marley's Ghost (play), 2003 stage play by Jeff Goode. Subject: English. The insistence on Marley's dead-ness and reference to Hamlet, one of the most well-known ghost stories of the time, hints that Marley is about to be un-dead and in so doing significantly change Scrooge's life, just as Old Hamlet's appearance changed Hamlet's. The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of, “God bless you, merry gentleman! Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. It is doomed to wander through the world—oh, woe is me!—and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!”. Stars Sarah Alexander, Jo Joyner, Nicholas Burns, John Hannah and others. He looked out. Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel. Foggier yet, and colder. Marley has been dead these seven years,” Scrooge replied. Polished prose, dirt cheap! Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob. Jacob Marley, fictional character, the deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. All the apparitions warn Scrooge that he must change his greedy ways or suffer a … Marley’s Ghost carries the concerns Marley had in life. “Couldn’t I take ’em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?” hinted Scrooge. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley, and three ghosts that represent different stages of Scrooge's life. “In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.”. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!”. 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. 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