A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE GHOST OF PRESENT

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A Christmas CarolCHARLES DICKENS

The First of the 3 Spirits


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The 1st Spirit

The Spirit of thepast.

The candle.

PAST

MEMORY

REMEMBER LEARN


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The Candle

Description:

Like a child

Supernatural medium

Emblem

Light

Tunic of purest white An angel figure

A Messenger


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It represents:

Light

Purity

Memories

Scrooge's Past

Hope: the light of hope

Scrooge has a chance tochange

Recollection ofmemories

A Miracle: From thegospel, The christ curedthe handicaped man in

the clerk's house bysaying the followingwords: Rise andWalk

Similarly, the candlesays to Scrooge: Rise!And walk with me!


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A Miracle


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Similarities

Hope

Cure

Light

Resurection

Physical rebirth

Those who suffer couldbe released from it.

Hope

Cure

Light

Resurection

Mental & PsychologicalRebirth

Scrooge sufferspsychologically andspiritually.


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First Visit

Recollection ofmemories.

We learn how Scrooge

became a stingymiserable person.

The place whereScrooge grew up.


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To Wake up: the child inside Scrooge, the purity and to

force him to remember and to feel similar emotions.


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2nd visit

Little Fan

Scrooge's sister

The moment she cameto take him back homeat Christmas time.

Traumatic experience

for Scrooge. We learn about his

relationship with hisfather.


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3rd Visit

Scrooge as anapprentice to Mr.Fezziwig.

Celebrating Christmas Scrooge recalls his

memories.

He watches himselfcelebrating Christmas.


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4th Visit

Belle, Scrooge's ex-fiancee.

You fear the world too

much, she answeredgently.

Gain, engrosses you

Fear Rejection

Spiritual &

Psychological sterility.


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Spiritual & Psychological Sterility

They tranform into aMonster.

The Monster of Gain

The Monster of Greed

Sterility transforms intofertility.

The fertility of material,short-term. Material isshort-term, it fadesthrough time.


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Spiritual Fertility.

Scrooge must regaintime

He must regain spiritual

and psychologicalfertility.

He will bloom from adry tree to a beautifulblossom tree again.

From Winter to Spring.


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From Winter to Spring.Ebenezer recalls !


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Past appears to Scrooge.

To Demonstrate the necessity to change his ways.

Dickens shows to the reader how Scrooge came tobe the person he is and why he dislikes christmas.

His father is described as a cold and unloving manby his beloved sister Fan.

Belle: She describes Scrooge's change and his

obsession with money. Alienation and the broke offtheir engagement.


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The Allegory of Christmas Carol.

Past represents memory.

Memory is a force that connects the different stagesof a person's life.

Candle's glowing head suggests the illuminatingpower of the mind.

Each episode of scenes shows a younger Scrooge,

who still possesses the ability to love. Scrooge watches himself become cold and greedy.

The tour though his memories forces Scrooge to

recall the emotional Scrooge of the past.


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Candles of C. Kavafi.The days of the future stand in front of us

Like a line of candles all alight----

Golden and warm and lively little candles.

The days that are past are left behind,

A mournful row of candles that are out;

The nearer ones are still smoking,

Candles cold, and melted, candles bent.,I dont want to see them; their shapes hurt me,

It hurts me to rememberthe light of them at

first.

I look before me at my lighted candles,

I dont want to turn around and see with horrorHow quickly the dark line is lengthening,

How quickly the candles multiply that have been

put out.


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Between PAST & FUTURE

PAST

Memories

Unhappy memories

Suffering

Traumatic experienceswe don't want to

remember. Afraid to look behind.

FUTURE

Hope

Better days

Time

Eliminate pain

Prosperous Future onlywhen if Scrooge takesin consideration hisPresent.


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The 2nd Ghost of Christmas Present.

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