It kind of feels like this extinguishing fight is a dramatic acting out of what Scrooge must have been doing all along in order to turn into the miserable monster that we find at the beginning of the story. Scrooge has lived a very long time repressing all of those horrible and painful memories to the point where it takes an outside supernatural force to make him relive them. Long Past inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature. It's actually pretty shocking that Scrooge suddenly wrestles with the ghost, isn't it? Why do you think Dickens decided to end the part of the haunting this way? Why doesn't the ghost just melt away on its own? Why doesn't it fight back against Scrooge? Does it make sense to make the ghost of memory function like an extinguishable candle? The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form (2.147-150) In the struggle, if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost with no visible resistance on its own part was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head. turned upon the Ghost, and wrestled with it. But the ghost protests that putting this cap on will "extinguish" it and that memories need to be looked at rather than snuffed out.īut eventually, that very thing is what happens: It comes with a cap that Scrooge keeps wanting to put on its head. Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories Gaiman, Neil, Aickman, Robert, Jerome, Jerome K., Link. The Ghost of Christmas Past, for example, is a lot like an old-timey candle. What really separates each ghost from the others, however, are the weirdly surreal supernatural bits that Dickens invents for how they eventually disappear. It is strong and muscular but also delicate.
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It has long white hair but its face is unwrinkled and its skin has a youthful glow to it.
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It makes sense that because there was actually a time in the past when Scrooge wasn't the horrible monster that he is in real time, the memory ghost doesn't go full out with blame. Key character: The Ghost of Christmas Past Dennis W.Donohue/Shutterstock The description of the Ghost is detailed and apparently contradictory it is like a child and like an old man all at the same time. This ghost is generally quiet, thoughtful, and surprisingly compassionate for the bits of Scrooge's miserable childhood that we get to see. The Christmas ghosts have distinct personalities they're not all just the same kind of phantom presence. An unsettling combination of a small child and an old man, this Ghost takes Scrooge on a tour of his past Christmases in order to reconnect him to his feelings.
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