";s:4:"text";s:5381:" Your support helps us continue to discover and share incredible kids books! The choices he made in life, to value money and business over others’ welfare, created the fetters he wears now. When you purchase books using links on our website, Bookroo or its affiliates may receive a small commission (at no added cost to you). “Marley was dead.”. Marley’s ghost visits Scrooge on Christmas Eve at the beginning of the book. character. concept. Jacob Marley: You will be haunted by … By using our site you consent to our use of cookies. Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. #2. Scrooge will learn that the chain serves as Marley’s punishment. Given an unexpected opportunity to communicate—perhaps as a Christmas miracle—Marley feels determined to help Scrooge and he warns him here. Of course he did. He acts surprised that Scrooge does not recognize what makes up his chain.
death. Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! Scrooge's long-dead business partner is the first ghostly visitor who haunts him, warning him about the Christmas ghosts soon to come. 'I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!' Readers speculate that if Marley likewise served as Scrooge’s sole friend, with Marley’s death Scrooge lives his life completely alone.The narrator describes Marley’s ghost’s appearance as he visits Scrooge. We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”
‘Tell me why?’‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. Thus Marley arrives as only the first of four Ghosts that will visit Scrooge.SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble. Were there no homes to which [the Christmas star's] light would have conducted me! Marley is your run-of-the-mill worst-case scenario. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.”″‘It is required of every man,’ the Ghost returned, ‘that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. The narrator describes the relationship between Scrooge and Jacob Marley. Him and Scrooge are very similar personalities: they are obsessed with money and don't care about … Jacob Marley. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!‘”″‘You are fettered,’ said Scrooge, trembling. 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!‘”“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!”“I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. ″‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy ... #3.
As Marley knows, Scrooge’s currently invisible chain consists of the same items, because the two men made the same choices and focused on the same things in their lives.Watching Scrooge forge his own invisible chain served as part of Marley’s punishment for his deeds in life. He is bitter that no one did for him what he is doing for Scrooge. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. Why does he come to visit Scrooge before the Christmas ghosts show up? Marley’s appearance warns Scrooge of his potential fate. Oh, Jacob Marley! Further, Scrooge learns that he himself has already forged a similar chain—but for seven years longer. author. ‘Mankind was my business. ‘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. ″‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. Ebenezer Scrooge: What do you want with me?
- in life my spirit never roved beyond our money changing hole"
People can change, but Scrooge has thus far been content with his situation. “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Is its pattern strange to you?‘”“Scrooge knew he was dead? "Scrooge has often heard it said that Marley had no bowels, but he had never believed it until now" "I wear the chain I forged in life" "It was full and long as this, seven christmas eves ago... it is a ponderous chain" "My spirit never walked beyond our counting house - mark me! And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge… saw in the knocker, without it undergoing any intermediate process of change—not a knocker, but Marley’s face. Business was Marley’s only concern in life, and nobody besides Scrooge mourned him or was involved in his post-death affairs.