Scrooge story
A British film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843). It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. It was released as A Christmas Carol in the United States.
20 total · 10 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| becoming a nicer person | major | Scrooge's heart was ultimately touched by the spirit of Christmas and came so see the error of his miserly ways and went about making merry on Christmas morning. |
| Christmas traditions | major | We saw an elaborate depiction of what a Victorian era Christmas might have been like. |
| compassion | major | Scrooge's heart was ultimately touched by the spirit of Christmas and came so see the error of his miserly ways and went about making merry on Christmas morning. |
| generosity | major | Scrooge's heart was ultimately touched by the spirit of Christmas and came so see the error of his miserly ways and went about making merry on Christmas morning. In fact, he bought a gave his servant a guinea, bought a giant turkey for the Crachit family, a gave Bob Crachit a generous raise. |
| ghost | major | Scrooge was visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, the last but not least by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. |
| kindness | major | Scrooge's heart was ultimately touched by the spirit of Christmas and came so see the error of his miserly ways and went about making merry on Christmas morning. |
| miserliness | major | Scrooge was the epitome of a miser. |
| poverty in society | major | Scrooge was initially dismissive of the plight of the poor and flippantly wished they would hurry up and die to help reduce the surplus population. He later reversed his opinion in a most dramatic turn of events. In addition, the way the Fred and his well to do friends celebrated Christmas was contrasted with Alice serving soup to people in the poor house. |
| remorse | major | Scrooge came to deeply regret the miserly life he had led and the hard it had caused other along the way. |
| seeing the error of one's ways | major | Scrooge's heart was ultimately touched by the spirit of Christmas and came so see the error of his miserly ways and went about making merry on Christmas morning. We saw Jacob Marley renounce his avaricious ways on his death bed. |