Ghost of the Christmas past

• "Light" creates an image of hope and brightness, this symbolises how the ghost's
• QUOTES

  "bright clear jet of light"

  "It was a strange figure-like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man

  ANALYISIS

  The ghost is trying to eradicate Scrooge's selfishness through illuminating his past.
• "wore a tunic of the purest white"

  "bright clear jet of light"

  yet is vulnerable and isolated akin to how he was as a "child".

  The ghosts can also be seen to be supernatural incarnations of Scrooge. its

  Scrooge's transmogrification is imminent.

  "purest white" creates a celestial image of heaven and purity from sin. As the ghost wears a

  "tunic" of this colour, it is suggestive that his aim is to resurface Scrooge's repressed memories and