Christmas Spirit

• We see characters have a negative and positive view of Christmas
• Stave 1-

  Fred:

  ’'I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'

  Fezziwig:

  ’No more work,tonight.Christmas Eve,Dick.Christmas,Ebenezer!’
• Scrooges views on Christmas:

  ‘Out upon Merry Christmas’
• The Ghost of Christmas present shows Scrooge the Christmas spirit and how it is possible everyone to have it no matter where they are or who they are

  ’For the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee’

  ’The fruiterers’ were radiant in their glory’
• Scrooge realises his mistakes and invokes the Christmas Spirit

  ’I will honour Christmas in my heart,and try to keep it all the year’

  ’’it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge’