A christmas carol

• Ebenezer Scrooge


  An elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner called Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and yet to come
• Jacob Marley


  The first ghost who visits Scrooge on Christmas Eve, the dead friend and colleague of Scrooge who is tortured by his own greed and selfish ways in his afterlife
• Bob Cratchit


  An underpaid clerk (Scrooge's worker) who represents the suffering and poor working conditions of the lower classes, a dedicated and humble worker, loving husband and father
• Tiny Tim


  One of Bob Cratchit's sons, disabled and walks with a crutch, a positive and generous child
• Ghost of Christmas Past


  The first Christmas ghost that comes to Scrooge and shows him scenes with his cheerful old boss (Fezziwig) and his younger self with his fiancée (Belle)
• Ghost of Christmas Present


  The second spirit who takes Scrooge to the Cratchit family and shows him the humility (humbleness) with which they tolerate their poverty, gives Scrooge a chance of redemption
• Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come frightening and eerie ghost that takes Scrooge to a funeral scene and shows him that Tiny Tim has died