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A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Carol	comment	A Christmas Carol note full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1843, which not many contemporary people have actually read but pretty much everyone knows the story of. But just for the record...Ebenezer Scrooge is a hard-hearted, crotchety old moneylender living in Victorian London. Our story opens on Christmas Eve, by chance the seventh anniversary of the death of Scrooge's partner in the firm, Jacob Marley. Scrooge believes Christmas to be a foolish waste of time and money, and mocks anyone who believes in making merry, particularly his nephew Fred, his only living relation, and his overworked and underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit. After closing up the office and taking his evening meal at a tavern, Scrooge returns home, where, late in the night, Marley's ghost pays him a call. Though seven years dead, Marley appears wrapped in chains and weighted down with lock-boxes symbolizing his own obsession with money in life. Marley warns Scrooge that a similar fate waits for him, with an even longer and heavier chain, if he doesn't change his ways, and that his only hope for redemption lies in heeding the advice of three other ghosts that are scheduled to appear to him one at a time over the following nights.After seeing Marley disappear amid a crowd of phantoms which it seems are visible only to Scrooge, the stress of the events gets the better of Scrooge, and he ends up falling asleep â€“Â and stays asleep so long that he doesn't wake up until minutes before the first of the three is scheduled to arrive: The Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows Scrooge (and the reader) the ups and downs of his life, which drove him to become the man he is today. These include visions of Scrooge's early life at a boarding school, and encounters with his younger sister Fan, his jolly first employer Fezziwig, and his fiancÃ©e Belle, each of whom left Scrooge's life for one reason or another around Christmas.After Scrooge attempts to 'put out' the Ghost of Christmas Past with his cap, Scrooge awakes with a start back in his bed, the room still dark with night, but now it is time to meet the Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows Scrooge more visions, this time of folks who have retained their Christmas spirit in spite of suffering worse than he has, including Bob Cratchit. In spite of the troubles of Bob and his family (especially Bob's sickly youngest son, "Tiny Tim"), they still find a place for happiness in their lives. The ghost also shows him a glimpse of the celebration his nephew Fred has in his absence â€“ Scrooge having rejected Fred's offer to dine with him, his wife, and their friends â€“Â and Scrooge sees not only the fun that he's been missing, but how his nephew wishes for a closer relationship with the brother his departed mother Fan so loved.After a warning about the future of humanity should it produce more like Scrooge's kind, the Ghost of Christmas Present passes away and disappears, leaving Scrooge alone in a dismal alley â€“ in time to meet the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. This ghost, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the Grim Reaper, shows Scrooge bleak visions of the future: Tiny Tim will succumb to his illness, while Scrooge himself will die alone and unmourned. A horrified Scrooge implores the ghost to spare mercy on him, and vows to better himself to prevent this outcome. Begging and pleading, Scrooge feels the ground beneath him give way, and he starts to fall......until he wakes up, back in his own bed. The world is back to normal, and morning light streams into his room from the window. Scrooge discovers that, despite his seeming to have slept for three whole nights, it is still Christmas morning. Overjoyed, he makes good on his resolution to change his ways, and becomes a generous and highly-respected figure in London. Bob Cratchit is given an immediate raise in pay, and with Scrooge's help Tiny Tim manages to overcome his illness. Scrooge repairs his relationship with Fred, and all live happily ever after.Christmas as we now know it is largely thanks to the enormous popularity of this story, which took what had become, in Anglo-Saxon Protestant countries, a relatively minor and disparaged holiday (due to Puritanical and/or anti-Catholic sentiments) and elevated it in the public consciousness. Prior to its release, many Protestant churches preached against the drunken debauchery associated with the holiday, and it was even illegal to celebrate Christmas in some parts of the US. It's really not all that much of an exaggeration to say that Dickens's little book basically saved Christmas, at least in the Anglosphere.note Okay, this isnâ€™t strictly true. Christmas was celebrated in Britain as a feast day; however, it was seen as the start of the 12 days of Christmas, and the whole 12 days were celebrated not just one, with the 12th (the 5th of January) day being the big day. This is because when Britain was still a rural economy, the ground was too hard to farm, meaning there wasnâ€™t a lot else to do. However, by Dickens's time the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, and had already eroded most of the traditional celebrations due to people working in the new factories. Dickens was probably worried that the whole holiday was going to disappear altogether at some point.Possibly the most widely-adapted story of all time, and one which has inspired lots of Adaptation Expansion (explaining events and Back Story the book didn't cover). In the television era, countless shows have done at least one episode that thrusts a character into their own Christmas Carol-type scenario, with varying levels of quality. In fact, versions with pre-existing characters are so common that they have led to the creation of the Yet Another Christmas Carol trope. It might possibly also be the source of the Pensieve Flashback. For a list of adaptations (and tropes commonly found in said adaptations), see its Derivative Works page.In 2017, a movie about the creation of the book came out called The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring Dan Stevens as Dickens.The copyright on the original story expired (as has the copyright on anything published before 1923), so you can read it on Wikisource (and from other sources) for free.The website JimHillMedia.com (which focuses on Disney news and rumors) did a whopping 40-part series in 2007 called "Scrooge U" which examined many adaptations of this story, both famous and obscure, live-action and animated, serious and parodistic, with all kinds of alternate settings.The British Film Institute has posted the earliest surviving (though in-complete) film version of the story on YouTube; for its time it was a very modern undertaking, special-effects wise (1901). The earliest surviving complete film adaptation is the Thomas Edison version of 1910.Not to be confused with actual Christmas Carols.
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A Christmas Carol / int_105cabdd	comment	Jacob Marley Apparel: Worn by exactly whom you think, although Scrooge notes that the trope is older than that and ghosts in haunted houses are often said to drag chains. Dickens adds the twist that Marley's chains are made from the moneyboxes and ledgers that symbolize his selfish ways. Marley is also dressed in the clothes he was wearing when he died, but has the added accessory of a scarf that was bound around his jaw to keep it shut in the coffin.
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A Christmas Carol / int_17f88647	type	Egocentrically Religious
A Christmas Carol / int_17f88647	comment	Egocentrically Religious: Discussed. Scrooge notes to the Ghost of Christmas Present that it seems like the spirit wants people to suffer by closing bakeries on Sundays. The spirit is quick to correct Scrooge that he wants no such thing, and that people invoke the name of God all the time to do things that benefit them. And when they do, that's on the men who invoke God's name, not God himself. note This was Dickens giving his thoughts on a political idea of the day. In 1843, most places in London were closed on Sunday, although bakers and grocers sometimes left their ovens on for poor people to heat up their meals, either as a charity or for a small fee. However, there was a group in London who was campaigning to force businesses to stop doing this, ostensibly because it was a Christian value to be completely closed on Sunday, whether or not it helped anybody. Since Dickens was a man who frequently included themes of the rich needing to help the poor in his body of work, Dickens naturally wasn't too happy about that, and included this scene as a jab at the people campaigning to make the shops turn their ovens off on Sunday.
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A Christmas Carol / int_188668f2	type	Redemption Quest
A Christmas Carol / int_188668f2	comment	Redemption Quest: The whole story was Scrooge's, going from revisiting his Dark and Troubled Past, learning empathy from those working under him, and grasping the consequences of his actions, culminating in his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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A Christmas Carol / int_1ae27a74	type	Fridge Horror
A Christmas Carol / int_1ae27a74	comment	Fridge Horror: In-universe, when the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come leads him to a graveyard, Scrooge realizes it resembles the Grim Reaper and becomes newly fearful of it.
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A Christmas Carol / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
A Christmas Carol / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: Downplayed and discussed. While Scrooge's newfound generosity and joyous behavior prove sincere enough to be accepted, it's such a complete and total change of attitude that the people he reunites with on Christmas Day are very alarmed and not quite sure what to expect at first; he offers a personal apology as well as a donation to the portly charity collector when they meet again, feeling ashamed of his earlier behavior, and Bob thinks for a fleeting moment his boss might have gone mad when Scrooge announces he's raising his salary for coming in late. The penultimate paragraph mentions that a few never took Scrooge's change seriously and thought of him as a ridiculous old fool, but Scrooge let them mock him, knowing that some people will scorn anything that happens for good, and appreciating that he at least brought some laughter into their lives.
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A Christmas Carol / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
A Christmas Carol / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the beginning Charles Dickens speaks directly to the reader to impress upon them that Jacob Marley was Dead to Begin With. He explains this one fact is absolutely crucial to the story, and therefore warrants extensive Word of God confirmation, from death certificate to door-nail. invoked Dickens continues to do this throughout the book, at one point telling the reader that "I am standing, in the spirit, at your elbow".
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A Christmas Carol / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
A Christmas Carol / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: All four ghosts are harsh in their own ways towards Scrooge, but it's to force him to confront the errors of his ways and make him pull a Heelâ€“Face Turn. Marley: The ghost of Scrooge's former business partner delivers a very stark warning about what awaits Scrooge if he doesn't clean up his act. Scrooge even begs of Marley to "speak comfort" to him, but Marley insists that there's nothing comforting coming if Scrooge doesn't change. Past: Scrooge is shown visions of the past that make it clear that he could have had a better life if only he'd looked at things a little bit differently, and that his greed has consumed him. Scrooge outright calls viewing these past events "torture" and begs it to stop towards the end, but the spirit presses on. Present: The spirit gives a few Ironic Echoes by throwing Scrooge's words about poor people back in his face, showing how happy people are with less money (including the Cratchit family), and that Scrooge could do something about it if only he chose to. Yet to Come: Besides the spirit's form invoking the image of The Grim Reaper, the final spirit shows that Scrooge will die alone, unmourned, and unloved. Many people are happy that he's dead, and Tiny Tim's early death is because Scrooge is such a miser that he won't give Bob Cratchit a fair salary, implying that Tiny Tim's blood is on Scrooge's hands.
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A Christmas Carol / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
A Christmas Carol / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Used twice, both times by the Ghost of Christmas Present to Scrooge, revisiting Scrooge's disdainful replies after being asked for a charitable contribution. The relevant parts are bolded below. Later, when Ignorance and Want step out from under the Ghost of Christmas Present's robe:
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A Christmas Carol / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
A Christmas Carol / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: Jacob Marley is forever chained to moneyboxes and safes, symbolizing his greed — all his wealth in life is now beyond useless to him. Scrooge sees other ghosts of rich men he knew who are roaming the streets of London — now they're forced to witness firsthand the misery of the poor whom they scorned to help in life.
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A Christmas Carol / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
A Christmas Carol / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Scrooge at first mistakes Belle's daughter for her, until he sees Belle herself as an older woman.
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A Christmas Carol / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
A Christmas Carol / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge an incredibly disturbing future. However, this is in the effort to avoid that future. This also applies to the other ghosts, including the otherwise jovial Ghost of Christmas Present, who pulls no punches in throwing Scrooge's own words back at him.
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A Christmas Carol / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
A Christmas Carol / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: The charity collectors are sometimes depicted as this, even though the original book describes them both as portly.
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A Christmas Carol / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
A Christmas Carol / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Littlest Cancer Patient Tiny Tim dies in the Bad Future because Scrooge never gave Bob Cratchit enough money to afford Tim's treatment. Tim's death isn't shown to Scrooge or the reader, but the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come makes it very clear that Tim is dead, and Scrooge indirectly has Tim's blood on his hands.
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A Christmas Carol / int_280f59bf	type	Extremely Short Timespan
A Christmas Carol / int_280f59bf	comment	Extremely Short Time Span: The visions encompassing several decades notwithstanding, the story begins just before close of business on December 24th, and ends shortly after opening on December 26th. Lampshaded by Scrooge, who assumes that Christmas Past took the whole night and that Christmas Present is the next night and is shocked when he realizes that he's woken up on Christmas Day. There is clearly something weird going on with time over the course of the Ghosts' visits. Marley explicitly tells Scrooge that the three Christmas Spirits will visit on three separate nights. When Marley leaves and Scrooge goes to sleep for the first time, it is past 2 a.m. on the 25th; when he wakes up again (an hour before the Ghost of Christmas Past's arrival), he is astonished to find that it is midnight, somehow. A similar "reset" happens between Past's visit and Present's, and Present's visitâ€”which is implied to end on Twelfth Nightâ€”flows straight into Yet to Come's without a break. When Scrooge finally returns to his own room, it's the 25th again/still.
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A Christmas Carol / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
A Christmas Carol / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Fred, Bob Cratchit, and Tiny Tim compete to see who best exemplifies this. Fred is always jovial, Bob is a good man caught with a terrible boss, and Tiny Tim is purely innocent in every respect.
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A Christmas Carol / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
A Christmas Carol / int_29292e6d	comment	Jacob Marley was this in life, to the point that he's condemned to be Walking the Earth for all eternity, literally weighed down by the lockboxes and ledgers he cultivated in life.
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A Christmas Carol / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
A Christmas Carol / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: An in-universe example. Scrooge continues to call his business "Scrooge and Marley" even though Marley's been dead for years because he thinks it would be a waste of money to change the name.
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A Christmas Carol / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
A Christmas Carol / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: The Trope Namer (even before this site). Although Scrooge has money, and is always making more, he's stingy in his home life and ungenerous to others. Part of his Heelâ€“Face Turn is learning that he can't just wait around and say that there are alternatives to people like him refusing to help the poor; Scrooge has to actively help people if he wants the world to be a better place.
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A Christmas Carol / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
A Christmas Carol / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: When Fred invites Scrooge to Christmas dinner.
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A Christmas Carol / int_2fac1b86	type	Flying Dutchman
A Christmas Carol / int_2fac1b86	comment	Flying Dutchman: Jacob Marley shows up to give a warning to Scrooge that if he doesn't reform himself and find redemption, then Scrooge will spend the rest of eternity Walking the Earth as a ghost like Marley, weighed down by the avarice and greed that he kept in life, unable to interact with anyone and unable to help those who suffer. Marley doesn't get a happy ending, either; he notes in his conversation to Scrooge that it's too late for Marley himself to find redemption, but there may be hope yet for Scrooge. After Marley's warning, he flies out of Scrooge's window to show a similar gaggle of ghosts, desperately wailing for someone to help a starving mother and her baby, but completely unable to do anything but lament her fate and their own.
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A Christmas Carol / int_33175dd1	type	Fashion Hurts
A Christmas Carol / int_33175dd1	comment	Fashion Hurts: Peter Cratchit's collar isn't comfortable, but he's still proud to be wearing it.
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A Christmas Carol / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
A Christmas Carol / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Much of the first chapter is largely an exercise in showing how mean and bitter Scrooge is, but his line about letting the poor die off is particularly thoughtless and cruel.
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A Christmas Carol / int_36e1cea	type	The Punishment Is the Crime
A Christmas Carol / int_36e1cea	comment	The Punishment Is the Crime: How Fred feels about Scrooge's antisocial behavior.
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A Christmas Carol / int_3782508d	type	Monochrome Apparition
A Christmas Carol / int_3782508d	comment	Monochrome Apparition: Having appeared on Scrooge's doorknocker, Marley's face is said to have a "livid" note dark blue-grey colour.
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A Christmas Carol / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
A Christmas Carol / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Most of the story lays somewhere in the middle until the end where it becomes one of the most idealistic stories in classic literature.
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A Christmas Carol / int_3bad6ba6	type	Two of Your Earth Minutes
A Christmas Carol / int_3bad6ba6	comment	Two of Your Earth Minutes: The Ghost of Christmas Past comments that Old Fezziwig has spent "a few pounds of your mortal money" on the Christmas party.
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A Christmas Carol / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
A Christmas Carol / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: When Ebenezer declines Fred's invitation to attend a Christmas party and Fred urges him not to be cross, Scrooge gives the following response:
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A Christmas Carol / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
A Christmas Carol / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Scrooge goes from being a hard-hearted, crotchety curmudgeon to a man who cares about others, raises Bob Cratchit's pay, and saves Tiny Tim from dying.
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A Christmas Carol / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
A Christmas Carol / int_3dfdc686	comment	Time-Passes Montage: Broadly the entire visit to the past, but most especially the moment in the schoolroom when Scrooge sees his entire childhood pass in moments.
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A Christmas Carol / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
A Christmas Carol / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: The opening notes that Scrooge was the sole mourner at Marley's funeral seven years before, and he wasn't too broken up about it as he did a lot of business that day. Nobody mourns Scroogeâ€™s future death at all.
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A Christmas Carol / int_4189da7a	type	Just Here for the Free Snacks
A Christmas Carol / int_4189da7a	comment	Just Here for the Free Snacks: One of Scrooge's associates in the Bad Future is overheard saying he'd be willing to go to Scrooge's funeral if lunch was provided.
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A Christmas Carol / int_42f71b6c	type	Thriving Ex-Crush
A Christmas Carol / int_42f71b6c	comment	Thriving Ex-Crush: Scrooge is shown by The Ghost of Christmas Past that Belle, who had broken up with him because of his greed, was now happily married and with children and a loving, doting husband. Scrooge, meanwhile, is a solitary miser whose only family left is his nephew, whom Scrooge chooses to avoid, at least until his reformation.
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A Christmas Carol / int_44749cee	type	Nothing but Skin and Bones
A Christmas Carol / int_44749cee	comment	Nothing but Skin and Bones: The children Ignorance and Want.
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A Christmas Carol / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
A Christmas Carol / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: The Ghost of Christmas Past, who is also of Vague Age. Some adaptations make it a child to settle the confusion (it's harder to tell whether someone is male or female if it's a kid), while others make it explicitly a man or a woman. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is an ambiguous case too, being voiceless and completely shrouded in its black cloak.
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A Christmas Carol / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
A Christmas Carol / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Scrooge is visited by four ghosts: Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and the Future Yet to Come. In the fourth act, Ebenezer witnesses ominous signs of a deceased man whose possessions have been plundered by the charwoman, laundress, and the undertaker at old Joe's dingy pawn shop. Scrooge mentions that the dead man's fate might be his own. Later, when he visits the cemetery, he discovers that the name on the tombstone is his own. Ebenezer pleads with the Spirit for another chance to make amends, which is granted when he awakens from the nightmare. In the fourth act, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come brings Scrooge into a time where Tiny Tim Cratchit passed away after the shadows of a crutch without an owner, and a vacant seat foretold by the Ghost of Christmas Present have been unchanged. Bob promises to visit Tiny Tim's grave each Sunday in remembrance.
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A Christmas Carol / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
A Christmas Carol / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As uncaring and callous as Scrooge is, he isn't evil, he's simply a good person who has forgotten what it means to be good. When he's reminded of how much fun he had working for Fezziwig, Scrooge instantly realizes how horribly he treats Bob Cratchit and wants to make amends for it. And spending just a few moments in the presence of Tiny Tim is enough to make Scrooge horrified at the idea of him dying.
A Christmas Carol / int_4781adbb	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_4781adbb	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_4781adbb
A Christmas Carol / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
A Christmas Carol / int_4a57732a	comment	Scrooge lost his mother at a young age, had a Friendless Background at a boarding school, his sister died in childbirth, and his fiancÃ©e broke up with him at Christmas. It's also stated that his father was distant to him, leaving him at school over the holidays.
A Christmas Carol / int_4a57732a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_4a57732a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_4a57732a
A Christmas Carol / int_4b139c2a	type	Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper
A Christmas Carol / int_4b139c2a	comment	Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper: The story employs this for Scrooge, who is first visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley who warns him of his impending doom. He doesn't take it seriously and so is later visited by three ghosts of Christmas; the last one, in particular, makes him beg for a longer life so that he can enact the moral learnt from the three.
A Christmas Carol / int_4b139c2a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_4b139c2a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_4b139c2a
A Christmas Carol / int_4b86a724	type	Getting Crap Past the Radar
A Christmas Carol / int_4b86a724	comment	Getting Crap Past the Radar: An odd example, as it's only euphemistic in modern times, while when it was written the meaning was quite clear. When Bob Crachit apologizes to Scrooge for being late at work, Bob mentions he was making himself "very merry" the previous day. In today's terms, it's a vague way of saying he was celebrating Christmas too hard and accidentally slept in. At the time it was written, the meaning clearly was Bob drank too much on Christmas and the ensuing hangover caused him to oversleep.
A Christmas Carol / int_4b86a724	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_4b86a724	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_4b86a724
A Christmas Carol / int_4e07ef21	type	Acid Reflux Nightmare
A Christmas Carol / int_4e07ef21	comment	Acid Reflux Nightmare: What Scrooge thinks Marley is at first.
A Christmas Carol / int_4e07ef21	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_4e07ef21	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_4e07ef21
A Christmas Carol / int_4e4ea654	type	Workaholic
A Christmas Carol / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Scrooge is so adamant about working that he only reluctantly gives Bob the day off.
A Christmas Carol / int_4e4ea654	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_4e4ea654	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_4e4ea654
A Christmas Carol / int_5111ff0	type	Kill the Poor
A Christmas Carol / int_5111ff0	comment	Kill the Poor: Although he doesn't advocate outright killing the poor, Ebenezer Scrooge does advocate the poor offing themselves...
A Christmas Carol / int_5111ff0	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_5111ff0	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_5111ff0
A Christmas Carol / int_524904cd	type	Pensieve Flashback
A Christmas Carol / int_524904cd	comment	Pensieve Flashback: Probably the Trope Maker. In the span of one night, Scrooge sees not just his past, but the present, and what will be. The spirits show him visions in which he is fully immersed, but he remains invisible to the people in the visions.
A Christmas Carol / int_524904cd	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_524904cd	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_524904cd
A Christmas Carol / int_53c37f0c	type	Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!
A Christmas Carol / int_53c37f0c	comment	Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Scrooge learns this lesson thanks to the three ghosts. Being uncaring for his fellow man will doom Scrooge to being bitterly unhappy with what time he has left, and lead him to a terrible fate after death. Changing his mind vastly improves the quality of his life.
A Christmas Carol / int_53c37f0c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_53c37f0c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_53c37f0c
A Christmas Carol / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
A Christmas Carol / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Double Subversion. The Ghost of Christmas Present considers it a serious likelihood that Tiny Tim will die from his illness, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows Scrooge the Bad Future in which this happens, complete with the full emotional repercussions on the Cratchit family. It's mentioned that whatever Tiny Tim is sick with, it's not inherently fatal; it's just that the Cratchit family is too poor to afford the treatment for it. However, thanks to Scrooge's Heelâ€“Face Turn and giving Bob Cratchit a rise, Tiny Tim gets the treatment after all and lives.
A Christmas Carol / int_550754dc	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_550754dc	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_550754dc
A Christmas Carol / int_56016537	type	Clingy Child
A Christmas Carol / int_56016537	comment	Clingy Child: The Ghost of Christmas Present counsels the miser Scrooge. Near the end of his hour, this ghost pulls aside his robes to reveal two sullied and surly children clinging to his legs. "The boy is Ignorance. The girl is Want. Beware them both, but especially the boy".
A Christmas Carol / int_56016537	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_56016537	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_56016537
A Christmas Carol / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
A Christmas Carol / int_569a95e9	comment	Scrooge "had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle". By that, Dickens means that Scrooge did not have any future interaction or communication with ghosts after his reformation. Meanwhile, "Total Abstinence Principle" was a phrase commonly associated with teetotalism, i.e. never drinking any alcohol or "spirits". (Yes, Dickens is indulging in a pun).
A Christmas Carol / int_569a95e9	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_569a95e9	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_569a95e9
A Christmas Carol / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
A Christmas Carol / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: A famous example: the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is deeply frightening, resembles the Grim Reaper in his heartless pallor, is cold, pitiless, and silent as the grave, and shows what is by far the most horrible of Scrooge's visions, but is just as kindhearted as the rest of the spirits and shows him the grim truth only so that he may finally realize what it means and change it for the better. Lampshaded by Scrooge himself, who states that whilst he fears this ghost more than any of the others, he knows it is acting for his benefit and so follows it without question.
A Christmas Carol / int_575fd5e2	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_575fd5e2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_575fd5e2
A Christmas Carol / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
A Christmas Carol / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Occurs when Fred invites Ebenezer to a Christmas party:
A Christmas Carol / int_583ec33e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_583ec33e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_583ec33e
A Christmas Carol / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
A Christmas Carol / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Everybody seems to be a nice, normal person while Ebenezer Scrooge is grumpy and indifferent, until the end when the ghosts give him a badly needed attitude adjustment.
A Christmas Carol / int_58962105	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_58962105	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_58962105
A Christmas Carol / int_58c32292	type	Catchphrase Interruptus
A Christmas Carol / int_58c32292	comment	Catchphrase Interruptus: "He tried to say 'Humbug!' but stopped at the first syllable".
A Christmas Carol / int_58c32292	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_58c32292	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_58c32292
A Christmas Carol / int_59dc5a90	type	Food as Characterization
A Christmas Carol / int_59dc5a90	comment	Food as Characterization: Food is a recurring element of the story, often serving as a reflection of a person's holiday spirit. Scrooge eats a miserable saucepan of gruel for Christmas dinner, which reflects both his cheap, miserly nature and his total disdain for the holiday. Once he is redeemed at the end, he happily buys the Cratchits an enormous prize turkey for their feast, signifying his growth into a charitable person. The Ghost of Christmas Present sits atop a throne of delicious food, symbolizing the abundance of Christmas. The Cratchits have a small but humble meal for Christmas, consisting of a roast goose, some side dishes, and pudding. The size of the meal matters not to the family, because the bond that they have together is what makes the occasion special.
A Christmas Carol / int_59dc5a90	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_59dc5a90	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_59dc5a90
A Christmas Carol / int_5a33cf5	type	Future Loser
A Christmas Carol / int_5a33cf5	comment	Future Loser: Sort of. Scrooge isn't remembered with any fondness in the future shown to him by the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
A Christmas Carol / int_5a33cf5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_5a33cf5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_5a33cf5
A Christmas Carol / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
A Christmas Carol / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, who is completely shrouded, his true form always just out of sight. It makes sense in that he's the embodiment of a man's blindness toward his own future.
A Christmas Carol / int_5a3b8032	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_5a3b8032	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_5a3b8032
A Christmas Carol / int_5ac26edf	type	Friendly Ghost
A Christmas Carol / int_5ac26edf	comment	Friendly Ghost: The ghosts of Christmases Past and Present for example, seeing how they're always happy, cheery and polite towards Scrooge. Averted with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who while benevolent like the other ghosts, is downright terrifying.
A Christmas Carol / int_5ac26edf	featureApplicability	-1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_5ac26edf	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_5ac26edf
A Christmas Carol / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
A Christmas Carol / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Scrooge, at the end of his spiritual journey. Of course, his cold and uncaring haughtiness has already been irreparably shattered.
A Christmas Carol / int_5b1a2f4e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_5b1a2f4e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_5b1a2f4e
A Christmas Carol / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
A Christmas Carol / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Belle reasons that Scrooge would only be miserable and filled with regret if he married a poor girl like her, so she breaks off their engagement.
A Christmas Carol / int_60547993	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_60547993	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_60547993
A Christmas Carol / int_60907b2d	type	Heartfelt Apology
A Christmas Carol / int_60907b2d	comment	Heartfelt Apology: Part of Scrooge's Heelâ€“Face Turn involves him apologizing to everyone he was a jerk to — Bob Cratchit, Fred and his wife, the charity collectors.
A Christmas Carol / int_60907b2d	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_60907b2d	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_60907b2d
A Christmas Carol / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
A Christmas Carol / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Scrooge has a change of heart after being haunted by the three spirits. Seeing what the path of being miserly, cruel, and closed off from the world will do to him, Scrooge vows to become a better person. And according to the narration at the end of the story, Scrooge was "better than his word" in this regard, becoming "as good a master and as good a man" as anyone in the city had ever seen, even becoming something of a second father to Tiny Tim.
A Christmas Carol / int_617f0563	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_617f0563	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_617f0563
A Christmas Carol / int_62b2f03	type	Berate and Switch
A Christmas Carol / int_62b2f03	comment	Berate and Switch: Ebenezer Scrooge makes use of this, when Bob Cratchit comes in the day after Christmas:
A Christmas Carol / int_62b2f03	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_62b2f03	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_62b2f03
A Christmas Carol / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
A Christmas Carol / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: The Future spirit shows Scrooge a scene where his possessions are callously sold off just after his death. One old lady actually stripped a nice shirt off of Scrooge's corpse.
A Christmas Carol / int_6480c255	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6480c255	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6480c255
A Christmas Carol / int_683bb900	type	Last Disrespects
A Christmas Carol / int_683bb900	comment	Last Disrespects: The businessmen discussing the circumstances of Scrooge's death.
A Christmas Carol / int_683bb900	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_683bb900	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_683bb900
A Christmas Carol / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
A Christmas Carol / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: Subverted with Scrooge. He's not necessarily evil, but he's truly a bitter man towards everyone, including his only living relative Fred. He gets better in the end.
A Christmas Carol / int_688afa6a	featureApplicability	-0.3
A Christmas Carol / int_688afa6a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_688afa6a
A Christmas Carol / int_6891554e	type	Parlor Games
A Christmas Carol / int_6891554e	comment	Parlor Games: The guests at Fred's party play some, including Blind Man's Buff and Twenty Questions. In some modern adaptations, characters at the analogous party play Charades.
A Christmas Carol / int_6891554e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6891554e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6891554e
A Christmas Carol / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
A Christmas Carol / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: When Marley shows Scrooge the wandering ghosts, Scrooge notices "one old ghost in a white waistcoat", who he realizes is an old friend of his, crying at being unable to assist an unwed mother. Dickens meant this ghost to be "the gentleman in the white waistcoat" from Oliver Twist, a character who is very harsh to Oliver and denies him food.
A Christmas Carol / int_68da6712	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_68da6712	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_68da6712
A Christmas Carol / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
A Christmas Carol / int_6bd689ca	comment	The Ghost of Christmas Present gives this in the form of a Meaningful Echo. When Scrooge asks if Ignorance and Want have no "refuge or resource" from a terrible life, the Ghost asks "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" to Scrooge. It pierces Scrooge's armor because Scrooge said the same thing to some men who wanted donations to help needy children, so Scrooge's own words are being thrown back in his face as a way of showing him how cruel he's been.
A Christmas Carol / int_6bd689ca	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6bd689ca	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6bd689ca
A Christmas Carol / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
A Christmas Carol / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The word "scrooge" was originally slang for "to squeeze", as in Scrooge's tight-fistedness.
A Christmas Carol / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6bda9a30
A Christmas Carol / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
A Christmas Carol / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: The Ghost of Christmas Present initially comes across as a very jolly fellow. He offers a seemingly-endless buffet, invites Scrooge to get to know him, and appears ready for a laugh at any moment. However, once he and Scrooge observe the Crachits, Present becomes downright nasty towards Scrooge (justifiably so) and giving repeated ironic echoes. Of the three spirits, Present is the one that comes across as downright angry at the kind of person Scrooge is.
A Christmas Carol / int_6c75e0e4	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6c75e0e4	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6c75e0e4
A Christmas Carol / int_6d4ac1f1	type	Officially Shortened Title
A Christmas Carol / int_6d4ac1f1	comment	Officially Shortened Title: The full title is A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. But when was the last time anyone called it that?
A Christmas Carol / int_6d4ac1f1	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6d4ac1f1	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6d4ac1f1
A Christmas Carol / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
A Christmas Carol / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: As with a lot of Dickens books, the narrator refers to himself multiple times, despite not being a character within the story. Take, for instance, this little digression at the beginning:
A Christmas Carol / int_6d57a234	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6d57a234	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6d57a234
A Christmas Carol / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
A Christmas Carol / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Thanks to the sign above his door, some people call Scrooge by Marley's name as well as his own. Scrooge answers to both names, as it's all the same to him.
A Christmas Carol / int_6d7cd3e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6d7cd3e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6d7cd3e
A Christmas Carol / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
A Christmas Carol / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Scrooge is shown that Belle married another and had many children.
A Christmas Carol / int_6d9bc945	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6d9bc945	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6d9bc945
A Christmas Carol / int_6f9da277	type	A Foggy Day in London Town
A Christmas Carol / int_6f9da277	comment	A Foggy Day in London Town: Heavy fog shrouds London on Christmas Eve, pouring in through cracks in the buildings and making it hard for Scrooge to find his way to his own front door. When Scrooge wakes up on Christmas Day a changed man, the narration makes a point of noting that the fog has lifted and the day is bright and clear.
A Christmas Carol / int_6f9da277	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6f9da277	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6f9da277
A Christmas Carol / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
A Christmas Carol / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Belle can see that Scrooge doesn't love her any more and that he intends to stick by their engagement only because he sees it as a contract he's bound to. She decides it's better for them both if she releases him from the obligation.
A Christmas Carol / int_6fb5cb83	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_6fb5cb83	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_6fb5cb83
A Christmas Carol / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
A Christmas Carol / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come's appearance suggests that he may be associated with this. It's mentioned that all Scrooge can see of the spirit is a single pale hand; other than that, the ghost is a tall creature in a completely concealing robe.
A Christmas Carol / int_7142b38a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_7142b38a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_7142b38a
A Christmas Carol / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
A Christmas Carol / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Scrooge lost his mother at a young age, had a Friendless Background at a boarding school, his sister died in childbirth, and his fiancÃ©e broke up with him at Christmas. It's also stated that his father was distant to him, leaving him at school over the holidays. Belle breaks it off with Scrooge after realising he did not truly love her anymore. She is wearing a mourning-dress when she does this, which suggests that someone close to her died not long before.
A Christmas Carol / int_71e8a5c5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_71e8a5c5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_71e8a5c5
A Christmas Carol / int_725583e8	type	Good Feels Good
A Christmas Carol / int_725583e8	comment	Good Feels Good: Scrooge is a much happier man when he opens his heart to others after pulling a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
A Christmas Carol / int_725583e8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_725583e8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_725583e8
A Christmas Carol / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
A Christmas Carol / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: The Ghost of Christmas Present had more than 1,800 siblings (presumably all deceased), each representing Christmas of a preceding year. On the mortal level, Scrooge's former fiancÃ©e's house is overflowing with children, and the Cratchits have more children than the narrator can be bothered to name.
A Christmas Carol / int_757bbdb8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_757bbdb8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_757bbdb8
A Christmas Carol / int_77195de1	type	Contagious Laughter
A Christmas Carol / int_77195de1	comment	Contagious Laughter: Lampshaded by the narrator when Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present look in on Scrooge's nephew and his guests.
A Christmas Carol / int_77195de1	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_77195de1	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_77195de1
A Christmas Carol / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
A Christmas Carol / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Belle accuses Scrooge of being this when she breaks up with him. He's so insistent on pursuing wealth at all costs that there's no room in Scrooge's heart for anything else, not even her. While Scrooge is an Honest Corporate Executive who never tries to cheat anybody out of money that he isn't owed, he's still so dogged in his pursuit of money that, by the time the story proper has begun, he's known to the people only as a crotchety old miser who is "as solitary as an oyster" with no life outside his job.
A Christmas Carol / int_775a1af6	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_775a1af6	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_775a1af6
A Christmas Carol / int_77e73dc7	type	Food as Bribe
A Christmas Carol / int_77e73dc7	comment	Food as Bribe: Discussed. When a group of gentlemen are wondering aloud who in London would even bother to attend Scrooge's funeral in vision of the future where Scrooge dies, one of them says he might attend if a free lunch is provided.
A Christmas Carol / int_77e73dc7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_77e73dc7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_77e73dc7
A Christmas Carol / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
A Christmas Carol / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: Scrooge has several faults before his Heelâ€“Face Turn, but being a Corrupt Corporate Executive isn't one of them. It is stated how good his word is when it's mentioned he was one of those who signed Jacob Marley's death certificate. So it's not that Scrooge is dishonest; he's just heartless. He'll only go after people who owe him money, but he'll do so without pity, compassion, or empathy.
A Christmas Carol / int_7a555627	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_7a555627	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_7a555627
A Christmas Carol / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
A Christmas Carol / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Right at the start of the book, Scrooge replies to Fred's "Merry Christmas" by asking "What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough", to which Fred responds "What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough". This is the first time Scrooge is lost for words, and can only reiterate his famous "humbug!". Finding out the answer to this question is the whole role of the Ghost of Christmas Past. The Ghost of Christmas Present gives this in the form of a Meaningful Echo. When Scrooge asks if Ignorance and Want have no "refuge or resource" from a terrible life, the Ghost asks "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" to Scrooge. It pierces Scrooge's armor because Scrooge said the same thing to some men who wanted donations to help needy children, so Scrooge's own words are being thrown back in his face as a way of showing him how cruel he's been.
A Christmas Carol / int_7b6e47a5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_7b6e47a5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_7b6e47a5
A Christmas Carol / int_7bc90010	type	Hearing Voices
A Christmas Carol / int_7bc90010	comment	Hearing Voices: There's a whole paragraph, during the scene where the Ghost of Christmas Future is showing Scrooge the body on the bed, which is basically a meditation on death. ("Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious. It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a manâ€™s. Strike, Shadow, strike! And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal!") This is followed in the next paragraph with the narration saying, "No voice pronounced these words in Scrooge's ears, and yet he heard them when he looked upon the bed". Later, as they approach the Cratchit house, Scrooge hears a Bible verse out of nowhere. (Mark 9:36, "And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them"). The implication seems to be that the otherwise voiceless Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is talking inside Scrooge's head.
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A Christmas Carol / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
A Christmas Carol / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After delivering his Ironic Echo to Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Present takes him to task for presuming he has the right to refer to some people as a "surplus population".
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A Christmas Carol / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
A Christmas Carol / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Scrooge is drawn, usually depicted, and/or played as an old man, but by modern standards he's probably only middle-aged, though in the early Victorian era being middle-aged was considered to be old anyway, due in part to the industrial era work hazards which could considerably shorten a person's lifespan. One early stage adaptation in Dickens' lifetime gave his age as 57.
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A Christmas Carol / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
A Christmas Carol / int_7f298d3d	comment	Right at the start of the book, Scrooge replies to Fred's "Merry Christmas" by asking "What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough", to which Fred responds "What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough". This is the first time Scrooge is lost for words, and can only reiterate his famous "humbug!". Finding out the answer to this question is the whole role of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
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A Christmas Carol / int_7f760614	type	The Silent Bob
A Christmas Carol / int_7f760614	comment	The Silent Bob: The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. He never speaks, but can get his point across to Scrooge nonetheless. He may be able to communicate telepathically; see Hearing Voices above.
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A Christmas Carol / int_7f760614	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
A Christmas Carol / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: The firm of Scrooge & Marley has been just Scrooge for the last seven years (Scrooge has been too cheap to change the sign), and Scrooge lives alone in a big, mostly empty and dark house.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
A Christmas Carol / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Unlike many adaptations, which portray the scene as a sobering moment, Scrooge doesn't seem too bothered about being the answer to Fred's guessing game during his time with the Ghost of Christmas Present. He's had so much fun watching the party that he only wishes he could thank them for toasting to his health.
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A Christmas Carol / int_81dd0c45	type	Bizarre Dream Rationalization
A Christmas Carol / int_81dd0c45	comment	Bizarre Dream Rationalization: Scrooge initially assumes his visit from Marley is a bad dream caused by indigestion.
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A Christmas Carol / int_82af0940	type	Jacob Marley Warning
A Christmas Carol / int_82af0940	comment	Jacob Marley Warning: Another Trope Namer. Jacob Marley represents what could happen to Scrooge if he doesn't mend his ways — a spirit cursed to walk the earth for all eternity as a restless ghost, literally weighed down by his sins.
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A Christmas Carol / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
A Christmas Carol / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: When the two gentlemen putting together a fund for the poor visit Scrooge and Marley's and are informed that Marley has been dead for seven years, one optimistically remarks that "we have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner" - a fully accurate statement in the sense that in life Marley was just as much a miserly skinflint as Scrooge and would have refused to make any such donation, just as Scrooge proceeds to do.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8510bb62	type	Saved by the Church Bell
A Christmas Carol / int_8510bb62	comment	Saved by the Church Bell: The book famously ends with Scrooge waking up to church bells ringing, letting him know that his haunted night is over and Christmas day has come at last. After the horrid vision of the future he's seen, Scrooge is overjoyed and takes the opportunity to turn his life into something as beautiful as the holiday knell.
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A Christmas Carol / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
A Christmas Carol / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: If its physical description is to be believed, the Ghost of Christmas Past certainly qualifies. It looks human, but it's impossible to tell if it's old or young, male or female — and it flickers like a candle flame, so that it looks like it has multiple heads or other limbs. Scrooge himself is described in such terms early on, as the cold within him froze his features, made his eyes red and his lips blue, and made external heat and cold have no effect on him whatsoever.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
A Christmas Carol / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: Scrooge is your typical Malthusian aristocrat of the time. Suffice to say that another of Dickens's fictional followers of Malthus, Filer in "The Chimes", says the poor "have no earthly right or business to be born. And that we know they haven't. We reduced it to a mathematical certainty long ago!" Scrooge's battlefield is more market than campaign.
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A Christmas Carol / int_857744e7	type	Chew-Out Fake-Out
A Christmas Carol / int_857744e7	comment	Chew-Out Fake-Out: The day after Christmas, Scrooge pretends to be his old grouchy self and scolds Bob for coming in late.
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A Christmas Carol / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
A Christmas Carol / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: Scrooge is shown a vision of the man Belle married after she broke off their engagement.
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A Christmas Carol / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
A Christmas Carol / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: By the standards of his time, Scrooge wasn't a particularly harsh employer, aside from the pittance he paid in wages. Many people worked right through Christmas—note that when "reformed," Scrooge expects to find a poultry shop open on Christmas Day itself, and is not disappointed.note In ages before refrigeration, it was common for people to buy their food on the day they cooked it, hence grocers/butchers/poulterers/fishmongers/etc. would likely be open on Christmas, at least in the morning. At one point, Dickens uses a conversation between Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present for an Author Tract about blue laws prohibiting bakeries from being open on Sundays.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
A Christmas Carol / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Ghost of Christmas Past comes quite close to this. It has no defined form, no obvious gender and keeps changing in appearance. It calls quite close to the description of angels, who themselves were examples of this trope.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8970d739	type	The One That Got Away
A Christmas Carol / int_8970d739	comment	The One That Got Away: Belle dumped Scrooge after it became clear that he wasn't in love with her anymore, just seeing her as one more promise he had to fulfill.
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A Christmas Carol / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
A Christmas Carol / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Scrooge prior to his Heelâ€“Face Turn. He is a selfish, crotchety miser who underpays Bob Cratchit to the point where he can't afford the treatment to cure his Inspirationally Disadvantaged son, refuses to give money to an organization providing services to the poor, after which he delivers a speech advocating the poor offing themselves since they deserve nothing better than prisons and workhouses, and only reluctantly gives Bob the day off on Christmas. No wonder he was set to walk the earth fettered with more chains than Jacob Marley had before his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
A Christmas Carol / int_8b442f50	comment	Belle and her husband, who is not Scrooge. Some adaptations of the story make this husband Scrooge's old friend from Fezziwig's apprenticeship, Dick Wilkins, just to further twist the knife.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
A Christmas Carol / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Marley tells Scrooge to expect the spirits on three successive nights, and Scrooge apparently sleeps through entire days to facilitate this, But when he wakes up for the final time, Scrooge finds they did it all in one night, as it's Christmas morning.
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A Christmas Carol / int_8f1bb87c	type	Deliberately Painful Clothing
A Christmas Carol / int_8f1bb87c	comment	Deliberately Painful Clothing: Marley's ghost wears heavy chains as penance for his sins in life.
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A Christmas Carol / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
A Christmas Carol / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come effectively looks like the Grim Reaper, and most of what the spirit shows Scrooge happens after he's dead.
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A Christmas Carol / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
A Christmas Carol / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come doesn't say a word, but may be able to communicate telepathically.
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A Christmas Carol / int_936b8c22	type	Victorian London
A Christmas Carol / int_936b8c22	comment	Victorian London: That being the time and place it was written and set in.
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A Christmas Carol / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
A Christmas Carol / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Scrooge and Tiny Tim's deaths aren't shown in any detail, but it's shown by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that this fate awaits them if Scrooge doesn't mend his ways. When Scrooge pulls a Heelâ€“Face Turn, both Scrooge and Tim live to tell the tale.
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A Christmas Carol / int_9555d7c5	type	All That Glitters
A Christmas Carol / int_9555d7c5	comment	All That Glitters: Ebenezer Scrooge spurns the warmth of his fellow man, both refusing to give and receive kindness, instead focusing on the acquisition of wealth. Despite his vast fortune, he spends almost none of it on comforts, keeping both his home and his office bitterly cold. Scrooge eventually learns from the spirit of his now-deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, the consequences of his greed - specifically that he will spend eternity bound in chains and lockboxes, condemned to wander the earth and never rest.
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A Christmas Carol / int_9622c172	type	Christmas Carolers
A Christmas Carol / int_9622c172	comment	Christmas Carolers: Scrooge chases one off without even opening his office door.
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A Christmas Carol / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
A Christmas Carol / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: Discussed Trope. Scrooge associates the Ghost of Christmas Present with the sort of blue-nosed Moral Guardians who want bake shops closed on Sunday. The Ghost gets pissed and angrily dismisses any connection between angels like himself and the Moral Guardians.
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A Christmas Carol / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
A Christmas Carol / int_970c8a84	comment	Big Fun: The Ghost of Christmas Present is the largest and most jovial of the three spirits. Fezziwig is sometimes portrayed as portly, and all versions of him throw great Christmas parties.
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A Christmas Carol / int_98160158	type	I Hate Past Me
A Christmas Carol / int_98160158	comment	I Hate Past Me: Upon witnessing his past self's firsthand, Scrooge is decidedly not proud of what he's done.
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A Christmas Carol / int_999b994b	type	Dead to Begin With
A Christmas Carol / int_999b994b	comment	Dead to Begin With: The Trope Namer is the first line of the book.
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A Christmas Carol / int_9a480050	type	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
A Christmas Carol / int_9a480050	comment	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Scrooge mocks Marley as being an Acid Reflux Nightmare, then threatens to invoke the trope on himself by swallowing a toothpick whole. Marley promptly scares the daylights out of him with a marrow-chilling howl.
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A Christmas Carol / int_9aaad071	type	HA HA HAâ€”No
A Christmas Carol / int_9aaad071	comment	HA HA HAâ€”No: Inverted at the end of the story. Scrooge pretends he is about to blast Bob for being late, then suddenly announces that he's going to raise his salary, then laughs and shouts, "Merry Christmas!"
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A Christmas Carol / int_9e0a4772	type	Proportional Aging
A Christmas Carol / int_9e0a4772	comment	Proportional Aging: As Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present are out and about watching people celebrate, Scrooge is surprised to see that his companion is rapidly getting older. The spirit explains to Scrooge that his lifespan is only as long as Christmas itself note (the full twelve days; it's mentioned that they visit a Twelfth Night party) and ends that night.
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A Christmas Carol / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
A Christmas Carol / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: When Belle calls off their engagement, telling him that a "golden" idol has displaced her in his heart, the young Scrooge attempts to defend himself by invoking (and mocking) the trope:
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A Christmas Carol / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
A Christmas Carol / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by four ghosts over the course of the night, including the ghost of his dead partner. Unsurprisingly given the title and the story itself, these visitations all occur on Christmas Eve.
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A Christmas Carol / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
A Christmas Carol / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Scrooge gets this quite a bit through the visions from the spirits, but what really breaks him is seeing the Empty Chair Memorial for Tiny Tim in the future. Scrooge realizes that the boy's early demise is indirectly his fault by Scrooge's staunch refusal to pay a fair share.
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A Christmas Carol / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
A Christmas Carol / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Fezziwig, Scrooge's first employer, gave his employees ample money and time off, and held fantastic parties. By the end of it all, Scrooge becomes one too as he wants to help Bob and his family as well as raising his salary.
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A Christmas Carol / int_a40b753	type	Releasing from the Promise
A Christmas Carol / int_a40b753	comment	Releasing from the Promise: Belle releases Ebenezer from his promise to marry her.
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A Christmas Carol / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
A Christmas Carol / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The story goes from bleak and depressing, to scary, to cheerful, to sad, to cheerful again, to scary and sad, to extremely sad, to scary again. It then lastly ends on a cheerful note.
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A Christmas Carol / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
A Christmas Carol / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: One family reacts to Scrooge's death in the alternate future this way, because Scrooge was their lender, and they anticipate either a kinder replacement or at least enough time during the transition to scrape together the money they need. Their situation was that they would have the full amount of the debt to Scrooge, but a day or two after the deadline. Without an extension, which Scrooge would not likely have granted, they were financially ruined. The wife even has a bit of guilt about rejoicing at the death of someone, even Scrooge in this case. While Fred isn't exactly rejoicing, he inherits Scrooge's wealth and Bob Cratchit mentions that he is going to help him.
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A Christmas Carol / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
A Christmas Carol / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come.
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A Christmas Carol / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
A Christmas Carol / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Rather than chapters, the story is divided into "staves" (a British term for a musical staff, thereby tying in with the "carol" theme of the title).
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A Christmas Carol / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
A Christmas Carol / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: Both Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come do this. The entire evening's affairs are one long Jacob Marley Warning about what will happen if Scrooge doesn't shape up his act and turn to helping people instead of hoarding money. They do eventually get through to him, resulting in a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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A Christmas Carol / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
A Christmas Carol / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The narrative examines why Scrooge is always so consistently miserable around Christmas every year by showing many terrible things happened to Scrooge, some of which were around Christmas time. However, multiple characters in the story (supernatural or otherwise) call out this explanation as a petty and shallow reason to be so sour to everyone else, and have Scrooge pull a Heelâ€“Face Turn by instilling the same idea into his head.
A Christmas Carol / int_ad17a1ac	featureApplicability	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
A Christmas Carol / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Scrooge, to Fred, in response to Fred's detailed assertion that Christmas may not make him richer, but certainly does him good: A short while later, after Fred leaves, and Bob Cratchit wishes him a merry Christmas: And when Marley's ghost visits Scrooge in his home:
A Christmas Carol / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
A Christmas Carol / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: When Scrooge asks the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come if his death will elicit any emotion from anybody, the Ghost confirms by showing a family's emotional reaction. That emotion is happiness. Earlier, Scrooge states to the charity workers that he â€œwish to be left aloneâ€�. The shadows of his future reveal that in death, he will be left alone.
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A Christmas Carol / int_b2db3dde	type	Thermostat Tamper Tantrum
A Christmas Carol / int_b2db3dde	comment	Thermostat Tamper Tantrum: While set before thermostats existed, Scrooge still managed to be a temperature tyrant before his time.
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A Christmas Carol / int_b2db3dde	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_b2db3dde
A Christmas Carol / int_b4a44588	type	Tough Love
A Christmas Carol / int_b4a44588	comment	Tough Love: The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come especially doesnâ€™t pull any punches. The spirit shows Scrooge that he'll end up Dying Alone, that Tiny Tim will die from an illness that could have been treated if he'd just paid Bob Cratchit a little more money, and that Scrooge will have all of it coming. And yet, the ghost (and all the others) are doing it out of a desire to give Scrooge a chance to turn himself around.
A Christmas Carol / int_b4a44588	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_b4a44588	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_b4a44588
A Christmas Carol / int_b64ea263	type	Westminster Chimes
A Christmas Carol / int_b64ea263	comment	Westminster Chimes: As Scrooge is awaiting the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past at one o'clock a.m.:
A Christmas Carol / int_b64ea263	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_b64ea263	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_b64ea263
A Christmas Carol / int_ba3454a7	type	Future Me Scares Me
A Christmas Carol / int_ba3454a7	comment	Future Me Scares Me: Well, yes, being a white corpse wrapped in a sheet while people on the streets either laugh at your death or are glad that you are dead is a pretty scary thought.
A Christmas Carol / int_ba3454a7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_ba3454a7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_ba3454a7
A Christmas Carol / int_bafa1190	type	Unfinished Business
A Christmas Carol / int_bafa1190	comment	Unfinished Business: Ghosts of people who did not take care of the poor in this life are doomed to wander the earth observing all the people they could have helped, but lacking the power to do anything.
A Christmas Carol / int_bafa1190	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_bafa1190	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_bafa1190
A Christmas Carol / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
A Christmas Carol / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: A few: Scrooge has the most famous one by being angered every time Christmas is mentioned. Marley gets really pissed off when Scrooge innocently says his old partner was a "good man of business". The Ghost of Christmas Past doesn't take it kindly when Scrooge asks him to cover up with the cap it holds to put the brightness out. The Ghost of Christmas Present doesn't like it when Scrooge confronts him on having the bakers shut down on Sundays. (The poor of London didn't have ovens at home, so they needed to use a baker's oven for anything they couldn't cook over a simple fire.) The Ghost replies that it wasn't his idea. Mrs Cratchit confronts her husband when he announced Mr Scrooge the 'founder of the feast' and she had a point as they are on low income thanks to him.
A Christmas Carol / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_bc74ef27
A Christmas Carol / int_bc848be9	type	Intangible Time Travel
A Christmas Carol / int_bc848be9	comment	Intangible Time Travel: While Scrooge travels through time to the past, the immediate future and the Bad Future, the things the spirits show him are just shadows of things that had been, are, and will be happening.
A Christmas Carol / int_bc848be9	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_bc848be9	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_bc848be9
A Christmas Carol / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
A Christmas Carol / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The main focus on Scrooge's childhood is on his loneliness rather than any acts of kindness, but he deeply loved his sister and seems to have been very fond of Dick Wilkins.
A Christmas Carol / int_be0ad6b7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_be0ad6b7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_be0ad6b7
A Christmas Carol / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
A Christmas Carol / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Mr. and Mrs. Cratchit have many children, despite being poor. It's also shown that they're happy together in spite of their poverty, though Mrs. Cratchit does give a backhanded toast to Scrooge. Fred and his wife invite Scrooge to Christmas dinner, in spite of how miserly and bitter Scrooge is to them. After Scrooge's Heelâ€“Face Turn, they welcome him into their home with open arms. The Fezziwigs are both an old couple, but being together makes them dance like people half their age during their office's Christmas party. Mrs. Fezziwig is described by the narrator as "[Mr. Fezziwig's] partner in every sense of the term. If that's not high praise, tell me higher, and I'll use it". Belle and her husband, who is not Scrooge. Some adaptations of the story make this husband Scrooge's old friend from Fezziwig's apprenticeship, Dick Wilkins, just to further twist the knife.
A Christmas Carol / int_bec0417c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_bec0417c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_bec0417c
A Christmas Carol / int_beca6919	type	Empty Chair Memorial
A Christmas Carol / int_beca6919	comment	Empty Chair Memorial: The Ghost of Christmas Present foresees Tiny Tim's empty chair and his crutch tucked into a corner by next year's Christmas if things do not change from their current course of events. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come does him one better and shows Scrooge the empty chair, along with Tim's grieving family.
A Christmas Carol / int_beca6919	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_beca6919	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_beca6919
A Christmas Carol / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
A Christmas Carol / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The Ghost of Christmas Past's physical appearance, which was allegedly so confusing that the book's original illustrator didn't even attempt to draw it.
A Christmas Carol / int_bef696dd	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_bef696dd	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_bef696dd
A Christmas Carol / int_bf9f3b9	type	Suicide Dare
A Christmas Carol / int_bf9f3b9	comment	Suicide Dare: Charles Dickens uses this to firmly establish Scrooge as a Jerkass at the beginning. When told that many of the poor would rather die than go to the hellish workhouses, Scrooge replies, "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population". An alternative (though hardly much better) interpretation is that rather than actually daring them to actually commit suicide, he's just so callous that he thinks that since they're likely to die of various poverty-related issues anyway, they should basically just lie down in the street and let it happen sooner rather than later. Or, alternately still, he's calling their bluff to show they wouldn't really "rather die" and thus the workhouse isn't really a Fate Worse than Death. Basically, however you parse it, the guy's a Jerkass.
A Christmas Carol / int_bf9f3b9	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_bf9f3b9	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_bf9f3b9
A Christmas Carol / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
A Christmas Carol / int_bfb5f597	comment	Money Is Not Power: Marley died a rich man but it did him no good terrible afterlife where he can do nothing but see the tired masses suffer. He and the other ghosts warn Scrooge that his hoarded wealth won't save him from a lonely and miserable death.
A Christmas Carol / int_bfb5f597	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_bfb5f597	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_bfb5f597
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6bd47	type	Redemption Earns Life
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6bd47	comment	Redemption Earns Life: Scrooge changing his ways and becoming a better person not only saved him from dying the terrible death in the future he was shown but also ultimately saved his soul as well.
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6bd47	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6bd47	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6bd47
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	Murder by Inaction: Played with. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows that Tiny Tim will die without medical treatment. While whatever Tim has isn't necessarily fatal, Scrooge refusing to pay Bob Cratchit a fair salary means that Tiny Tim will die an early death, and Scrooge realizes in the visions of the future that the boy's blood is on his hands.
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6fc5e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6fc5e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c2d6fc5e
A Christmas Carol / int_c2e3f1b4	type	Affluent Ascetic
A Christmas Carol / int_c2e3f1b4	comment	Affluent Ascetic: It's made clear that Scrooge could live very comfortably if he wanted to, but his obsession with hoarding money and spending as little as possible means that his home is quite spartan.
A Christmas Carol / int_c2e3f1b4	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c2e3f1b4	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c2e3f1b4
A Christmas Carol / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
A Christmas Carol / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: There are so many good people in this story. Bob Cratchit, his son Tiny Tim, Scrooge's nephew Fred, Scrooge's deceased sister Fan, his former love Belle, and his beloved boss Fezziwig just to name a few.
A Christmas Carol / int_c5249b29	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c5249b29	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c5249b29
A Christmas Carol / int_c5caf1e5	type	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!
A Christmas Carol / int_c5caf1e5	comment	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: Scrooge scoffs at the idea of his nephew falling in love; according to the narrator, his tone of voice implies that it is "the only thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas".
A Christmas Carol / int_c5caf1e5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c5caf1e5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c5caf1e5
A Christmas Carol / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
A Christmas Carol / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Itâ€™s implied that Belleâ€™s daughter looks like a younger version of her.
A Christmas Carol / int_c5fe6c81	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c5fe6c81	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c5fe6c81
A Christmas Carol / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
A Christmas Carol / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Seeing how many of Scrooge's unpleasant memories happened at Christmas time, as shown in the Christmas Past sequence, it's little wonder he's so down on the holiday. It's implied he spurns his nephew because the lad reminds him of his dead sister.
A Christmas Carol / int_c868a42a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c868a42a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c868a42a
A Christmas Carol / int_c9e20e01	type	Unexpected Kindness
A Christmas Carol / int_c9e20e01	comment	Unexpected Kindness: After his Heelâ€“Face Turn, Scrooge trolls Bob Cratchit by making him think he's going to fire him, only to reveal he's actually going to raise his salary.
A Christmas Carol / int_c9e20e01	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_c9e20e01	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_c9e20e01
A Christmas Carol / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
A Christmas Carol / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Dickens names four of Bob Cratchit's children—Peter, Belinda, Martha, and of course Tim—but a younger son and daughter are mentioned but not named. Fred's wife also is not named.
A Christmas Carol / int_ca87e3ec	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_ca87e3ec	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_ca87e3ec
A Christmas Carol / int_ca9e3345	type	Temporal Mutability
A Christmas Carol / int_ca9e3345	comment	Temporal Mutability: Scrooge desperately asks the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, "Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be, only?" The Ghost does not answer; the closing narration confirms that Scrooge was able to change his destiny.
A Christmas Carol / int_ca9e3345	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_ca9e3345	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_ca9e3345
A Christmas Carol / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
A Christmas Carol / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, who is completely shrouded, his true form always just out of sight. It makes sense in that he's the embodiment of a man's blindness toward his own future. Erroneously expecting the Ghost of Christmas Present to come to his bedside on the second night at 1 o'clock, it's stated that nothing between a baby and a rhinoceros would have surprised Scrooge much. When nothing happens, he freaks out. (It turns out the Ghost was actually waiting for him in Scrooge's living room).
A Christmas Carol / int_cdfe12c3	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_cdfe12c3	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_cdfe12c3
A Christmas Carol / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
A Christmas Carol / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: Tiny Tim's illness is not necessarily fatal; it's just that the Cratchits are too poor to afford the treatment, which is why he dies in the alternate future. So when Scrooge has his change of heart and increases Bob's salary, Tim gets the treatment and doesn't succumb to his illness.
A Christmas Carol / int_d2aa7d09	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_d2aa7d09	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_d2aa7d09
A Christmas Carol / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
A Christmas Carol / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Scrooge's iconic "Humbug", sometimes prefaced with "Bah!"
A Christmas Carol / int_d308cbb0	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_d308cbb0	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_d308cbb0
A Christmas Carol / int_d3510138	type	Right on the Tick
A Christmas Carol / int_d3510138	comment	Right on the Tick: Subverted. The spirits are supposed to come on three consecutive nights, at specified times. They arrive at the specific time, but all the visitations somehow happen in one night.
A Christmas Carol / int_d3510138	featureApplicability	-0.3
A Christmas Carol / int_d3510138	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_d3510138
A Christmas Carol / int_d6d05fba	type	The Help Helping Themselves
A Christmas Carol / int_d6d05fba	comment	The Help Helping Themselves: The Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge that unless he mends his ways, not only will he die alone and unmourned, his servants will happily pawn his possessions, right down to the sheets off his deathbed. It's implied that they were also stealing from him during his life.
A Christmas Carol / int_d6d05fba	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_d6d05fba	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_d6d05fba
A Christmas Carol / int_d6e495b2	type	Undisclosed Funds
A Christmas Carol / int_d6e495b2	comment	Undisclosed Funds: When Scrooge encounters the Portly Gentleman on Christmas Day, he pledges a contribution to his charity by whispering an amount in his ear. We readers don't know how much he just donated, but it's sizable enough that the man is dumbfounded.
A Christmas Carol / int_d6e495b2	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_d6e495b2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_d6e495b2
A Christmas Carol / int_d7abaf48	type	One Crazy Night
A Christmas Carol / int_d7abaf48	comment	One Crazy Night: A lot happens to Scrooge between the moment when Marley appears to him and the moment he wakes up on Christmas Day. He's rather confused by this, but then assumes it happened that way because the ghosts arranged for it.
A Christmas Carol / int_d7abaf48	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_d7abaf48	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_d7abaf48
A Christmas Carol / int_dbab18ef	type	Morally Bankrupt Banker
A Christmas Carol / int_dbab18ef	comment	Morally Bankrupt Banker: Scrooge is an aversion of this trope. He's at least honest with people's money, and it's mentioned that he only goes after debts that he's honestly owed. But Scrooge acts like such an old miserly jerk that everyone presumes he's morally corrupt. Jacob Marley was this in life, to the point that he's condemned to be Walking the Earth for all eternity, literally weighed down by the lockboxes and ledgers he cultivated in life.
A Christmas Carol / int_dbab18ef	featureApplicability	-1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_dbab18ef	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_dbab18ef
A Christmas Carol / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
A Christmas Carol / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: The visit to the Cratchits' Christmas is a lesson in why thinking this way is so cruel. Scrooge had earlier claimed that the best thing the "surplus population" can do is die and stop sponging off society. Present gets Scrooge to see that the surplus is made of good, innocent people who can't be more productive because they've have been dealt a bad hand by people like him.
A Christmas Carol / int_dd082289	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_dd082289	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_dd082289
A Christmas Carol / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
A Christmas Carol / int_deb39de3	comment	Bad Future: The vision shown by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. At first this seems like the trope is Inverted: It's a bad future only for Scrooge, because his death is shown to make the world a happier place! But because Scrooge continued his miserly ways in this future, it means Cratchit still wasn't paid enough money to provide Tiny Tim the medical treatment he needed, and Tiny Tim dies. Even then, Bob Cratchit mentions that Scrooge's nephew Fred has offered to help him out with a good job, since Fred has just come into some good fortune — which we rapidly learn must be Scrooge's inheritance, as his only living relative.
A Christmas Carol / int_deb39de3	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_deb39de3	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_deb39de3
A Christmas Carol / int_dfb77c08	type	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation
A Christmas Carol / int_dfb77c08	comment	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: The book never specifies exactly what Scrooge's business is. He's referred to as being hard on his debtors, which implies that he's a moneylender. But then, a lot of Victorian businesses (particularly those catering to the rich) regularly served customers on credit, and would have had debtors. His business is also called a "counting house", which is an old British phrase corresponding to "accountant". On the other hand, it's mentioned that he's well known on "'Change", that is, the merchandise/stock exchange in London. And he did his apprenticeship with Fezziwig, who was apparently a wholesaler of unspecified goods.
A Christmas Carol / int_dfb77c08	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_dfb77c08	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_dfb77c08
A Christmas Carol / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
A Christmas Carol / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Jacob Marley died on Christmas Eve, and if Scrooge doesn't reform, so will he.
A Christmas Carol / int_e003c829	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e003c829	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e003c829
A Christmas Carol / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
A Christmas Carol / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: The visions of Christmases past show Scrooge's descent into miserliness, from being unwanted by his father to Scroogeâ€™s own Greed driving away the girl he loved.
A Christmas Carol / int_e0040f41	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e0040f41	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e0040f41
A Christmas Carol / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
A Christmas Carol / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Scrooge tells his nephew that celebrating Christmas is for fools at the beginning of the book.
A Christmas Carol / int_e0e8cce6	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e0e8cce6	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e0e8cce6
A Christmas Carol / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
A Christmas Carol / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Scrooge has a conversation with the ghost of Jacob Marley, where Marley informs Scrooge of just what awaits him if he keeps being such a crotchety old miser.
A Christmas Carol / int_e1fa8421	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e1fa8421	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e1fa8421
A Christmas Carol / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
A Christmas Carol / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Bob Cratchit is stunned to see the newly-reformed Scrooge after Scrooge's Heelâ€“Face Turn, to say the least. However, once Scrooge proves to be a man of his word and sincere in his reformation, it starts sticking far more.
A Christmas Carol / int_e83f211c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e83f211c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e83f211c
A Christmas Carol / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
A Christmas Carol / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Quite a bit, and not only for the social commentary. Dickens infused most of his own childhood into the Christmas Past story, particularly an extended discussion on the Arabian Nights and the importance of fantasy in childhood. Uniquely, the story would be much poorer without Dickens getting on board.
A Christmas Carol / int_e88e8a8f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e88e8a8f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e88e8a8f
A Christmas Carol / int_e98afc99	type	Opinion-Changing Dream
A Christmas Carol / int_e98afc99	comment	Opinion-Changing Dream: Averted. It admittedly follows a similar format (Scrooge is a mean person who hates Christmas and helping the needy, Scrooge goes to bed, Scrooge meets some ghosts, Scrooge gets out of bed in the morning, Scrooge's opinions have changed completely and he becomes a good person). But all available context clues indicate that Scrooge is fully awake when he meets the ghosts. This is altered in some adaptations, where his adventures really are All Just a Dream.
A Christmas Carol / int_e98afc99	featureApplicability	-1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e98afc99	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e98afc99
A Christmas Carol / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
A Christmas Carol / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: After witnessing the underworld dealings in the future, Scrooge asks the Ghost to show him some emotion associated with the recently-deceased man. The Ghost then shows him a young couple who are happy that the man in question is dead, as it gives them time to pay off their debts. Scrooge has to clarify that he wanted to see tenderness associated with death, leading to the Cratchit family mourning the death of Tiny Tim.
A Christmas Carol / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_e9e35e8f
A Christmas Carol / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
A Christmas Carol / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Scrooge was not born a horrible greedy person. It was his past experiences of losing a girlfriend, a sister, and a partner, and being sent from his family to boarding school on Christmas Day that helped make him who he is.
A Christmas Carol / int_eb2195d9	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_eb2195d9	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_eb2195d9
A Christmas Carol / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
A Christmas Carol / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: invokedScrooge at the start of the story, oh so much. Morphing into Jerkass Woobie as more of his background is revealed.
A Christmas Carol / int_eb8ec7c8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_eb8ec7c8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_eb8ec7c8
A Christmas Carol / int_ec71dc46	type	Wealth's in a Name
A Christmas Carol / int_ec71dc46	comment	Wealth's in a Name: An odd inversion. Scrooge became such a renowned rich miser out-of-universe that his name became a term for a rich miser.
A Christmas Carol / int_ec71dc46	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_ec71dc46	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_ec71dc46
A Christmas Carol / int_f174d8e8	type	Trying Not to Cry
A Christmas Carol / int_f174d8e8	comment	Trying Not to Cry: Mrs. Cratchit wants to show a strong face for her husband when he comes back from arranging Tim's burial and hides her tears by claiming that the color of the fabric she's sewing hurts her eyes.
A Christmas Carol / int_f174d8e8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_f174d8e8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_f174d8e8
A Christmas Carol / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
A Christmas Carol / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The Christmas Day feasts are described in as much mouth-watering detail as possible. And the Ghost of Christmas Present sits on a throne made of food.
A Christmas Carol / int_f23ad6de	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_f23ad6de	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_f23ad6de
A Christmas Carol / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
A Christmas Carol / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Possibly Creepy Twins, though it's never specified. The Ghost of Christmas Present keeps a silent, wraith-like boy and girl — Ignorance and Want, respectively — under his cloak, telling Scrooge that they are mankind's children, born of poverty.
A Christmas Carol / int_f3d5d15f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_f3d5d15f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_f3d5d15f
A Christmas Carol / int_f46fb603	type	Pungeon Master
A Christmas Carol / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: When Jacob Marley's ghost shows up, Scrooge tries to lighten the mood to mask his fears: When Marley mentions that his ghost has been wandering the earth, he is not amused by Scrooge's levity, and rattles his chains with a ghostly wail: Scrooge refers to Bob Cratchit as his "fifteen-bob-a-week" clerk ("bob" being another word for "shilling").
A Christmas Carol / int_f46fb603	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_f46fb603	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_f5dabfc6	type	Ghostly Gape
A Christmas Carol / int_f5dabfc6	comment	Ghostly Gape: Marley's ghost wears a bandage around his head to keep his jaw from hanging down, unhinged, and at one point takes it off in order to frighten Scrooge even more.
A Christmas Carol / int_f5dabfc6	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_f5dabfc6	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_f5dabfc6
A Christmas Carol / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
A Christmas Carol / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Scrooge vowing to change his ways and become a good man earns him a second chance at life, and it's so implied that he did manage to avoid the same fate the Jacob Marley did.
A Christmas Carol / int_f64a9cf7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_f64a9cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
A Christmas Carol / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Scrooge's fate in the visions of Christmas to come. No one cares that he's dead; some even celebrate it. And he's only put in a grave as a matter of formality.
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A Christmas Carol / int_f765e2d3	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
A Christmas Carol / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Briefly discussed between Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present, as Dickens wanted to criticize the (still-operating!) Lord's Day Observance Society's push to close down bakeries entirely on Sundays, which would subsequently deprive poor families a hot meal. The Ghost takes offense when Scrooge asks why he and his kind would advocate for such cruelty, saying that it's not Heaven that wants to do such cruelty, but people who are convinced of their own superiority and hoping to rub everyone else's nose in it.
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A Christmas Carol / int_f76842b1	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_f7cf9612	type	Neologism
A Christmas Carol / int_f7cf9612	comment	Neologism: The term "scrooge" has become slang for a miser, especially a bitter one.
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A Christmas Carol / int_f7cf9612	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Christmas Carol / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
A Christmas Carol / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: When the Ghost of Christmas Present is showing Scrooge his nephew Fred's Christmas party, there is this line of narration: "Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart..." Scrooge "had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle". By that, Dickens means that Scrooge did not have any future interaction or communication with ghosts after his reformation. Meanwhile, "Total Abstinence Principle" was a phrase commonly associated with teetotalism, i.e. never drinking any alcohol or "spirits". (Yes, Dickens is indulging in a pun).
A Christmas Carol / int_fa6bfde9	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_fa6bfde9	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_fa6bfde9
A Christmas Carol / int_fa75f3a6	type	Humans Are Good
A Christmas Carol / int_fa75f3a6	comment	Humans Are Good: It is Christmastime of course, so this is the time of year that gets the best out of everyone. Scrooge becomes a much better person after his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
A Christmas Carol / int_fa75f3a6	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_fa75f3a6	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_fa75f3a6
A Christmas Carol / int_fa9b0b5c	type	Informed Poverty
A Christmas Carol / int_fa9b0b5c	comment	Informed Poverty: Scrooge considers his nephew Fred to be "poor"; in reality Fred, while not wealthy, lives a comfortable middle-class life and makes at least enough to afford a live-in housemaid. This shows us how stingy Scrooge is.
A Christmas Carol / int_fa9b0b5c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Christmas Carol / int_fa9b0b5c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	A Christmas Carol / int_fa9b0b5c
A Christmas Carol / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
A Christmas Carol / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Quite a few. When the charity collectors come by asking Scrooge for donations, it takes an awfully long time for it to dawn on them that Scrooge isn't interested in donating anything. Even after he makes it quite clear that the only charity the poor need are prisons and workhouses, they insist: Despite Marley's ghost telling Scrooge he is being punished for his selfishness by being fettered in chains and traveling without rest forever, Scrooge argues he was a "good man of business". This causes Marley to scream in anguish and sarcastically reply that "mankind was [his] business"; that is, what Marley should have most concerned himself with when he lived.
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A Christmas Carol / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
A Christmas Carol / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: They can detect it in Scrooge, anyway.
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A Christmas Carol (2009)	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
MsScrooge	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
Scrooge (1951)	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Adaptational Badass / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Ain't Too Proud to Beg / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	All That Glitters / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Ambiguously Absent Parent / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_aeb84363
AnAmericanCarol	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	And You Were There / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Audio Adaptation / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Battle Rapping / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Gender Flip / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Ghostly Gape / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Glurge / int_aeb84363
GreatDickensChristmasFair	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Greek Chorus / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	HA HA HAâ€”No / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Haughty "Hmph" / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Hiding Behind Religion / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	His Name Is... / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Homage Derailment / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Honest Corporate Executive / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Human Jungle Gym / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	I Hate Past Me / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	I Have Just One Thing to Say / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Informed Poverty / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Intangible Time Travel / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	I've Come Too Far / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Kill the Poor / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Lame Comeback / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Last Disrespects / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Literary Mash-Ups / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Littlest Cancer Patient / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Loan Shark / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Lonely at the Top / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Lonely Funeral / int_aeb84363
LostChristmas	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Lyrical Shoehorn / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Magic Franchise Word / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Married to the Job / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Marry for Love / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Maternal Death? Blame the Child! / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Mistaken for Bad Vision / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Monochrome Apparition / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Morally Bankrupt Banker / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Mountain of Food / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Mushroom Samba / int_aeb84363
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A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Named After Somebody Famous / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Named by the Adaptation / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Narrative Profanity Filter / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Narrator All Along / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	No Party Like a Donner Party / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Nothing but Skin and Bones / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Novella / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Off to Boarding School / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Once Upon a Time / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	One Crazy Night / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Only Cares About Inheritance / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Only Friend / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Opinion-Changing Dream / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Our Ghosts Are Different / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Overpopulation Crisis / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Pajama-Clad Hero / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Pals with Jesus / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Parlor Games / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Perpetually Protean / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Proportional Aging / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Public Domain Character / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Redemption Quest / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Releasing from the Promise / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Right on the Tick / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Robbing the Dead / int_aeb84363
Ron Halder	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Saved by the Church Bell / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Scare 'Em Straight / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Self-Defeating Prophecy / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Senior Creep / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Short-Lived Organism / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Significant Double Casting / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Sinister Scraping Sound / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Snow Means Death / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Snow Means Love / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Soup Is Medicine / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Speak Ill of the Dead / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Spin-Off Cookbook / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Stopped Caring / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Sweet Polly Oliver / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Take Back Your Gift / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Terrible Ticking / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Baby of the Bunch / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Grim Reaper / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Heartless / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Help Helping Themselves / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The One That Got Away / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Punishment Is the Crime / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Scrooge / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Silent Bob / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Social Darwinist / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	"The Villain Sucks" Song / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Thermostat Tamper Tantrum / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	This Is Gonna Suck / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Thriving Ex-Crush / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Throwing Off the Disability / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Time-Passes Montage / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Time Travel Tales / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Title of the Dead / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Traced Artwork / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	True Neutral / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Truer to the Text / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Twisted Christmas / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Unable to Support a Wife / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Unexpected Kindness / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Victorian London / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Villain Protagonist / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Wealth's in a Name / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Westminster Chimes / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	What Year Is This? / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	White-and-Grey Morality / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Widow's Weeds / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Work Info Title / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Working Through the Cold / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Would Rather Suffer / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Yet Another Christmas Carol / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	seeAlso	A Christmas Carol
achristmascarol	sameAs	A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Flying Dutchman / int_aeb84363
A Christmas Carol	hasFeature	It Always Rains at Funerals / int_aeb84363

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