The Scrooge Reformation

After hearing his nephew�s cheerful Christmas greeting in the opening of Charles Dickens�s classic, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge dismally responses, �Bah Humbug!� He seems to use his unfriendliness and miserliness as nourishment as he is consumed with little else. This attitude is rare in this book�s setting, Victorian England.   Scrooge, however, undergoes a great improvement after which he is a compassionate, deferential citizen. You doubtlessly will wonder how such a visit could so positively change him. Scrooge needed to have consequences for his actions such as he observed with the Ghost of Christmas Future to restructure his mindset. It takes severe measures to correct such a malevolent being.
Scrooge is an offending and literally careless person at A Christmas Carol�s commencement. He is unaware of the suffering of the unfortunate and the poor and is tightfisted when it comes to aiding them. He refuses to consider the charity gentlemen�s donation request. Grimly, he yells at his nephew for falling in love. Scrooge is a typical miser; he uses only a few pieces of coal for his fire, less for his clerk�s fire, and pays him little more than the price of the coals. In his ignorance, he deems Christmas as a humbug and is unacquainted with the joy of kindness.
After his visit with the ghosts, Scrooge is a reformed man with a new disposition on life. Afterwards, he generously buys the Crachits the gigantic prize turkey and pays the strolling boy half a crown for fetching it. He repeatedly compliments most everyone he sees. Scrooge calls the promenading boy both �intelligent� and �my fine fellow.�    Most world shattering for Scrooge is that he regards everyone�s greetings as �the blithest sounds he had ever heard.� He gratefully praises �Heaven and the Christmas Time� as well as the ghost of Jacob Marley for saving him from Marley�s fate. Feeling obliged, he donates an innumerable sum of money to the charity gentlemen.
Human nature is based on survival; therefore, selfishness is necessary and natural. Occasionally, people allow their natural desires to overpower them. In this occasion, Scrooge clung to his original need for success, money. Even after he was surrounded by and in no need of money, Scrooge continued amass his fortune.   When taken to recollect his past character, Scrooge remembered himself perfectly and he likewise was probably discontent that his life had not turned out differently; that, however, did not reform him. Neither did his sadness for Tiny Tim�s miserable life nor other people�s views of him fully alter his evil mindset. It took the harsh penalties for his faulty performance revealed to him by the Ghost of Christmas Future to do the job. He saw that no one cared about him or his death besides his debtors; despicable scavengers sold his last possessions to a pawnshop.   As he kneels at his future grave and cries in despair, he luckily and instantly travels to his own time and his own bed. Gratefully he exclaims, �I will not shut out the lessons that they (the ghosts) teach.� Scrooge is a selfish person and he requires selfish reasoning to reform. He needs to see what he is doomed to if he continues to ignore warnings to reinvent himself as an overall good person.
The Scrooge Reformation was triggered by Scrooge�s vision of the shadows of what will be if Scrooge refuses to reform. Showing him the past and present was not enough; he needed consequences. Although in reality it seems unlikely that a man could be so changed by such a visit, Scrooge�s life was converted into a blissful, pleasant being. He amended his spirit and disposition, was kind to those with whom he interacted, and viewed humanity�s cheerfulness as a virtuous approach. Scrooge lived (for his lifetime�s remainder) and died a happy man.