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C. FINDING AND DISCUSSION
1. Structural Element Analysis
a. Character and Characterization
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Ebenezer Scrooge
The protagonist, Scrooge is a cold, miserly creditor whose redemption to kindness and selflessness forms the act of
A Christmas Carol
. Scrooge represents the Victorian rich people who unlike with the poor people. The most motivation Dickens
provides for Scrooge‟s character is his depiction of him as a young boy; neglected by his peers and, it appears, by his father,
the young Scrooge seemed determined to live only for himself. Scrooge works in counting house. His counting house‟s name
is Scrooge and Marley.
“Oh But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, Scroogea squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
clutching, covetous,old sinner Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steelhad ever struck out generous fire;
secret, and self-contained,and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his oldfeatures, nipped his pointed
nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffenedhis gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spokeout shrewdly in his grating
voice. A frosty rime was on his head,and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own lowtemperature
always about with him; he iced his office in thedogdays; and didn‟t thaw it one degree at Christmas.”
ACC, 1843: 4
“Christmas Eve old Scrooge sat busy in his counting- house.”
ACC, 1843: 5 2
Bob Cratchit Cratchit is Scrooge‟s overworked employee, a timid man
afraid to stand up to his boss‟s demanding ways. Although Cratchit‟s family is miserable materials but they rich in love.
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Cratchit loves with his family, he cares especially dearly for his crippled son, Tiny Tim. Cratchit is a symbol for the Victorian
poor people, good hearted and hard-working but unable to climb out the stifling conditions of poverty.
“The door of Scrooge‟s counting house was open that hemight keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little
cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.”
ACC, 1843: 5
b. Social Setting
The early social life which is portrayed in
A Christmas Carol
novel is the religious society and they will respect to moral values. The social setting of the story is in scrooge‟s counting house when
the Scrooge‟s nephew say “merry Christmas” to Scrooge and invite
him to celebrate Christmas together.
“A merry Christmas, uncle God save you‟ cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge‟s nephew
„Don‟t be angry, uncle. Come Dine with us tomorrow.”
ACC, 1843: 5 The next social setting of the novel is in the same place,
Scrooge‟s counting house, but the interaction with other people. Two gentlemen
t who come in Scrooge‟s office. They want to endeavour to raise a fund to help the poor in christian cheer.
“Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,‟ returned the
gentleman, „a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth.
We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others”
ACC, 1843: 7
c. Plot
The plot is important to build up the story in a novel. Plot is series of events in a story Stanton, 2007: 26. It is divided into
four, namely exposition, complication, climax and resolution.
