In our last stave of "A Christmas Carol" Scrooge wakes up in his bed and he feels like a whole new man. He feels inspired and ready to change. The spirits have all used different emotions to fully and effectively change Scrooge. Scrooge is joyful and is full of the Christmas spirit, he skips town and tells a boy to go get the largest turkey for the Cratchits and if he come back in 5 minutes he gets half a crown. This is one of the first people to be affected by Scrooge's change, along with multiple people on the street who said good morning to him thanks to his cheery attitude opposed to his usual grumpy one. He visite Fred, which probably makes him very happy that he finally accepted an offer to dinner. He tells Bob when he is late that it needs to stop and Bob says its only once a year. Then Scrooge says he is raising his pay and Bob thanks him. Tiny Tim is also affected and he lives! Scrooge is like a second father to him, meaning that he cares for him a lot.
Without one of the spirits the changes would've only been temporary or not happened at all. For example of the last spirit had only shown fear and no hope I think that Scrooge would have not changed. He would've seen his future and know what it will be like but, he wouldn't have seen any point in changing if that what he's going to end with after all. I think that fear was overall the most important emotion that the spirits use but, at the same time, without any of the other emotions fear becomes powerless ad can't help Scrooge to change anything but to fear his fate. This is why it is important to have hope, to show Scrooge that if he changes he can also change his future and won't be stuck with such a terrible fate. The first step of scrooge admitting he needs to change something is also very important because it is the first step to change. The emotions the other two spirits who showed him regret and shame, these two are also important but without fear they would've only made temporary changes.
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