The three
spirits each represent the message they are trying to send. Each ghost is a visualfor its
time. Marley, for example, is fettered. The chains are the ones he forged in life, by not
looking out for mankind.
I wear the chain I forged in
life€¦. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my
own free will I wore it€¦.(Stave 1, p. 14)
The Ghost of
Christmas past is neither young nor old, demonstrating the fleeting and changing nature of
memories.
It was a strange figurelike a child: yet not
so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the
appearance of having receded...
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