The Classics discussion

The is for discussing "The First of the Three Spirits".

...I really loved the description of the children who were supposed to be 40 acting as one, but instead were each one acting as 40, and how no one minded that. I always think of the past as being a time when children were supposed to be "seen but not heard," so it emphasized their warmth and joy in each other.

I liked that sentiment as well. The movies and the play have Scrooge meeting Belle at the Christmas Party, and I like that we only see the end of their relationship and then afterwards that she is happy and with a loving husband.

I loved the creepy sentence where a hand draws aside the bed curtains!

The description for the first spirit is much more interesting than the versions I've seen in movies. I didn't know what the cap meant though. Scrooge had made the cap and it dimmed the top of the spirits head. I thought it might have some symbolic meaning.

And I though a Welsh wig was a wig but in fact it's a hat.

With the line "a positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves", all I could think was flashlight calves.

I read the cap to mean a candle snuffer of sorts, that we are the ones to dim its light or snuff it out completely as when Scrooge asks it to put its hat on.