marley was scrooge's business partner.
marley was scrooge's business partner.
who is marley what is marley's relationship to scrooge?
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jacob marley is a fictional character who appears in charles dickens's 1843 novella "a christmas carol". he is ebenezer scrooge’s deceased business partner, now a chained and tormented ghost, doomed to wander the earth forever as punishment for his greed and selfishness when he was alive. marley roams restlessly, witnessing the hardships others suffer and lamenting that he has forever lost his chance to help them. marley arranges for the three spirits to visit scrooge and gives his friend an opportunity for redemption, which marley tells him was "...a chance and hope of my procuring."
jacob marley
at one in the morning, the spirit of christmas past (michael dolan) arrives to show scrooge scenes from his past. a young scrooge (george cole) is alone at school, unwanted by his father ever since his mother died in childbirth. his sister fan (carol marsh) arrives to take him home, claiming their father has changed. next, the spirit shows scrooge the annual christmas party thrown by his fondly remembered employer, old fezziwig (roddy hughes). scrooge shows his first signs of change as he realises fezziwig did not have to spend much money to bring happiness to his staff. scrooge then witnesses his proposal to his girlfriend, alice (rona anderson). he is reminded that the lure of money from the sarcastic mr. jorkin (jack warner) seduced him to abandon his loyalty to fezziwig and to regard the world as a "hard and cruel place." scrooge relives the death of fan; as she lay dying, he angrily walked away and refused to look after her son, fred. the older scrooge is overcome, and begs for her forgiveness. taking a clerk job with jorkin, young scrooge befriends a young jacob marley (patrick macnee). scrooge and marley eventually buy out fezziwig's business and replace the sign bearing his name with one showing their own names. alice breaks off her engagement to scrooge, feeling that love of money has replaced his love for her. years later, scrooge and marley are board members of the amalgamated mercantile society as they offer to rescue the company from bankruptcy after jorkin embezzles the company's funds, taking control of the company in the process. on christmas eve, 1836, marley lay dying, but scrooge refused to visit his only friend during business hours. when scrooge finally arrives, marley, aware he will face eternal punishment for his avarice, tries to warn scrooge before he dies. the spirit reproaches scrooge for taking marley's money and house.
scrooge (1951 film)