Overall, the Ghost is trying to be helpful, even if it means being severe with the truth. The Ghost appears to have a subdued playful side, most likely representing one's youth, but is full of aged wisdom, representing those in their autumn years. While not as boastful or frightening as their two ghostly compatriots, the Ghost is not afraid to hit Scrooge with the harsh truth about his past and make him realize his fall from grace. In most adaptations, the Ghost of Christmas Past is depicted as being very soft-spoken and honest. He also carries an umbrella that imbues him with the power to time travel. The DuckTales version draws inspiration from Jiminy Cricket's appearance in Mickey's Christmas Carol and is a small green cricket with a blue waistcoat, white undershirt and red tie. Their face is that of an androgynous pale-faced child with long wavy red hair and large blue eyes. They resemble a small child with white wispy robes and a hood and appear to lack any feet whatsoever. The Muppet Christmas Carol version switches the candle motif for a more ethereal ghost-like appearance. Their candle wax body produces two arms that resemble long sleeved robes and, just like the original novel, carries an extinguisher that is only slightly as big as them. They appear as a literal floating candle person with the bottom half disappearing into nothingness and their head essentially floating above their body as a lit flame. The 2009 version has been the most direct about their appearance. Most versions retain the appearance of a being with light and candle motif, but is usually the only ghost to have the most radically diverse depictions. And in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again distinct and clear as ever.” ― A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.Įven this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. The arms were very long and muscular the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. “ It was a strange figure-like 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 from the view, and being diminished to a child’s proportions.
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