What was the fate of Marley in A Christmas Carol (and beyond)?
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In A Christmas Carol Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley. Poor Jacob is covered in chains and shackles and seems to be in a very sore state.
“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “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. Is its pattern strange to you?”
After his brief time with Scrooge we don't see him again. Is there any indication of his ultimate fate?
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In A Christmas Carol Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley. Poor Jacob is covered in chains and shackles and seems to be in a very sore state.
“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “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. Is its pattern strange to you?”
After his brief time with Scrooge we don't see him again. Is there any indication of his ultimate fate?
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Was it not implied he went to hell?
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@Wooden13 - If you can provide a quote that backs that up, you've got the makings of an excellent answer
– Valorum
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@Wooden13 - For the record, I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but I'd love you to prove otherwise
– Valorum
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@Paulie_D - I see a lot of weasel words; Inferred, implied, etc.
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@Paulie_D - Well, Christian mythos allows for more outcomes after death than a simple binary choice between Heaven and Hell
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In A Christmas Carol Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley. Poor Jacob is covered in chains and shackles and seems to be in a very sore state.
“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “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. Is its pattern strange to you?”
After his brief time with Scrooge we don't see him again. Is there any indication of his ultimate fate?
a-christmas-carol
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In A Christmas Carol Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley. Poor Jacob is covered in chains and shackles and seems to be in a very sore state.
“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “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. Is its pattern strange to you?”
After his brief time with Scrooge we don't see him again. Is there any indication of his ultimate fate?
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Was it not implied he went to hell?
– Wooden13
8 hours ago
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@Wooden13 - If you can provide a quote that backs that up, you've got the makings of an excellent answer
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Wooden13 - For the record, I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but I'd love you to prove otherwise
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Paulie_D - I see a lot of weasel words; Inferred, implied, etc.
– Valorum
8 hours ago
1
@Paulie_D - Well, Christian mythos allows for more outcomes after death than a simple binary choice between Heaven and Hell
– Valorum
8 hours ago
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Was it not implied he went to hell?
– Wooden13
8 hours ago
1
@Wooden13 - If you can provide a quote that backs that up, you've got the makings of an excellent answer
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Wooden13 - For the record, I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but I'd love you to prove otherwise
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Paulie_D - I see a lot of weasel words; Inferred, implied, etc.
– Valorum
8 hours ago
1
@Paulie_D - Well, Christian mythos allows for more outcomes after death than a simple binary choice between Heaven and Hell
– Valorum
8 hours ago
1
1
Was it not implied he went to hell?
– Wooden13
8 hours ago
Was it not implied he went to hell?
– Wooden13
8 hours ago
1
1
@Wooden13 - If you can provide a quote that backs that up, you've got the makings of an excellent answer
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Wooden13 - If you can provide a quote that backs that up, you've got the makings of an excellent answer
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Wooden13 - For the record, I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but I'd love you to prove otherwise
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Wooden13 - For the record, I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but I'd love you to prove otherwise
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Paulie_D - I see a lot of weasel words; Inferred, implied, etc.
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Paulie_D - I see a lot of weasel words; Inferred, implied, etc.
– Valorum
8 hours ago
1
1
@Paulie_D - Well, Christian mythos allows for more outcomes after death than a simple binary choice between Heaven and Hell
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Well, Christian mythos allows for more outcomes after death than a simple binary choice between Heaven and Hell
– Valorum
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His spirit is doomed to travel the earth to see, in death, what it missed in life.
There is no indication that there is anything that Marley can do so change this situation.
“It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide. And if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so, after death. It is doomed to wander through the world, oh woe is me!—and witness what it can no longer share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to Happiness!”
A Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost - Charles Dickens
Further...
“Seven years dead,” mused Scrooge. “And travelling all the time?”
“The whole time,” said the Ghost. “No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”
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His spirit is doomed to travel the earth to see, in death, what it missed in life.
There is no indication that there is anything that Marley can do so change this situation.
“It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide. And if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so, after death. It is doomed to wander through the world, oh woe is me!—and witness what it can no longer share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to Happiness!”
A Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost - Charles Dickens
Further...
“Seven years dead,” mused Scrooge. “And travelling all the time?”
“The whole time,” said the Ghost. “No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”
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His spirit is doomed to travel the earth to see, in death, what it missed in life.
There is no indication that there is anything that Marley can do so change this situation.
“It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide. And if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so, after death. It is doomed to wander through the world, oh woe is me!—and witness what it can no longer share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to Happiness!”
A Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost - Charles Dickens
Further...
“Seven years dead,” mused Scrooge. “And travelling all the time?”
“The whole time,” said the Ghost. “No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”
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His spirit is doomed to travel the earth to see, in death, what it missed in life.
There is no indication that there is anything that Marley can do so change this situation.
“It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide. And if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so, after death. It is doomed to wander through the world, oh woe is me!—and witness what it can no longer share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to Happiness!”
A Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost - Charles Dickens
Further...
“Seven years dead,” mused Scrooge. “And travelling all the time?”
“The whole time,” said the Ghost. “No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”
answered 8 hours ago
Paulie_D
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His spirit is doomed to travel the earth to see, in death, what it missed in life.
There is no indication that there is anything that Marley can do so change this situation.
“It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide. And if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so, after death. It is doomed to wander through the world, oh woe is me!—and witness what it can no longer share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to Happiness!”
A Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost - Charles Dickens
Further...
“Seven years dead,” mused Scrooge. “And travelling all the time?”
“The whole time,” said the Ghost. “No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”
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Was it not implied he went to hell?
– Wooden13
8 hours ago
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@Wooden13 - If you can provide a quote that backs that up, you've got the makings of an excellent answer
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Wooden13 - For the record, I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but I'd love you to prove otherwise
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Paulie_D - I see a lot of weasel words; Inferred, implied, etc.
– Valorum
8 hours ago
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@Paulie_D - Well, Christian mythos allows for more outcomes after death than a simple binary choice between Heaven and Hell
– Valorum
8 hours ago