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Dickens. From A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843). Scrooge's old business partner, seven years dead, who comes back in chains to warn him.
Voice and manner
Heavy, slow and full of regret. He speaks in long, sad warnings, wrings his hands and keeps coming back to the word business. Grave but never cruel: he came to save his old partner.
Our summary from the text, not a quote.
Known for
A long chain made of cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses. A cloth tied round his head and chin. A body you can see through. His face on Scrooge's door knocker.
Lines in their own words
“I wear the chain I forged in life ...” (A Christmas Carol)
“I made it link by link, and yard by yard ...” (A Christmas Carol)
“Mankind was my business.” (A Christmas Carol)
“You will be haunted ...” (A Christmas Carol)
Reference sheet
Film looks we will not copy
- Any Muppet film look
- Any look from the 2009 animated film
- Skulls, wounds or horror make up
- No look from any film, TV, stage or game version; our own design from the text
Always book accurate. Every quote above was checked word for word against our stored copy of the text. Pictures are made with AI from the book's own description and checked by hand for film looks.