In Part I, we discussed Jacob Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Past. Now without further ado, let us pick up where we left of, with the next legally challenged ghost to visit Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas present.

Ghost No. 2 made himself at home, transforming Scrooge’s mean quarters into an altar of Christmas joy without so much as a by your leave from the frightened homeowner. Dickens describes holly, ivy, and mistletoe lit by a roaring fire. Roasted turkeys, pigs, mince pies, fruit, and cakes are mounded to make a mouth-watering feast for all comers. Too bad Christmas Present let himself in and redecorated without permission.

Ghost of Christmas Future: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (IIED) When it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.

Now things get really scary for old Scrooge. He has been kidnapped, dragged all over Christendom, and been trespassed upon during his ordeals, but things are about to get a whole lot worse. This fearful specter will show Scrooge his own lonely death and the piteous one of poor Tiny Tim, to boot. Scrooge ends this sojourn by a new grave – what could be more calculated to cause severe emotional trauma in a victim?

Keep Christmas in Your Heart … and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.

An argument can well be made for some ghostly law-breaking to teach Scrooge the lessons he needed to learn to become a better man. Scrooge learned well that wealth may be costly, and that charity can lead to an abundance of life. We should all be so lucky as to have our illegal or even just naughty deeds end in forgiveness, redemption, and happily ever after.

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