Charles Dickens' stories

Jacob Marley is Scrooge's (dead) companion. Marley tells Scrooge that he must improve his life to avoid ending up as a chained ghost like Marley. When you hear the bell ringing, go to the sound. You will see the ghost of Jacob Marley.

Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Yet To Come. The Ghost of Christmas Past arrives first, then the Ghost of Christmas Present, but it is the Ghost of Christmas Future that really frightens Scrooge.

Tiny Tim (Little Tim) is the crippled son of Mr. Bob Cratchitt, a poor clerk in Scrooge's office. Tim is sickly, and in the third Ghost's dream, Tiny Tim is dead. He died because his parents had no money to buy food or coal for heating. Sometimes you see Tiny Tim sitting on his father's shoulder, not to enjoy the view, but because he has no energy left to hobble on! Tiny Tim ends the story with the legendary words: God bless us, every one!

Toby 'Trotty' Veck is a poor messenger of messages and small parcels, who sinks into the misery of everyday life on New Year's Eve. The ghosts of the church bells show him a terrible future. When Toby wakes up on New Year's Day, everything fortunately turns out to be a dream and Toby can celebrate his daughter's wedding as a happy man.

As David Dora Spenlow When he sees her for the first time, he immediately falls in love. They marry, but Dora is incapable of running a household. Everyone adores Dora, but she remains a childlike woman. She cannot live up to all expectations, fades away, and dies young.

Betsy Trotwood is David Copperfield's great-aunt, a tall, stately woman. When David was born, she was so bewildered that she disappeared from his life for a long time. Later, however, she became increasingly involved in his upbringing.

Uriah Heep is Wickfield's assistant and later partner. Uriah is a hypocrite, a cunning and suspicious man. He twists the situation so that he marries Agnes, Wickfield's daughter. Uriah completely plunders the poor and elderly Wickfield, is exposed by Micawber, and is sent to the New World (Australia) as a prisoner.

Micawber For a while, he's David Copperfield's landlord, the very picture of kindness, but with a hole in his pocket. He optimistically moves from one job to the next. He (and his large, friendly family) are nearly destroyed by his many debts when he exposes Uriah Heep. His debts are paid, and Micawber and his family leave for Australia, where they become respected and well-liked residents of Middlebay.

Peggotty is Copperfield's maid and nursemaid. After David's mother dies, Peggotty marries Barkis. She continues to play an important role in David Copperfield's life.

Samuel Pickwick is the eccentric, slightly overweight, gullible, but very likable protagonist of this story. Pickwick is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club. Pickwick, along with Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, experiences many adventures. Sam Weller is Samuel Pickwick's loyal (and wise) servant.

Pip As a boy, one day he gives food to the escaped convict Magwitch, who later becomes his benefactor. Pip assumes that his benefactor is a wealthy local woman, Miss Havisham. Pip falls in love with the arrogant Estelle, Miss Havisham's adopted child, but Estelle finds Pip too little. As a young man, of whom much is expected, Pip goes to London, he studies and ends up in a completely different world. Magwitch risks his own life back to England to look for Pip, he has made his fortune in the New World.

When Pip finds out that Magwitch As his benefactor, he does everything he can to keep Magwitch out of the police's hands. Pip tries to smuggle Magwitch out of the country, but his plan fails, and Magwitch dies in a hospital. Pip, penniless and no longer a man of high expectations, returns home and has to work for his money.

Miss Havisham is a rich eccentric old lady who was once about to get married. On her wedding day she found out that the marriage was not going to happen, the groom backed out. From that moment on she spends her days in her wedding dress and adopts girls whom she teaches to break the hearts of boys. She sees Pip as one of her victims. Miss Havisham just sits there among all her silver: bitter and unhappy.

Nicholas experiences many adventures and at the end of the story he gets married.

Smike Nicholas follows in her footsteps everywhere, almost like a faithful dog. Ultimately, he dies young from a combination of heartbreak for Kate and years of neglect. Only after his death is it revealed that he is the son of Nicholas's uncle, Ralph.

Squeers is the villain of the story, the owner of the boys' home where Smike was mistreated all those years.

Mr Alfred Mantalini. Mr. Mantalini's real name is Muntle, a smooth-talking scoundrel. He changes his name to Mantalini because it sounds more refined. He spends a lot of money, money he extorts from his wife with sweet talk, until there's nothing left and he ends up in jail.

Mrs. Mantalini is a vain, somewhat older woman. As the employer of the sewing workshop, she's very strict with the staff, but as a married woman, she's too weak to tolerate her husband's sweet talk. The couple falls into the hands of Ralph Nickleby, Nicholas's scheming uncle. Destitute and bitter about her husband's actions, she sells the workshop to Kate.

Mrs. Petowker is an actress without talent, though she herself thinks quite differently. A "friend" of Mrs. Kenwigs and (formerly) married to Lillyvick, but when she quickly grows tired of him, she walks out on him.

Mrs. Kenwigs belongs to the lower middle class of London and is considered a good, well-behaved person. She hires Nicholas to teach her three eldest daughters French. Mrs. Kenwigs finds three glasses of malt ale a day barely enough to comfort her in her grief over her Uncle Lillyvick's proposed marriage to Henrietta Petowker. Eventually, Uncle returns to the family, and his money goes to the Kenwigs children. A glove hangs on one of the doors in the street. In Dickens's time, it was a sign of "the highest civilization" to cover the door knocker with a glove, to indicate that the lady of the house was in labor. There was no need to talk about it like that. Mrs. Kenwigs is, in fact, giving birth (to a son!).

Lady Dedlock is a proud lady with a big secret. She is married to Lord Leicester Dedlock (a proud man). Lady Dedlock is a bit sickly and lives alternately in London and in Chesney Wold in the countryside. She dies when she flees from her secret.

Mrs. Sarah Gamp is a character from the book Martin Chuzzlewit. She's a midwife/nurse who prioritizes self-care above all else. The people who hired her often get the short end of the stick. Mrs. Gamp is a portly woman with a red nose from drinking. She behaves like the Duchess of the Dump. The wisdom she spouts is legendary, but it's never accurate! It's just old wives' tales!

Oliver Twist Oliver is born in a workhouse. His mother is an unknown wanderer and dies at birth, his father already dead. Oliver is expelled from the workhouse for daring to ask for more food. He then becomes the unfortunate apprentice of a gravedigger and eventually ends up in London amidst a world of pickpockets, thieves, and fences. After many adventures, Oliver is tracked down by someone who knows more about his origins. Evil is punished, and, all's well that ends well, Oliver is adopted by the kind and wealthy Mr. Brownlow. You'll encounter Oliver and his friends singing songs from the musical Oliver. Watch your bags, they're thieves after all!

Fagin is the head of the gang Oliver falls in with, a receiver and instigator of numerous crimes in Victorian London. Fagin has a real villainous appearance, mean and cunning.

Jack Dawkins (nicknamed "Artful Dodger") is one of the most promising thieves in Fagin's gang. He introduced Oliver to the gang and is, in his own way, a friend to Oliver. He is captured and banished to the New World (Australia, where many thieves and murderers were sent in the nineteenth century). 

Bill sikes is a professional thief, a younger version of Fagin. He meets a bad end when he is pursued by the police. Nancy is also a member of Fagin's thieves' club and Bill's girlfriend. Nancy tries to help Oliver escape, but Fagin prevents her and has her murdered by Bill Sikes. Mr. Bumble is the "Father" of the workhouse. A stern, mean man who considers himself perfectly righteous. Mrs. Bumble is the "Mother" of the workhouse and, like her husband, a vicious person. Sowerberry, the gravedigger, is Oliver's tutor. He's not the most evil, but after a fight between Oliver and another servant, Oliver is forced out.

Little (Amy) Dorrit Born in prison, Amy is the only member of the Dorrit family with any self-esteem. She works as a seamstress for Mrs. Clennam, a kindhearted woman who not only cares for her father in prison, but also contributes to the education of her brother and sister and supports Clennam when he is imprisoned.

Fanny Dorrit is Amy's older sister. Fanny is conceited, frivolous, and heartless. Thanks to Amy's efforts, Fanny becomes a ballerina. Fanny is also a poor mother, and Amy is left to raise her neglected children.

Edward (”Tip”) Dorrit As a young child, Edward suffered greatly from life in prison. When any prosperity came to the family, he couldn't cope. When the family fell into poverty again, Edward completely lost himself in drink.

William Dorrit is the patriarch of the family. He serves 25 years in Marshalsea, a prison, because he can't pay his debts (Dickens' father was actually in this prison, also for debt!). William is a man of rather weak character and constitution. When some wealth arrives, in the form of an inheritance, William acts as if he possesses much more. He leaves prison in splendor.

Little Nell – Nellie Trent is the very embodiment of goodness, an angel with exemplary character. Grandfather is a gambler. He's trying to win a fortune playing cards to secure his dear granddaughter's future. Daniel Quilp is the devilish creditor. He'll do anything to get his money back and take revenge on Grandfather. Quilp finds the loss of face almost worse than losing his money. Kitt Nubbles is the shop boy at The Old Curiosity Shop and a loyal companion to Little Nell. Codlin & Short are the proud owners of the puppet theater. Mrs. Jarley is the director of a traveling wax museum.