A Christmas Carol Vs. Macbeth

“Humbug!” My favorite ghost story is A Christmas Carol. Everyone knows about Ebenezer Scrooge, and how he is a mean old cheap man who does not enjoy Christmas. He is visited by three ghosts because of his behavior. Similar to Macbeth when he is visited by Banquo’s ghost Ebenezer Scrooge is shocked and a little worried about seeing the ghosts. Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. The coincidence between Ebenezer Scrooge and Macbeth is oddly similar; they are both obsessed with materialistic things. Ebenezer Scrooge is obsessed with money and it causes him to lose a woman who left him because of his addiction to money. Macbeth is similar to Ebenezer because of his obsession with power and being in control of people. Ebenezer and Macbeth also have a breaking point where they show that they are both humans, when Macbeth murdered Duncan he became panicked and it showed that he had emotions, as well as Ebenezer when he saw that he lost that woman he cried. The ghosts of A Christmas Carol and the ghost of Banquo are similar because all of the ghosts made the people they haunted realize something and somehow change them as a person or their behavior at the time.