@JR19759 said:
Sorry for turning your thread into an argument Weilyn.
How dare you have an intellectual discussion of literature in my thread!? Shame on you, you naughty British people!
Seriously though, I hold Dickens and Shakespeare in pretty much as high regard, but on different merits. Dickens created great stories with amazingly well constructed characters, but his prose is, in my opinion, fairly basic. Shakespeare, on the other hand, was a brilliant artist when it came to slapping the words together, but his stories aren’t really anything special.
Now, the reason I love Scrooge so much is because his personality doesn’t really change from the beginning to the end of the novel. (Yes, I know his change is the whole point of the book, just go with me on this one.) All to often in stories when a character changes from “evil” to “good” their entire personality changes. The despicable monster learns the value of friendship, or some shit, and suddenly wants to hug everybody while puking rainbows and strawberry icecream.
Scrooge, on the other hand, start out as a sardonic dickish cynic, and at the end he still is a sardonic dickish cynic – just look at how he tries to trick Cratchit into believing he is going to fire him. Scrooge himself doesn’t change a bit, but the way he views the world changes immensely, and that’s really all that matters.
He’s still a prick, but he’s a sympathetic prick.
Huh… I hope that made any kind of sense, I’m not sure it did…
Anyway, glad you like the picture, thank you for your comments 
@TheSoupster said:
As for the Scrooge, picture, weilyn, it looks amazing. Like other people have said, you’ve really nailed the expression on his face. He looks haunted…
Thank you! I often struggle with faces, but this one I think turned out pretty good.
