Jacob Marley
Jacob Marley is the ghost who visits Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's *A Christmas Carol*, warning his former business partner to change his miserly ways.
Marley appears wrapped in chains he "forged in life," representing the burden of his greed.
The name evokes cautionary hauntings or belated moral reckoning: Don't end up like Jacob Marley.
Linked metal restraints
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
haunting · visitation · manifestation · ethereal · incorporeal · transparent · rattling · moaning
Linked metal restraints
- cashboxesLockable money storage containers
- ledgersFormal accounting records
- padlocksPortable keyed fasteners
- keysLock-operating instruments
purses · deeds · moneylender · Scrooge · partnership · counting-house · avarice · hoarding
Foretelling of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- omenProphetic indicator
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
cautionary · admonition · visitation · messenger · portent · foreshadowing · doom · fate
Compensation for wrongdoing
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- regretSorrow over past actions
remorse · repentance · transformation · deliverance · intercession · mercy · grace · forgiveness
chains
Linked metal restraints
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
spirit · haunting · visitation · manifestation · ethereal · incorporeal · transparent · rattling · moaning · doorknocker
chains
Linked metal restraints
- cashboxesLockable money storage containers
- ledgersFormal accounting records
- padlocksPortable keyed fasteners
keys · purses · deeds · moneylender · Scrooge · partnership · counting-house · avarice · hoarding · miserliness
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- omenProphetic indicator
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
premonition · cautionary · admonition · visitation · messenger · portent · foreshadowing · doom · fate · herald
atonement
Compensation for wrongdoing
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
regret · remorse · repentance · transformation · deliverance · intercession · mercy · grace · forgiveness · amendment
- A Christmas CarolEbenezer Scrooge, Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, Ghost of Christmas Past
- Fictional GhostsCasper, Slimer, Moaning Myrtle, Nearly Headless Nick, Ghost of Christmas Past
Jacob Marleyangel
Divine winged messenger
Tiny Tim · Bob Cratchit · guardian angel · saint · Ghost of Christmas Past
Jacob MarleyTiny Tim
Sickly Victorian street urchin
Bob Cratchit · Belle · Fred · Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come