PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
Scrooge expresses fear and uncertainty about the future, but also hope to change and become a better man, indicating a suspected claim of personal transformation.
SCROOGE
'Ghost of the Future!' he exclaimed, 'I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear your company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?'