SUPERNATURAL INFLUENCE
The Ghost is described as exerting a supernatural influence over Scrooge, showing him visions of his past and causing emotional reactions. Scrooge attempts to resist and extinguish the Ghost's light, but is unable to do so completely.
GHOST
'I told you these were shadows of the things that have been,' said the Ghost. 'That they are what they are do not blame me!' ... In the struggle, if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost with no visible resistance on its own part was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head. ... The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form; but though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light, which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground.