Mr. Fezziwig
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Old Fezziwig is a character from the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol created by Charles Dickens to provide contrast with Ebenezer Scrooge's attitudes towards business ethics. Scrooge was apprenticed under Fezziwig. Despite this, the older Scrooge seems to be the very antithesis of Mr. Fezziwig in appearance, actions, and characterisation. Mr. Fezziwig is portrayed as a jovial, anachronistic man with a large Welsh Wig.[1]
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Old Fezziwig | |
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A Christmas Carol character | |
First appearance | A Christmas Carol 1843 |
Created by | Charles Dickens |
Portrayed by | Forrester Harvey Roddy Hughes Dick Elliott Bryan Herbert Laurence Naismith Timothy Bateson Pui Fan Lee Fozzie Bear (Frank Oz) Ian McNeice Brian Bedford Bob Hoskins Luca Mantle James Cosmo Riley Locke |
In-universe information | |
Occupation | Money lender |
Family | The Fezziwigs |
Nationality | English |
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In Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to revisit his youthful days in Fezziwig's world located at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens uses Fezziwig to represent communal values and a way of life quickly swept away in the economic turmoil of the early nineteenth century.[2][3]