Ghost of Christmas Past

Question 1

Shows how the our past self if the younger but also older you. The past is ambiguous.

Answer 1

Like a child: yet not so like a child as an old man

Question 2

The Ghost of Christmas Past rebuking Scrooge’s attempt to put it and his past out.

Answer 2

What! Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?

Question 3

The ghost reminds Scrooge that the past cannot be changed and that it is not responsible for what he has done.

Answer 3

I told you these were shadows of things that have been. That they are what they are, do not blame me!