This is a good article by David Sims. However, David-Sims seems to have skipped on something much deeper, like The Sims.
Ares was no longer just a ghost in the machine. He became an entity in the "real world."
In the 1840s Charles_Dickens wanted to write an interdimensional story about a cantankerous old man interacting with various ghosts. A_Christmas_Carol deals the past, the present a possibly dark future resulting in a reconciliation of his perspective of life.