Juxtaposition of Light and Dark Motifs to Influential Characters The best-seller, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, contrasts the light and dark era surrounding the French Revolution and the citizens involved. The occurrences of renouncement influence lives within France and England; negatively and positively. Lucie Manette shines a positive light on the circumstances she is involved in. She ultimately creates a new life for herself. Jarvis Lorry aids Miss. Manette along the journey of her new, vivid life. Although in the presence of auroral beings, the shadows find their way in. Sydney Carton is similar in that manner. His life has been nothing but meaningless drinking and despair, until Lucie enlivens his life. Manette had been hidden from the ray of life due to wrongful imprisonment of eighteen years. Lorry introduces him to life again where he thrives with vitality. Madame Defarge’s beclouded heart is set on obstructing those who affect bliss in anyway. Some are here to shed light on the importance of life, some characters live to cast a shadow. …show more content…
Throughout the book her luminosity is matched with commendable outcomes, such as Dr. Manette being “recalled to life”. Lucie “was a wife and a mother” to Charles Darnay and two children. Her lightheartedness brings ease to the lives around her during this time of nefarious behavior. Although she reflects enlightenment, the state of which she lives is not congruent: “ Miss Manette’s apartment...was a large, dark room, furnished in a funereal manner with black horsehair, and loaded with heavy dark tables.” Tenebrous material and experiences surround her, yet her existence is