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Manette Vs Carton

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The French Revolution was a bloody revolution during which the king, queen and the aristocracy class in all of France was rounded up and executed at the guillotine, a new device made for painless executions. The novel “A Tale of Two Cities” written by Charles Dickens revolves around the French revolution and how it effect the commoners, which is the class paying most of the taxes, and the aristocrats, who never worked a day in their life. The theme resurrection and death is very common throughout the book. Dr. Manette and Sydney Carton have been metaphorically resurrected while Darnay almost dies three times, once in England and the other two times in France. A former doctor in France, Dr. Manette was imprisoned at the Bastille for attempting to reveal the story of Madame Defarge’s family. One of the Evremonde brothers raped a young girl while the other one helped cover it up and in the process killed a young boy. After 18 years in the Bastille, he was released but cannot function in the real world. Miss Manette “had a strong beneficial influence with him” (Dickens 84) and slowly remove “the black brooding” (Dickens 84) from Dr. …show more content…

Sydney Carton is a depressed lawyer based out of England who works with Mr. Stryver. He’s call “The Jackal” because while Mr. Stryver presented the case, it was Mr. Carton’s smart that helped them win cases. During and after the trial of Charles Darnay, Mr. Carton fell in love and is eventually “resurrected” by her. One day, Carton works up enough courage to talk to Miss Manette. Mr. Carton talks about how Lucie has “stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me” (Dickens 154) and if someone was ever required to sacrifice themselves in order to protect the Manette family, Carton would be the one to do it without hesitation. Eventually, Sydney, disguised as Charles Darnay, remember “he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet he shall live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die” (Dickens

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This is first foreshadowed in Book 2, Chapter 18 when Dr. Manette has a bad relapse after talking to Darnay on his wedding day about his real last name. The relapse was caused by a connection between Mantte’s previous imprisonment and Darnay’s family. This relapse lasted for a while, “The bench was turned toward the light…he had seen the shoemaker at his work before, and his head was bent down, and he was very busy”(Dickens 186). Because Mantte was not himself, he unknowingly denounced Darnay at Darnay’s second trial. Here is revealed that Darnay is actually part of the same that put Manette originally.

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Her family was long oppressed by aristocrats like Marquis Evremonde. In the coming years, the Evremonde brothers raped and murdered her sister, she also was pregnant with an unborn child. She was killed also. They also killed her father, brother and brother-in-law. The hatred and pain from these events built inside of her and

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The novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a novel that was written during the French Revolution. Many people during this time were oppressed and were treated unfairly. Innocent civilians were getting charged for things that they did not do and were either killed instantly for it, thrown in prison for the rest of their life until they died, or even executed after they were thrown in prison. This takes place, to an extent, in the novel with Charles Darnay and then Sydney Carton. The story starts off with Jarvis Lorry travelling to Paris in order to reunite Dr. Manette, who is thought to be dead, with his daughter, Lucy, that he hasn't seen for 18 years.

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He becomes friends with Lucie and Doctor Manette at the trial of Charles Darnay in London, and soon afterwards he starts coming around them more often. One night Carton opens his heart up to Lucie. As she describes it, she sees his heart “bleeding”. Even though he was in love with her, Carton feels and realizes that he is not good enough for her. Many men who were as in love with women as much as he was in love with Lucie would go to extremes to be with them regardless of anything but their own feelings, but Carton is different.

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She is of his utmost importance and he does not want anything to compromise their relationship. The morning before Lucie’s wedding, Charles Darnay, her soon-to-be husband, discloses some interesting news to Doctor Manette, Lucie’s father. While describing the scene, Dickens says, “The door of the Doctor’s room opened, and he came out with Charles Darnay. He was so deadly pale – which had not been the case when they went in together – that no vestige of colour was to be seen in his face” (149). As promised, Darnay tells Doctor Manette his family name, which is Evrémonde, the same name of the man who had imprisoned him for years, yet without a trial.

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Manette fought to fight for the life of Charles Darnay, he fought back his past and helped save his enemies from being killed in the French Revolution. When Dr. Manette stopped the wild rally against Charles Darnay, he was proud of himself and came face to face with is problems by himself: “I have saved him.” It was not another of the dreams in which he had often come back; he was really here” (3.7.355). Charles Dickens shows Dr. Manette as eye-opened as he thought it was “dream” that he saved his daughters husband. Dr. Manette without the help of others, saved Charles Darnay.

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Doctor Manette is imprisoned for eighteen years and soon after released, finds out that Charles Darnay is a part of the family who is behind Manette’s imprisonment. Doctor Manette is in prison because he had threatened to announce that the d’Evremonde’s raped a peasant woman, Madame Defarge’s sister, and the murder of the peasant womans husband. Doctor Manette does not want to seek revenge on Charles simply because Charles is married to Lucie, Manette’s daughter. For example, when Daniel Stout, author of “Nothing Personal: The Decapitation of Character in A Tale of Two Cities,” states, “Charles Darnay isn 't just someone that Lucy and her father meet on the boat back to England; he 's the son of the

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