Manette Vs Carton

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.

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