Charles Darnay, in the book he is introduced on page 65 when the judge announces, “Silence in the court! Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded not guilty…”-Dickens, Charles (Pg 65 Ph. 4 Ln. 1). He was introduced on trial for a crime, what crime? Treason, he was accused of being a traitor to the royal Crown.. He is essentially acquitted thanks to his Lawyer Sydney Carton, due to an irrefutable resemblance to Darnay. After which they pretty much praise Darnay for escaping the clutch of death in his trial, as Carton, grows to dislike him, in his alcoholic state of mind he drowns himself in jealousy and wallows in the fact that Darnay is everything he is not. Although Darnay does not really change a lot in the novel, he has however changed in …show more content…
Something about him that people describe is that he is one of the few French aristocrats born with a conscious. This is important when describing his character because throughout the course of the novel he doesn’t change. When we meet him on trial he is still the same person who marries Lucie, and is still the same person who gets put on trial, again, TWICE. But even though a change isn’t seen it is known that he doesn’t have that option anymore because he already cashed that ticket in his earlier life. I believe that the influences around him pushed his moral state to grow and make him this great person but, even though he is looked on as a hero, I think that he just doesn’t are anymore, possibly due to cashing the ticket in when the lotto was at 5,000 while as Carton waited until the jackpot was a few million. So due to that realization I think he tries his hardest to prove his good worthy nature, to show that he is the furthest thing from an Evrémonde and does. He makes a perilous journey to France in an attempt to save Gabelle, a man charged with the maintenance of the Evrémonde estate, so the equivalent to harboring a fugitive in today’s time. He puts his own life at risk to save this man, something I’m sure his predecessors would never do, and that kind of shows the evolution from being born Satan’s son and rising to …show more content…
At first we see him help Darnay out by telling the court plain and simply that they look alike and can’t really be sure he is the traitor. He claims to care about no one and nothing, he also makes a few bitter and sardonic, remarks about Miss Manette, which are a conflict of interest as he has feelings for the miss but lacks the courage and tenacity to say anything. His feelings for her are strong in fact that before she is to wed Darnay, Carton expresses his love for as he still feels the same about himself he can’t help express his feelings for her. He shows readers that a change is coming, this weak frail man steps out into the night awaiting for the full moon to arise and reveal the werewolf within. All the while he and his colleague Mr. Stryver continue their work as law men as while drinking. Stryver has watched Carton and has seen the way he is and although he make the typical remarks as a boy would about a girl he like, Stryver often wondered about how Carton really feels about the fair miss