Tale Of Two Cities Female Character Analysis

Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is driven by the complex relationship between the characters. At the core of this, female characters influence both the plot and other characters greatly; female characters encourage the males in the novel to act in certain ways. However, it is evident that Dickens did not fully develop both of his female characters and implements his own thoughts on women on the female characters. Although women did play a significant role in the novel for clear purposes, Dickens did not develop their characters fully for several reasons. Each character influences her surrounding in different ways, Lucie Manette is portrayed as a beautiful girl with golden hair and blue eyes, yet she not only has beautiful appearances but also has a kind and loving heart. Because of her charming appearance and kind personality, she is loved by many characters in the book. Her caring and compassionate personality towards those who are around her appear multiple times in the book: she faithfully takes care of her old and ill father whom she did not meet for years, reaches out to Carton in a concern

While Lucie Manette is the more reserved, loving, and passive character, Madame Defarge develops to be more aggressive, ruthless, and active character. Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge are foils of each other; although they are ones of the few female main characters of the book, their dramatic difference in characters highlight each other’s innocent and evil character. In this way, although it may seem like each of the two characters themselves are quite simple, flat, and undeveloped, together can successfully depict all aspects of the human nature. While the good characters, like Lucie Manette show just how evil the bad characters are, the bad characters like Madame Defarge look more sinister as they compare to the good characters. understand and analyze the positive traits in Lucy