Tale Of Two Cities Research Paper

In 1859, Charles Dickens wrote The Tale of Two Cities revolving around the life of the French Revolution in Paris and London. The story involved many characters residing in both cities like Dr. Manette, an old revolutionary prisoner who was the long-lost father of a Miss Lucie Manette. Two other characters the book followed were Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Two men who were identical but lived very separate ways of life. Charles Darnay came from a line of French aristocrats who believed the first concern in life was keeping their fortune secure. Darnay did not believe in this way of thinking so he left his family and moved to London to earn an honorable living. Sydney on the other hand was a very intelligible man who wasted it all at

Manette he was at his lowest of lows. He had just been released from the revolutionaries’ prison and was in a state of shock. He was stuck in a routine of making shoes and repeating “One Hundred and Five North Tower”. Dr. Manette had lost his sanity. That’s when Lucie Manette walked into the picture. Lucie was the daughter of Manette who had grown up her entire life thinking her father was dead. Lucie was so frightened by the news that she fainted from mental exhaustion. When Mr. Lorry brought Lucie to Dr. Manette at first, he didn’t even look up long enough to realize it was his daughter standing in front of

He actually had restoration quite a few times. At the beginning of the story, Darnay was disowning his Uncle and family by leaving Paris to become a better man. This was his first instance of being recalled to life. The next two times, he was saved by Sydney Carton. Sydney rescued him from being incarcerated during trial and being murdered by guillotine at the end of the book. During Darnay’s trail it was looking pretty glib until Carton stepped up from the back of the room and explained his story to the officials. Darnay and Carton had an interesting relationship; the two were often found in strange circumstances with one another, like both men professing their love for the same girl, Carton saving Darnay in a murder trial, and Carton switching places with Darnay in a revolutionary cell for the sake of Charles’