Tale Of Two Cities

In A Tale of Two Cities, there are two characters, which are identified as lawyers. C.J. Stryver is one lawyer, and Sydney Carton is another lawyer. C.J Stryver was an arrogant, egotistical man who believed he was the best lawyer that existed. Sydney Carton was a succesfull lawyer, who did not like to be in the spotlight. So C.J. Stryver would not have been a successful lawyer without the help of Sydney Carton.

In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens opens with an anaphora, about how the world is throughout the novel. A reoccurring theme throughout this story is the battle between good and evil. Most of the novel is about the struggles each force has and how most of the time good triumphs over evil. In A Tale of Two Cities, the triumph of love, the death of the Marquis, and the contrast between Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay shows how good triumphed over evil.

Even though Charles Darnay, for the most part, is a passive character but he is needed in the novel because he symbolizes change, Justice, and Duty. Charles St. Evremonde was a French nobleman also going to be the next Marquis, but realizes his family wrongdoings, and decides to start over. He changes his name to Charles Darnay and becomes a low French tutor in London. Despite his attempts to distance himself from the scandals and horrors of the French aristocracy, Darnay keeps getting back into trouble. Charles darnay was tried for many reasons, but kept true to himself believing he was good man.

A tale of two cities begins in 1775 when Mr. Jarvis Lorry goes to fetch Lucy Manette to visit her father, who has been imprisoned for her whole life. The Manettes meet Charles Darnay Stryver, and Sydney Carton at a legal trial they are witnesses to, where Darnay is accused of being a spy. Sydney Carton, the lawyer wins the case by pointing out the court cannot prove it was Darnay. Here we learn Darnay and

After Charles and Lucie had been married, Sydney Carton never gave up. He asked Darnay if he could come and visit him and his family every time he wants so that he could see Lucie and her family if they are okay.

Lucie and Sydney Carton also illustrate sacrificing for their loved ones throughout the book. “‘She was the golden thread that united him to a past beyond misery’” (p. 96). This quote describes how Lucie holds her father together. Lucie demonstrates sacrifice for her loved ones by guiding Dr.Manette to his recovery. Lucie sacrifices time to help Dr.Manette recover from his prison sentence. She makes sure that nothing will interrupt his peace and bring him back to his awful prison memories. Carton demonstrates sacrifice for his loved ones because even though he is battling with addiction and depression he still puts a smile on his face whenever he is around Lucie. He sacrifices his own heart wrenching feelings to make Lucie feel safe and sound.

Despite Carton’s disliking for Darnay decides to once again save Darnay’s life just before he is to be beheaded by the revolutionaries and their beloved guillotine. He creates an elaborate plan that includes blackmail with a double-crossing spy, Barsad, the changing of clothes with Darnay, and using a special vapor to knock Darnay out and send him back to England with his family. Carton, because of his uncanny resemblance to Darnay gets away with taking his identity. He stays unphased by the situations that follow and just before he is beheaded he envisions a better future. This includes “[Lucie] with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name… I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up the path of life” (292-293). Carton was not nervous when staring death in the face, proving his braveness.

This wasted potential is emphasized when both Darnay and Carton fall in love with Lucie Manette. Darnay, as the typical charming hero, is chosen over desperate, brooding Carton. As a result, Carton finds himself channeling his love and his physical advantage of being Darnay’s double into keeping Lucie safe and happy by way of rescuing Darnay from the guillotine. Thus, Carton is able to become the proverbial “good guy,” a role he saw for himself in his counterpart, Darnay. He also managed to thwart the Defarges’ plot to murder all those connected to the aristocracy in any way. In this way, Dickens is able to use the comparisons and contrasts between the two men to show how love is capable of victory over violence and vengeance.

Sydney Carton is this figure, once tormented and saddened by his own dreadful life, he is now able to redeem himself by taking this risk, dying for Darnay. This wouldn’t be possible without his one true motivation, his passionate appreciation and love that he has for Lucie, and because of this love, he will do anything for her, even death.People take risks to achieve certain goals, and Sydney Carton took a huge risk, pretending to be Charles Darnay and going to the guillotine in Darnay’s place to die. But Carton is able to disregard all these consequences, taking an enormous risk of death to complete a motivational task in which he envisioned to have great everlasting effects on the ones he

Charles Darnay sacrifices all the luxuries that come with being part of the Evrémonde family

     In Charles Dickens’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities,” and in all his novels, he wants to confuse people to keep them reading. He creates complex characters who change over time, or rather just gives us more information influence our decisions our opinions. One of these complex characters who Dickens brings out in different light later is Sydney Carton.

Sydney Carton's life is made meaningful by the hope that he receives from Lucy Manette. At the beginning of the story, Sydney Carton's life has no significance. He is a drunkard with a seemingly worthless life. Sydney is working as a clerk for the lawyer C.J. Stryver, and though Sydney is the real brains behind the ideas, the attorney receives all the credit. Carton has had an unfavorable life and has no inspiration, nothing to live for. Sydney really wants for his life to have served some purpose, for him to have made a difference. He changes his life around after a conversation with Miss Manette in which Carton professes his love to her. Carton

In the beginning, Sydney Carton’s the character that everyone looks down upon. He is depression, hate and self-loathing personified. His total carelessness overshadows anything else about him, especially when his first impression is given. Sydney is introduced when Charles

Carton further helps Darnay and implies more of his heroism when he dies for him. Carton’s great love and respect for Lucie holds him to the promise he made to her when he said that he would die for anyone she loved. The sheer act of heroism possessed him to buy the elixir that would cause Darnay to pass out, to switch clothing, and take Darnay’s place in prison. Carton knew that if his plan was discovered, he would be just as dead as Darnay. However, Carton kept in mind his promise and carried it through. At this point in time, Darnay expressed a sense of heroism as well because he was prepared to face his death without fear. Darnay would have

In the story, The Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, the character Charles Darnay, an accused treasonist, faces 3 main conflicts in the story, when he must choose in between his love of country, his love of his family, and his other responsibilities and he tries to fix them. To begin with, his love for his country, Darnay travels to England from France and wasn’t able to help with the revolution. Next, his love of his family, He doesn’t love his family as much and his family reputation’s bad because of him. He is very sad “that I believe our name to be more detested than any name in France." (Page 127)He changes his name to Darnay and that is the end of that. Furthermore, Other Responsibilities, He is always worried about his country and