A Change of Fate in A Tale of Two Cities Essay

Charles Darnay: Charles Darnay is a French aristocrat who abandons his family and moves to England. He works as a tutor and marries Lucie Manette. When Charles returns to France, he is sentenced to death because of the crimes his family

Love has the power to change the world. It can do far more than any speech, treaty, or war. Love, on a smaller scale, can especially impact the lives of those who communicate and receive it. This passion has the ability to assuage, provide comfort, and provide life. In particular, one girl dedicates her life to spreading love, even when she must sacrifice a large amount of her time. This woman is Lucie Manette. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses the character of Lucie Manette to prove that love and sacrifice can impact one’s life.

Mr. Lorry braces Lucie for a shock: her father is not dead. He has been found, though he's a shell of his former self. Manette is now in the care of a former servant in Paris, and Mr. Lorry tells the astonished Lucie that he and she are going to go to Paris so that she can "restore [her father] to life."

Story-truth, these are the truths that cannot be seen but are known to exist. These connect with a person on an empathetic level. Tim uses his storytelling ability to highlight that even when a story is not true that it can be truer than a story that is founded in happening-truth. In a Tale of Two Cities a story truth can be seen in Chapter XV “Knitting”. The man who killed the Marquis is placed in a series of horrible tortures to atone for his crime. The ultimate result is an expounding of fact within the town nearby. The revolutionists of France use this story to portray the absolute horridness of the aristocracy. The “mender of roads”, who claims to have witnessed the whole event, states:

Dr. Manette is resurrected, or recalled to life, multiple times in A Tale of Two Cities. Lucie Manette, Dr. Manette’s daughter, always helps in saving him. Dr. Manette’s story begins with him being imprisoned in the Bastille. He gets out after eighteen years and stays at Monsieur Defarge, an old servant’s house. This is where Lucie meets him for the first time.

In a Tale of Two Cities, a novel written by Charles Dickens, conflict can only be resolved by the actions of once slovenly appearing characters. This is done by the changing of their outlooks on life despite their previous hardships. Dr. Manette exemplifies heroism from his transformation of being a psychotic bastille survivor into a healthy father and mentor. However, Carton shows even more heroism, mainly for his commitment, and braveness. Although the hardships Carton faced were not as difficult to overcome compared to Manette, Carton had to transform completely by himself and made the ultimate sacrifice in the end.

When looking for a partner, employee, or just a friend, loyalty is an important attribute for them to have if you want a long trustworthy relationship. Many themes are displayed in the novel “tale of two cities”, loyalty being one of them. A few if not most of the characters in the novel display some sort of loyalty toward someone or thing. Miss pross for one, is very loyal towards the mannette family, and specifically lucie, or her “ladybird”. miss pross also demonstrates loyalty towards her country and her king in one point of the novel.

  In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, many characters are given second chances as their lives are resurrected. The central heroine woman, Lucy Manette, is responsible for the resurrections of Sydney Carton and Dr. Alexander Manette's lives. She gives them inspiration and love to help them recover from their seemingly hopeless states. In turn, Carton gives up his own life in order to save a friend. The lives of Sydney Carton, Dr. Manette, and Charles Darnay are all resurrected at times when hope is lost.

900 years ago two Witches, during the time of the witch era, which was real, placed a curse of two cities giving the people in them the Gifts. One witch, Elizabeth, thought that people didn't need powers, and wanted only a protection over the city and granted the people the ability to leave. Well, the other witch, Meredith, wanted these humans to be special beyond compare with Gifts like none other, but this was so powerful that with the gift the people would be forced to forever live in the city. The gifts would stay dormant until needed. So, when the Witch’s placed the two spells, the strongest, most powerful spells ever cast, on the cities some of the magic switched between the cities, causing the gifted city to have humans and the ungifted city to have gifted humans.

Manette sacrifices his sanity by allowing Charles Darnay to marry Lucie and by giving up the comfort of his shoemaker’s bench. On the wedding day of Lucie and Darnay, Darnay keeps his promise and tells Dr. Manette about his past and family. Although Darnay is the nephew of the Marquis St. Evermonde, who threw Dr. Manette in jail for eighteen years, Dr. Manette still allows him to marry Lucie. Dr. Manette does this because Lucie loves Darnay and Dr. Manette loves her. After the wedding is over and Lucie and Charles have left for their honeymoon, Mr. Lorry, Miss Pross, and Dr. Manette are sitting in the shade and “Mr. Lorry [observes] a great change to have come over the Doctor; as if the golden arm uplifted there, had struck him a poisoned blow” (149). The change in demeanor is a physical foreshadowing of how Dr. Manette sacrifices his sanity for the happiness of Lucie Manette. He does not want to show Lucie how much the marriage affects him; however, once she is gone he lets the façade drop. When Miss Pross, Mr. Lorry, and Dr. Manette get back to the Manette household, Dr. Manette has a relapse of his past habits from jail of shoemaking, not talking and going insane. After nine days, he returns to normal and has a conversation with Mr. Lorry when the shoemaker’s bench comes up. As Mr. Lorry attempts to coax Dr. Manette into ridding himself of it, Dr. Manette talks about how “it is such an old companion” and a comfort, that he is afraid of getting rid of it (157). Mr. Lorry urges “him to sacrifice it…for his daughter’s sake” (158). Upon hearing this, Dr. Manette realizes that the “old companion” must go so that he can focus on his relationship with Lucie and her upcoming family (157). He allows the removal of the shoemaker’s bench, but asks for the disposal to be when he is not around. The sacrifice that Dr. Manette makes here ultimately sets him up for another relapse later on in the book; however he

Sydney’s devotion for Lucie is self-deprecating and sacrificial in nature. Sydney sees Lucie as an impossible goal, for which a man of his station can never reach. During Darnay’s trial in London, Sydney becomes infatuated with Lucie the moment he sees her. Although, as a result of his lack of self-confidence he resigns himself to loving her from afar. However, with news of Darnay’s courtship of her, Sydney finally decides to reveal his passion to Lucie, and arrives at her home in London disheveled and exposed emotionally. He graciously asks her to listen to him speak and begins both his tale of hatred for himself and fascination for Lucie. During his speech, Sydney thanks Lucie for giving him a new purpose, for inspiring him to change, even

A Tale of Two Cities Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson's Bank, was sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly imprisoned physician, in Paris and bring him back to England. Lucie, Manette's daughter who thought that he was dead, accompanied Mr. Lorry. Upon arriving at Defarge's wine shop in Paris, they found Mr. Manette in a dreadful state and took him back to London with them. Mr. Manette could not rember why he had been imprisoned, or when he was imprisoned. He was in a state of Post Tramatic Stress Dis-order.

Charles Dickens utilizes doubles and contrasts to enhance the plot of Dickens uses parallels in characters, social classes, and events that compliment each other to strengthen the plot. Its themes of violence in revolutionaries, resurrection, and sacrifice also help support the story.

Jarvis Lorry, a loyal and gracious man, has a substantial influence on the other characters in “A Tale of Two Cities” by gracing them with his love, faith, and thoughtful help. Mr. Lorry, a banker at Tellson’s bank is known as a good businessman like Ernest Defarge. Jarvis Lorry took a business trip to France, where he managed the bank and at the time, France was a “war zone”. Charles Dickens puts a character like Jarvis Lorry in the book because he is there to help people during the crisis. Mr. Lorry’s graciousness took full effect when he went out of his way to help Lucie find her father, who broke down in tears for Jarvis Lorry’s kind hospitality. “Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee” Lorry sits with his gentlemen posture, looking like a portrait (Dickens 16).

In the beginning of the book, Jarvis Lorry and Miss Lucie Manette meet and travel together to rescue Lucie’s father, Doctor Manette. The book jumps ahead to a time when Lucie has revived her dad, and the two are witnessing a trial against Charles