Madame Defarge, Sydney Carton, And Charles Darnay

Dickens’ Madame Defarge develops a vast amount of hatred towards the Evremonde Family after the atrocities committed by them on

During her labor a look of murderous, unforgiving hatred comes over her. So much in fact, that she bit and mangled the hand that helped her during the birth. Wanting nothing to do with the newly born twins, Cathy flees her home, husband and the two infants she has bore. Her manipulation of sex now becomes even more prevalent. Having nowhere to go, Cathy known now as Kate, takes shelter in a whore house. She quickly begins work and in almost no time has made a name for herself. Gradually she works her way up through the ranks and is soon running the house on her own. Her sense of power clearly comes from hurting and destroying others through sex. During one of Adams two visits to Kate, he discovers just how devious she truly is. "She took out a photograph. 'Look there. That's the State Senator. He thinks he's going to run for Congress. He likes whips. That streak there-that's a whip mark. ... In a few years I'll be going away. And when I do-those pictures will be dropped in the mail ....'" (322-23). Her scheme of blackmail displays her lack of a conscious. Because of this, Steinbeck has created a powerful character that provokes disillusion, or an emotion felt when one's self patterns are distorted. As seen thougout the novel, Cathy's own evilness arouses the devil within her.

Lastly, good did triumph over evil in Sydney Carton. Sydney Carton is a drunk who hates Darnay because if Carton was not a drunk he would have everything Darnay has, like the love of Lucie Manette. Carton is seen as the darkness because of the disparity he has and how low he has fallen. Whereas Darnay is seen as light or the good guy due to how his life is going. In the end when Sydney gives up his life for Darnay it shows how Sydney is transferring from being sad and dark. His selfless act proved that the “bad” Sydney Carton has saved Darnay and kept Lucie, Cartons love, happy.

The stories in the movie High Noon and the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” may seem similar, but they are quite different. However, they do contain some similarities. The biggest similarities between the stories are the themes we see in the story. The plot of these two stories is quite different. In addition to this, the main antagonists of both of these are completely different.

Justice is one of the main theme from this book, as each character tries to get justice. In this book we see the distress and agony that Madame Defarge suffers with. Mainly because of her sister’s deaths and family suffering, due to the Evremonde brother’s, Charles Darnay’s father and uncle. Ever since that happened she’s wanted justice for her and her family. The justice that Madame Defarge wanted later turn into retribution, which lead her to a path of darkness, making her wanting the death of Charles Darnay and his family. At the same time, she was fighting for justice for France, which made her want more lives to be dead for the good of her people. those dead are my dead, and that summons to answer for those things descends to me!’… “Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop,” … “but don’t tell me.” (Dickens 339) Many readers might portray her as the “villain” of this book, but she really is not. All she wanted is justice for what was done

In Chapter Six, “Quiet at Home,” Dickens gives us another example of her more important purpose in the novel:

Sydney Carton is the most memorable character in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, a story of redemption, resurrection, self-sacrifice change and love, all of these words have to do with the extreme transformation of. Sydney Carton had such great love for Lucie Mannette that evolves from a depressed loaner that can only attempt to substitute happiness with alcoholic indulgence to a loyal caring friend who makes the ultimate sacrifice for the ones he loves.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens not only vividly illustrates the gruesome and barbaric years of the French Revolution, but also entertains the reader through the recurring irony in the novel. Dickens manipulates the storyline in such a way that the novel takes a life of it’s own and leaves the reader jaw-dropped. Charles Dickens uses verbal irony, irony of each character, and chance to pull in the reader and bring them along the crazy ride of A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens utilizes verbal irony throughout the novel to describe characters with titles that are the complete opposite of actuality.

    Tattycoram may be most easily characterized by her short temper and irritability. Her body language is relatively early on in the novel described as “contemptuous” and “impatient” and she was—according to her adopted family, the Meagles—prone to outbursts (Dickens 212; 213). Yet, her body language itself seems to communicate an additional layer to Tattycoram which surpasses Dickens’ adjectives or the Meagles’ descriptions—namely, that she is constantly trying to contain her emotions, her anger and irritability. Dickens writes that “Tattycoram set her full red lips together, and crossed her arms upon her bosom” and later in the same scene that “[s]he pressed her lips together again, and took a long deep breath” (214). This scene, in which the Meagles repeatedly question Tattycoram about the mysterious Miss Wade, the reader gets a sense that Tattycoram is trying to keep her composure, suppressing her desires to show her emotions. She “pressed her lips together” to avoid saying something unpleasant, while she “crossed her

Dickens lastly proclaims, “‘She will now be at home, awaiting the moment of mind to impeach the justice of the Republic. She will be full of sympathy with its enemies’” (280). This elaborates how Madame Defarge plans to condemn Lucie because she knows that Lucie will be mourning. This also describes how Madame Defarge has her revenge planned

Charles Dickens offers two different perceptions and perspectives in time to guide the reader through Bleak House. The manner in which the author presents the story characterize Dickens’s peculiar technique. First, there is an alternation in the point of view throughout the novel and second, there is a parallel change between present tense and past tense. His choice of dual narrator may seem a questionable approach or even confusing at times, but the two narrators work together to deliver the story. Although each one tells a somewhat detailed and exhaustive tale, they depend on the other to introduce characters and describe events, filling in the blanks that the other leaves.

Sydney is not truly in love with Lucie, but merely in love with the idea of Lucie. Dickens proves from time to time that Carton is an

Dickens characterizes Madame Defarge as “absolutely without pity” to where it “was nothing to her that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers”(281). She has no qualms about killing an innocent man, and she cannot see the man for

Dickens’ ability to think ahead and map out his thrilling and exceptionally clever plot is perhaps the reason for his wide success in developing the characters to reflect true human natures in reacting to jaw-dropping events of the time. Love, devotion, violence and chaos are all involved in Dickens’ tale set prior to the French Revolution which, as it turned out, is the main catalyst for the oppressive drama created. Where Paris is described as the bloodthirsty and fiery city amidst the hot turmoil, London remains the clear lesser of two evils with its general order and safety. The social upheaval initiated within the streets of Paris turns the lives of many upside down, in particular, a misjudged man known as Sydney Carton along with his

Madame Defarge, a peasant who has been mistreated by aristocrats her whole life, is the brain of the Revolution and the character who has been controlling the Fates of everyone. Throughout the book, her victims are “to be registered” (174) into Defarge’s knitting, which she does by using “her own stitches and her own symbols” (174). Her knitting is an allusion to The Fates from Greek mythology—three sisters who determine human destinies through knitting. By knitting the names of her victims, Madame Defarge is sentencing them to death. Through this, Dickens develops her as an allegorical character for Fate; she quite literally is dictating the