cryptic words, “Recalled to Life.”
At Dover, Lorry is met by Lucie Manette, a young orphan whose father, a once-eminent doctor whom she supposed dead, has
been discovered in France.
Saint Antoine
Lorry escorts Lucie to Paris, where they meet Defarge, a former servant of Doctor Manette, who has kept Manette safe in a
garret.
Jacquire
Manette spends all of his time making shoes, a hobby he learned while in prison for eighteen years.
The year is now 1780. Charles Darnay stands accused of treason against the English crown.
A lawyer named Stryver pleads Darnay’s case, but it is not until his drunk, good-for-nothing colleague, Sydney Carton,
assists him that the court acquits Darnay.
Carton escorts Darnay to a tavern and asks how it feels to receive the sympathy of a woman like Lucie. Carton despises and
resents Darnay because he reminds him of all that he himself has given up and might have been.
Four months passed
In France, the cruel Marquis Evrémonde runs down a plebian child with his carriage. The Marquis shows no regret, but instead
curses the peasantry and hurries home to his chateau, where he awaits the arrival of his nephew, Darnay, from England.
Arriving later that night, Darnay curses his uncle and the French aristocracy for its abominable treatment of the people. He
renounces his identity as an Evrémonde and announces his intention to return to England.
“Drive him fast to his tomb” - JACQUES
That night, the Marquis is murdered; the murderer has left a note signed with the nickname adopted by French
revolutionaries: “Jacques.”
A year passed – Darney living in London as a French tutor.
A year passes, and Darnay asks Manette for permission to marry Lucie that he will reveal also his true identity to Manette.
Mr. Stryver & Sydney Carton talks about Lucie
Mr. Stryver stops to ask Mr. Lorry's opinion on his proposal to Lucie.
Sydney Carton goes and talks to Lucie.
Funeral for Roger Cly who is convicted spying against England
Jerry Cruncher goes to the graveyard and sons follow him.
Madam Defarge is always knitting as a coded record.
John Barsad and informed that Lucie is getting married with Charles
Darney.
married in a small ceremony.
Lorry found Dr. Manette relapse again.
Dr. Manette agrees to get rid of the bench.
It is now 1789.
July 1789, the Defarges help to lead the storming of the Bastille.
Defarge enters Dr. Manettes former cell and search thoroughly.
Local officials and other representatives of the aristocracy are dragged to be killed.
In 1792, Lorry collect important documents for safekeeping in London.
Darney intercepts a letter written by Gabelle and beg for help.
Darney is denounced being an emigrated aristocrat from France and jailed in
La Force Prison.
Dr. Manette and Lucie unexpectedly heard about Darney.
Lucie ask helps from Madam Defarge but she refuses.
More than a year, Dr. Manette tells Lucie the spot that Darney might be
able to see her.
Dr. Manette testifies in support with Darney.
Darney is being arrested again with the new charges by the Defarges and
Dr. Manette.
Ms. Pross and Jerry was stopping at the wine shop and recognize her
brother, Solomon.
Sydney Carton blackmailed Barsad in cooperating his secret plan.
Darnay’s trial, a letter was presented and explains the cause of Manette’s imprisonment. Years ago, the brothers Evrémonde
(Darnay’s father and uncle) enlisted Manette’s medical assistance. They asked him to tend to a woman, whom one of the
brothers had raped, and her brother, whom the same brother had stabbed fatally. Fearing that Manette might report their
misdeeds, the Evrémondes had him arrested.
Flashback in 1757
A pair of twin brothers which is one is his uncle of Darnay and one is his father. They asked help from Dr. Manette.
Flashback in 1757
But the twins also wants to treat the other patient from another which is the brother of a woman who he found out raped
by the twins and caused his fatal injury in defending his sister.
Flashback in 1757
Dr. Manette returned to the woman and a week after, she also died.
Flashback in 1757
The mother of Darnay knows what happened and wanted to atone the sins of his husband and his twin brother. She said
that it would be the responsibility of his son.
Flashback in 1757
A strangers asked helped on an urgent case. Ernest Defarge was their. As soon as the doctor agrees, he was locked up at the
Bastille and locked away.
Upon hearing this story, the jury condemns Darnay for the crimes of his ancestors and sentences him to die within twenty-four
hours.
Carton overhears Madame Defarge plotting to have Lucie and her daughter (also Darnay’s daughter) executed as well; Madame
Defarge, it turns out, is the surviving sibling of the man and woman killed by the Evrémondes.
Carton arranges for the Manettes’ immediate departure from France.
He then visits Darnay in prison, tricks him into changing clothes with him, and, after dictating a letter of explanation, drugs his
friend unconscious. Barsad carries Darnay,
Madame Defarge arrives at Lucie’s apartment, hoping to arrest her. There she finds the supremely protective Miss Pross. A
scuffle ensues, and Madame Defarge dies by the bullet of her own gun.
Sydney Carton meets his death at the guillotine, and the narrator confidently asserts that Carton dies with the knowledge that
he has finally imbued his life with meaning.
Interpretation
From: https://www.enotes.com/topics/tale-of-two-cities
The moral of the book is that there is duality in the world. Where there is light, there is
also darkness. Right and wrong have very much to do with who writes the history and
what the situation looks like when the blood hits the ground. Because of this duality. It is
important to be wary of whom you trust and causes for which you fight.
In the end, the moral of the story is that a person must be responsible for their own
choices, the people they trust, and the actions that they take. Because of the duality that
exists in the world, the only truth is in who you are and what you do, yourself. Everything
else is susceptible to corruption. Because of the duality that exists even in yourself. It is
important to weigh and be responsible for your actions.
Interpretation
From: http://www.novelguide.com/a-tale-of-two-cities/theme-analysis
1.
Perspective
The novel's opening statement "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" sets the
tone for a story in which a given circumstance is perceived as good or bad depending upon
the point of view. Jerry Cruncher, for instance, considers his nocturnal occupation a viable
source of income to provide for his hungry family but Mr. Lorry views it as an abhorrent
practice worthy of censure. The revolution itself is believed to be an abomination by the
exiled aristocrats see it as an opportunity for empowerment and revenge for the
oppressed. Most significantly, Doctor Manette's Bastille manuscript reveals that during his
years in prison the doctor believed that the whole Evremonde clan should be destroyed
but when his daughter has wedded an Evremonde he is resolute in his determination to
save him.
Interpretation
From: http://www.novelguide.com/a-tale-of-two-cities/theme-analysis
2.
Class Struggle
The struggle between those who have power and privilege and those who do not. The French
aristocrats exercise complete and more-or-less unfettered freedom to persecute and deprive
those of the lower classes. In Doctor Manette's prison manuscript which details how one of the
Evremonde brothers utilized his medieval privilege of harnessing a vassal to a cart and driving him
like an animal to his death. It is also shown by Jerry Cruncher's insistence that the strict and violent
sentence of quartering is "barbarous" and being told by the sanctimonious bank clerk that the law
is just simply because it exists. Later, when the tables have turned, it is the peasants who use their
newly discovered power to harshly persecute the aristocrats through mass executions and
imprisonment. Darnay notes when he is first interred in La Force prison that the rough looking
men are in charge and the prisoners are polite and civil. Jerry Cruncher is deeply affected by the
revolution and he more than any other English character in the novel would have reason to be
inspired by the uprising of the French poor. But as a good Englishman, his avowal that its bloody
sights have caused him to reconsider his grave robbing occupation indicates that he, at least,
recognizes the futility in avenging violence with violence.
Interpretation
From: http://www.novelguide.com/a-tale-of-two-cities/theme-analysis
3.
Self-Sacrifice
The novel's theme of self-sacrifice is best exemplified in the character of Sydney Carton
whose willingness to give his own life for Lucie's happiness creates the means for Charles
Darnay's salvation. This theme is furthered by the seamstress who accompanies Carton to
the Guillotine who hopes that by her death her cousin, a long-suffering member of the
peasant class, will profit by the bloody revolution. Charles Darnay is willing to sacrifice his
own happiness when he returns to France in an attempt to save the life of his former
servant. Furthermore, Doctor Manette is shown to sacrifice his own mental health when
he suffers a relapse of his prison-born derangement by allowing the nephew of his
nemesis to marry his daughter.
Interpretation
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