A Tale Of Two Morals
...and darkness. Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is no exception to this theme. There are two major characters who fit these descriptions perfectly: Lucie Manette and Madame Therese Defarge. Lucie, being one of the main protagonists of the novel, supports the role of lightness. Madame Defarge on the other hand, since she is the major antagonist, is a woman of very dark and evil morals. In the first book of the novel; during the long list of contradictions, the fourth set in the list says “it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness”(7), this shows that the reader should expect to see certain amounts of both good and evil when they experience the thrill of the French Revolution.
Lucie Manette inevitably represent the forces of good through out the novel. “Ever busily winding the golden thread that bound them all together weaving the service of her happy influence through the tissue of all their lives, and making it predominate nowhere, Lucie heard in the echoes of years none but friendly and soothing sounds”(208). She is the idol of joy and happiness in everyone’s lives, except for Madame Defarge of course. Though out the entire novel, Lucie’s beauty seems to brighten everyone’s day. She wins the hearts of many people including both Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, of whom she shares a hand with in marriage.
“Besides the glancing tears that shone among the smiles of the little group when it was done, some diamonds, very bright and sparkling, glanced on the bride’s hand, which were newly released from the dark obscurity of one of Mr. Lorry’s pockets”(192). A new era in the new Mrs. Darnay’s life has sprung up along with a new daughter. The next few years of her life are filled with happiness as she spends them with Charles and her daughter. Weddings bring out the happiness in everyone, Charles Dickens was very ingenious man for...
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