Dr. Manette Doctor of Beauvais Shoemaking- when? Reaction to Charles Darnay; shadow Reaction to Lucie Manette- “recalled to life” Reaction while in Paris Value of shoemaking might need it and not finding it might mean “terror to the heart” Theme(s)

Lucie Manette “golden thread”; “light of freedom” shining on her father Reaction to Sydney Carton- seeks to “recall”; “not at ease with him” Reaction to Madame Defarge- “We are more afraid of you”; “that woman throws a shadow on me and all my hopes Theme(s)

Sydney Carton “Fellow of no delicacy”; “life has no good in it for me”;“I am a disappointed drudge sir. I care for no man on earth and no man on earth cares for me” Reaction to Charles Darnay: “he shows you what you have fallen away from”; “you hate the fellow”; “same sort of fellow”; “no sadder sight” Reaction to Lucie: “last dream of my soul”; you kindled me…into a fire”; “I opened my heart to you”; “There is a man who would give his life to keep a life beside you” Theme

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” “I am the resurrection and the life’ Theme(s)

Madame Defarge Behavior at the wine shop Knitting and fate: the finger of fate; knitted with the steadfastness of fate; makes shrouds; shadow Character: “not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman”; her husband considers “A great woman, strong woman, a grand woman, a frightfully grand woman.” “tigress” Family history: “Tell wind and fire where to stop but don’t tell me.” “Doomed to destruction. The chateau and all the race.” Inspires disquietude in numerous characters Theme

Settings Wine shop- San Antoine; red wine spills, stains the ground, “wine game” and a “special companionship in it”; “BLOOD” “Lords in Waiting: cold, dirt sickness, want” House in Soho- “a very harbor from the raging streets” Storming of the Bastille Tellson’s bank- old fashioned and proud; “on par with the country”; “perfection of inconvenience” The Grindstone- “wildest savages” “barbarous disguises” “all smeared with blood”

Chateau with Charles and the Reversal That Plays Out Through the Revolution The Chateau- Gorgon’s head, stone/stony; whips and spears sending poor to “their benefactor Death” Marquis St. Evermonde “I believe our name to be more detested” “Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low” “Dark deference of fear and slavery” “A compliment” “Repression is the only lasting philosophy…dogs obedient to the whip’ “We have done wrong…Have mercy and redress”; ”curse on it” “I will die perpetuating the system under which I have lived” “Drive him fast to his tomb, this from Jacques” REVERSAL: “I know how hard it has grown for me to support life in myself, but do you know how easy it has grown for me to destroy life in you?”

Universal Quotes It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart. With the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate. Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. How warped and perverted all things good by nature were become. Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Reread “The Wine Shop” “Echoing Footsteps” “The Grindstone” “The Footsteps Die Out Forever” Prompts 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46 Themes: revenge, oppression/revolution, resurrection, sacrifice, love, fate