1. A Tale of Two Cities

2. Victorian Prose Prose Novel, magazines, word Dickens Problem, problem
Oliver Twist

3. About Charles Dickens -loved, people Characterization - Oliver Twist
- A Christmas Carol
- David Copperfield
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Great Expectations
Nobility
Debtor, factory
Blame-shifter, society-oriented

4. About Charles Dickens “Boz.” Write Autobiographical
Historical, action, least

5. General Information Omniscient, never Historical, French, critical
Less, say, do, modern
London, England
Paris, France

6. Characters Bastille, Darnay Darnay, marriage Renounces, family
Darnay, love
Banker
Wine-shop
Knits
Servant
Grave robber
Lucie

7. Characters Spy Solomon, Carton Wrong Uncle Nickname Letter Murders
Daughter
Main
Carton

8. Part 1
Three
Manette, together

9. Book One Contrast, change, sacrifice General, present Message Themes
Resurrection
Fate, guillotine,
fate, both
Death, not, rest

10. Book One, Chapter Two Pathetic, inner, change, character, beginning
Differs, not, not
Resurrection,
inverted, wrong,
ambiguous,
message

11. Book One, Chapters 3 and 4 Narrator, dead, dig, life, graves, slowly
Loyal, concern, sympathizes
Lucie, not, innocence
Foil, governess, normative
Darkness, love

12. Book 1, Chapter 5 Code, danger, organized, set Blood Change Together
not

13. Book 1, Chapter 6 Rescues, supernatural Light Female, connected
England, France
Mirror, mirror
Dark
Good
Unity
quick

14. Book 2, Chapter 1 Mirror Bank, prisons, death, prison Lower, backwards
Guillotine
Foreshadows, death

15. Book 2, Chapters 2-4 Courts - death - Darnay Redeemer - unable -love
- powerful
Love
- darker

16. Book 2, Chapters 5-6 - control - Lion - credit - “Memory” + Carton
Godparents
- blonde

17. Book 2, Chapters 7-10 - excess - water + life Taxes - cold - mirror
- cupid
- love
- mental

18. Book 2, Chapters 11-14 - Lucie - not - Carton - cries Tells - Catholic
- not, better
- personality

19. Book 2, Chapters 15-24 - water - hair, hatred - Fate - reformed
Daughter,
combines
- cleanse
Itself
- Four, Armageddon
- magnetic, France

20. Book 3, Chapters 1-5 - family - vengeance - redemption, love Why
Trusts
- child
Powerless
- ironic
Opposite
Evil, lower

21. Book 3, Chapters 6-12 Parallel - equal Inverted - not - insanity
- dark
- lost
- power
- Arthur

22. Book 3, Chapters 13-14
Christ
- “sins”
Justice
- never

23. Themes- Resurrection - Alexander + Emotionally + forgiveness
- Charles Darnay
+ three
+ sacrificial death
+ memory

24. Themes- The Necessity of Sacrifice
- Sydney Carton
+ Christ-figure
- sins
- live
- Charles Darnay
+ comforts, old life
+ his safety
+ honor, health

25. Themes- Love vs. Hate, Love
- family
1. life
- Romantic
- friends
> Darnay
+ vengeance
- bond

26. Themes- Love vs. Hate, Hate
- Revolution
+ Symbol
+ families
- Defarges
- aristocrats
- conquers

27. Motifs
Doubles
Darkness ?
Life
- Bastille

28. Symbols
- blood
- freedom
- foreshadows
- die
- fate
+ three
- cruelty