Describing the goals, dreams, and motives behind a main characters:
Charles Darnay is a French aristocrat by birth, and he chooses to live in England because he cannot bear to be associated with the cruel injustices of the French social system. Darnay displays great virtue in his rejection of the snobbish and cruel values of his uncle, the Marquis Evremonde. He exhibits a admirable honesty in his decision to reveal to Dr. Manette his true identity as a member of the infamous Evremonde family. So, to prove his courage in his decision to return to Paris at great personal risk to save the imprisoned Gabelle.
Sydney Carton was a alcoholic lawyer who works with Stryver. Carton has no real prospects in life and doesn't seem to be in interested to any. However, fall in love with Lucie, and his feelings for her eventually transform him into a prospective man. At first, you will think that Carton has opposite situations and personality, but in the end Carton morally overcome the man to whom he bears a striking physical resemblance.
Lucie Manette is a young French woman who grew up in England, she was raised as a helper of Tellson's Bank because her parents were known as to be dead. Her love has the power to hind her family together, in the book often called her as the "golden thread." Futhermore, her love has the power to transform those around her. It enables her father to be "recalled to life," and it sparks Carton's development from a "jackal" into a hero.
Dr. Manette is Lucie's father, he was imprisoned for 19-years as a prisoner in the Bastille. In the beginning of the book, he does nothing but make shoes, a hobby that he adopted to distract himself form the tortures of prison. As he overcomes his past, he proves to be a loving father who prizes his daughter's happiness above all things.
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