FINAL PROJECT: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

By
Charles Dickens
a. CHARACTERS
Describe the role and importance of the following characters in the story. Depict their
main characteristics:
Doctor Manette:
Dickens uses Doctor Manette to illustrate one of the dominant motifs of the novel: the
essential mystery that surrounds every human being. Manette undergoes a drastic change
over the course of the novel. He is transformed from an insensate prisoner who
mindlessly cobbles shoes into a man of distinction.
Lucie Manette:
Lucie is the daughter of Dr. Alexandre Manette. She is wise beyond her years, unfailingly
kind, and loving. Her love and protection of her father is what attracts Charles Darnay to
her.
Monsieur Defarge:

Madame Defarge:
 a wine shop owner in Saint Antoine, Paris is the antagonist, or adversary in A Tale of Two
Cities by Charles Dickens. In his novel about the French Revolution, a period of political
and social upheaval that began in 1789 and ended in 1799. A symbol of vengefulness and
revolutionary excess, Madame Defarge sits outside her Paris wine shop endlessly knitting
a scarf that is
Jarvis Lorry:
Jarvis Lorry develops from a purely pragmatic, business-like figure into an intensely loyal
and devoted protector who becomes an extension of the Manette-Darnay family. When
he first reunites with Lucie, Jarvis claims that “I had no feelings and that all relationships I
hold with my fellow-creatures are mere business relations.” Lorry is certainly a devoted
and diligent employee: when he decides to make a dangerous journey to Paris on behalf
of the bank
Miss Pross:
Miss pross is one of the most representative character of the story, he is the support of
Lucie ( the daughter of the doctor manette) she was in fact a unselfish friend and a litlle
bad humor.
b. PLOT OVERVIEW: Summarize the story with your own words:
this story happens in france, is about a men who is private of his freedom, this fact is
become a challenge for the britanic gentleman who know the story and try to get the man
with him to England, the man who stay the jail of bastilla didnt have a previous judgment.
c. KEY QUESTIONS:
1) Why is Charles Darnay acquitted at his English trial?
There are not explication for his acquitted, the doctor get out of the jail without
previous explication after 2 decades of stay in that place.

2) How does Madame Defarge die

Madame defarge´s death by a bullet from her own gun ( she dies in a scuffle with miss
pross)

3) Why does Charles Darnay return to France after his marriage?

He decides to go back to France in order to intervene on behalf of Gabelle and perhaps
even contribute to the revolutions effort to achieve justice and equality.

4) Why was Dr. Manette imprisoned?

He was arreste don false charges after being lured from his home.

5) Who kills the Marquis d’Evremonde?

The marquis is killed by one of the revolutionary figures.

6) How is A Tale of Two Cities a critique of English society?

In a tale of two cities , Dickens uses his critique of both the conditions leading up to the
revolution, and the revolution itsef as a warming to his englis audience, this story serves
as a cautionary warning to the english nobility not to become complacent.
7) How would you define the style of the autor?
Dickens use a critique to tell the story about the revolution, is a new style for the
audience between the characters and the things that happens in france.

d. ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL

Analyze and interpret the following components in the novel by Dickens:
Setting (Time): _the story happens in a modern decade in france ( 1700´s),
Setting (Place): A lot of the facts happens in france, parís, London and england.
Protagonist: the doctor manette is the principal in this story.

Major Conflict
The conflict is based on the revolution that happen in france, the injustices and a lot of
this that the government do to the people.

Rising Action  
The acquitted without judgenment, the injustices that the government do, the dies.
Climax  the suspense of the story with the die, that end in a revolution.
Falling Action  
At the end of the novel, Sidney Carton is executed at the guillotine along with many other
french prisoners, Dickens end the novel with imagining what he might have said. This
hypothetical farewell speech allows carton to look ahead and envision future.
Important quotes explained: Explain with your own words the following quotes.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season
of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct
to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. . . .
This was a age with a lot of troubles in every ambit, the age that become in the next step
for the humanity on social and political things. This means the development of the world.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that
profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great
city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that
every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the
hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imagin-ings, a secret to the heart
nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this.
Every human has his own secrets and this is the based of everything. The world Will
always have their own thoughts, secrets and visions of the life and this is not a mistake.
The mystery Will move on in us.

The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of
Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled. It had stained many hands, too, and many
faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes. The hands of the man who sawed
the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her
baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again. Those
who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the
mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a
night-cap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees—
blood.

Moral and teachings

The world is always in continue development, and the government that do bad things to
the people is always condened in a revolution way, the best ways to resolve the troubles is
the dialogue in peace without war.