Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tale of Two Cities
- Characters
- Charles Darnay
- Sydney Carton
- Dr. Manette
- Lucie Manette
- Monsieur Defarge
- Madame Defarge
- Marquis
- Mr. Lorry
- Mr. Stryver
- Jerry Cruncher
- The Vengeance
- Themes
- Tyranny and Revolution
- revolutionaries add "or Death" to the liberty phase shows how just want to further their own needs, tyranny will eventually lead to revolution
- Fate and HIstory
- Mme. Defarge and Lucie represents the fates
- Sacrafice
- Charles sacrafices aristocracy to start a family
- Resurrection
- Jerry Cruncher is a resurection man, Manette is "recalled to life" by Lucie, Carton is sort of ressurected by feeling again
- Imprisonment
- The Bastille represents imprisonement, charles is put into La Force-parallel "five paces by four and a half"
- Symbols
- Wine
- symbolizes the revolution's intoxicating power, revolutionaries are drunk on power, also symbolizes blood- the grindstone and the wineshop
- Knitting
- Madame defarge- condems people to a deadly fate
- Golden Thread
- Lucie (her hair) brings people together and unites her family, gives them a better destiny, contrast to madame defarge's knitting
- Guillotine
- Becomes a religious symbol, wears around neck instead of cross
- Shoemaking
- Shows Manettes mental trauma from imprisonment
- Footsteps
- Lucie hears echoing footsteps, the footsteps of people coming into their lives,symbolizes fate