Charles Darnay

Charles Darnay

       In my opinion I think that Charles Darnay is a loving, respectful, and regretful kind of man. To start off, Darnay is regretful because he thinks his Family has done wrong because they sided with the French. He wishes he could change his French name. He wants nothing to do with the French. He also doesn't want to be part of a family that causes him harm. Darnay is respectful because he does not stick his nose into other people's business. He only worries about himself and nobody else. I think I would be able to trust him with anything. This leads me to my next point. Darnay could be trusted with love. He is a very loving person and he is not afraid to share his feeling no for someone else. Dickens says, to these days when it's mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man had invariably gone one way- Charles Darnay's way- the way of the love of a woman" (Dickens 99). Darnay does not pressure himself into love. He lets love take him places.
           
  

Light vs. Dark

Lightness v.s. Darkness 

          Dickens uses light and dark as the tone of this chapter very well. He shows how Lucie is the light in the relationship between her and her father. Dickens says, "A broad ray of light fell into the garret, and showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labour"(Dickens 30). Dickens refers to Lucie as the light that is being let into the room. To show that the relationship is still new, Dickens says, "gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him. they were overclouded again, they were fainter, they were gone; but they had been there" (Dickens 31). Lucie and Dr. Manette now have to break that barrier to make this relationship natural. He shows how that barrier is equal to the darkness in this chapter. Dickens must have to accept the fact that he was "buried" for eighteen years. Dickens says, "Darkness had fallen on him in it's place" (Dickens 31). Dickens explains when Dr. Manette sees his daughter for the first time and he realizes that Lucie is not her wife. A weight, the darkness, is out into Dr. Manettes shoukders. He is seeing his daughter for the first time.

Wine Shop

       Dickens shows various ways of how this scene can foreshadow events in the future. As the cask spills Dickens says, "Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women"(Dickens 21). This direct quote shows that the poor would do anything to get something into their bodies. Dickens also says, "The wine was red wine , and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris"(Dickens 21). I believe that Dickens foreshadows that the wine represents the blood in the upcoming battle. Dickens lead me to this idea by saying, "scrawled upon a wall with his fingers dipped in muddy wine-less-BLOOD"(Dickens 22). He shows how the citizens picture the scene the same only with blood instead of wine.