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.