Middle
·
A
Plea
·
Has
trouble expressing love
Being
social meant coming over and chatting.
·
Carton
still wants to be a part of her family
·
Takes
backseat
·
He
is first person Little Lucie likes/holds out her arms to
o
He
cares about Little Lucie/Little Lucie cares about him
·
Lucie
defends Carton b/c Darnay think’s it’s weird
·
He’s
changing; not a bum; has attachment
o
Reaches
out
·
Foreshadows
sympathy (not pity) for Carton
End
·
Footsteps
Die Out Forever
o
The
seamstress: another person to be loved/loves him (equal need)
o
Take
away fear of dying
o
Changed
demeanor
o
Real
action. He goes and does things.
o
PRIDE
– he comes knowing what he’s about to do.
o
Little
bit of love goes a long way
Ms.
Coffey reads critic.
·
One
man is condemned by society, and one man is condemned by himself. (Darnay vs.
Carton)
·
Two
sides of the same coin.
·
Though
Darnay is held responsible for the rape, but Carton dies for it.
·
Guillotine
is feminine.
o
Shadows
of Lucie and the guillotine
Charles
gets one woman, Sydney gets the other…
·
“Sydney
has been able to calculate himself out of the maze because he understands it.
He understands the Terror…Sydney retrieves his life by giving it.”
o
Sydney
understands the hate, the terror, and the rage because he is internally angry
at himself.
o
No
one else could understand, but Carton.
Carton
is Jesus
o
Paradox
o
His
life is remembered and loved
o
Resolves
other people’s sins
o
Other
people’s pasts haunt him
England vs. France Conversation
·
Burglaries/robberies/riot
(before a revolution in England)
·
France:
cynical, sarcastic, brutal
·
England:
also sarcastic, corrupt
o
New
parallels upon second read
o
Not
as opposite as we think
·
Almost
like people…female
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