Charles Darnay

Charles Darnay, a young adult living in England or a French aristocratic? The answer is both, Charles Darnay is a important character from A Tale of Two Cities and also a well grounded, caring and honest man. "-I would abandon it and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and pain?(Dickens 95)". This first quote shows how he is well grounded and has good morals. The "it" in the quote is referring to wealth and money and he is saying how that is not important and he would rather live somewhere else and be happy and content, which you don't need money to be.  My next quote portrays Darney's caring side "I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestly, devotedly.(Dickens 101). This shows how he cares very much for Lucie and how he is truly devoted and loyal to her. "I wish it, that I may the better deserve your confidence and have no secrets from you.(Dickens 104)" This last quote shows how Charles is honest and straight forward with wanting to tell lucie's father his secret and not keep anything from him. Also in this drawing the two objects I associated with him were money and a heart. The money and coins represented how he was an aristocratic and had a lot of money. The heart showed how he is looking for love, which he believes he has found with lucie. Both of these things, along with his characteristics I believe help to portray him as the man he is.

A Tale Of Two Cities Light vs. Dark

In a tale of two cities Charles Dickens uses darkness and light to the set the time of hopefulness in Dr.Manettes and Lucy's relationship. "... a little more light here. You can bear a little more?(Dickens 30)". In this quote Dr.Mannete is being asked if it is ok to let a little more light into the room he is in. Before he was sitting in darkness which in my opinion symbolizes his time in prison when he was depressed. The light they are letting in I think is a symbol of hope or in other words Lucy his daughter who is there to free her farther from his depressed state. In other words she is the light at the end of the tunnel. My next quote "darkness had fallen on him in its place (Dickens 32)" also uses darkness to represent Dr.Manettes past. This quote shows how bad his lonely years in jail were and how those were dark times for him. "On her fair young face that looked as though she passed like a moving light(Dickens 32). This last quote is describing Dr. Manettes savor, his daughter. Lucy is compared with light to show how he is looking to her even though he hardly knows her to help him  get out of the darkness which he seems sure to do. Throughout the first moments of their relationship light and darkness is being used to give the tone of hope.

The wine of war

     In a tale of two cities by Charles Dickens wine is dropped and spilled on a street outside a winery. This wine spilling though, is much more then that it is foreshadowing to the bloody French Revolution that is soon going to start. "All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness to run to the spot and drink the wine."(Dickens 20). I think this first quote foreshadows to the war because as in this senario everyone's normal lives will be put on hold and the war will take over their lives, just like here when people ran to get to the wine and left their tasks behind them. My next quote shows how the war will never be forgotten and always leave a "stain" on those people affected by it. "The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine where it had spilled. It had stained many hands, too, and many faces and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes"(Dickens 21). Here the wine left a red stain on the street, like the upcoming war will leave marks on the battle field in which it takes place, the family's which it ruins and the countries which it tears apart. "The time was to come, when the wine too would be spilled on the street stones"(Dickens 22). This last quote I think most directly foreshadows the war because I believe it is referring to the blood that will shed from this upcoming war. Although the wine and war may be completely different things I think that in this situation they are much alike eachother.