How Does Sydney Carton Change

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A reader’s perception of a character can be influenced differently by the actions that are displayed by character. People around that character can change the actions and feelings towards their surroundings. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens portrays this change through Sydney Carton. Charles Dickens utilizes the character Sydney Carton as a person of change being the unexpected hero at the end of the novel.

Lucie had a big impact on Sydney Carton’s actions and feelings towards his perspective of the world. Sydney had been displayed as a drunkard early in the story but later through the novel he reveals his true changed self. “And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire... a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.”. Sydney had displayed his renewed self through this quote. Charles Dickens portrayed him as a pile of ash and then rekindled him back into a blazing fire. A reader could see the difference that occurred in Sydney personality through the emotions he had displayed. “Readers experience in the character of Sydney Carton a profound sense of renewal, a sense that hope can be rekindled with a heroic sacrifice, that the world can be made better. ..” With his change of heart towards the world
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After Sydney’s reveal of his true feelings for Lucie, Sydney showed the readers completely different colors of his personality. “Readers experience in the character of Sydney Carton a profound sense of renewal, a sense that hope can be rekindled with a heroic sacrifice, that the world can be made better....” Through Sydney’s sacrifice in the end the feeling that was given was universal. Sydney Carton had changed himself to a major sacrificial piece in the