Resurrection In A Tale Of Two Cities

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Essay IV
Accounts of ‘Resurrection’ in A Tale of Two Cities Resurrection is a popular theme among many books. In books such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, new life is a theme that becomes evident through death or at the end. In A Tale of Two Cities, however, resurrection is a reoccurring theme from the very beginning of the story until the very end. Dickens’s uses the theme “recalled to life” to shape characters and the plot. Three characters in particular experience their own resurrections. The revival of Dr. Manette, the rescues of Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton’s self-sacrifice and foreshadowing demonstrate Dickens’s motif, “recalled to life”. The first encounter with the theme “recalled to life” is when Jarvis Lorry receives a note on his way to Dover. The note instructs Lorry to wait in Dover for Miss Lucie Manette, and Lorry responds with the, “Recalled to Life”. Lorry meets Lucie at the Royal George Hotel in Dover where he discloses the information that her father, Dr. Manette, is alive. With this news, Lorry and Lucie travel to a St. Antoine where Dr. Manette is currently living. When
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Manette and Charles Darnay because his own resurrection comes from his death. Carton sacrifices himself for. Darnay because of his love for Lucie. On the way to his death, Carton comforts a little seamstress who is also to be killed. The seamstress almost blows Sydney’s cover because she recognizes that it is not Darnay. When her number is called, she kisses Sydney goodbye. As Sydney walks to the Guillotine, he imagines that Lucie will have a son and name him after Sydney. Sydney decides that before his death, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known” (Dickens 390). Through Sydney Carton’s death, he ‘resurrects’ because he saved a ‘more valuable life than