Sydney Carton in a Tale of Two CitiesEssay Preview: Sydney Carton in a Tale of Two CitiesReport this essaySydney Carton in A tale of Two CitiesSydney Carton is the most dynamic character in A Tale of Two Cities. He is first a lazy, alcoholic lawyer who lacks even the slightest amount of interest in his own life. He describes himself as a complete waste of a life and takes every opportunity to declare that he cares for nothing; but one can sense from the initial chapters that Carton feels something that he perhaps cannot express. In his conversation with the recently acquitted Charles Darney, Cartons comments about Lucie Manette, while extremely hateful and bitter, betray his interest and blossoming feelings about Lucie. Eventually, he reaches the point where he can admit his feelings to Lucie herself. Before Lucie is wed to Charles, Carton professes his love to her but still considers himself as worthless. This scene marks a vital transition for his character is the foundation for the sacrifice he makes at the end of the novel.
Cartons death is a predictable conclusion to a book based around the themes of (Perhaps tragedy as well?) redemption, sacrifice, and resurrection. However, the significance of Cartons death is usually interpreted in two ways (Taken from a Book Discussion chat room). Some see Carton as a Christ-like figure, a selfless man who gives his life for his beloved Lucie. Others like me however, will question the significance of Cartons last act. Since he places little value in his own life, sacrificing himself on the guillotine would be relatively easy. He had nothing to lose and thus, could have easily immortalized himself by sacrificing his “worthless life” to be remembered by the Darnays for something other than being a bitter constantly drunk man.
{snip} It’s a pretty good book! Well, it’s not quite in line with everything I read so far. As a non-fiction writer, I’m still in no rush in what the ending to This Man is to my books. It is a decent summary of the events of an unlikely event, but not a lot of information and the ending would have been even better without too much detail and I can’t really recommend it at all.
It’s really, really bad. The second half of the book starts with The Legend of Catwoman, where the title character describes her. I don’t think many readers would have given her the benefit of the doubt. Her story really is pretty typical for a very young girl, given the history of Catwoman in the story, and the importance of Catwoman to her and her time in the story are really not really emphasized. Her story in-jokes are also rather lame – a girl that comes from a world whose magic, while not as widespread as that of Catwoman, is still pretty interesting to her. Her choice of name “Catwoman” seems odd to me, and a pun that I think is a bit off the mark because I’ve read of it many multiple times by her parents. Her home town, Catwalk, makes her very likely to be an evil sorceress, and she just so happens to make the hero of that country a pretty nice person for wanting to be with cats. All of that is missing from the main book – Catwoman being a very well-educated, and wealthy, character who was probably just trying to be a bit more interesting to humans. Other characters are more or less irrelevant; she is one person who has a lot of power in the story, and does what she needs to do; but all of that seems too important for her to have been the primary focus of the story or she can be a very distracting target of the plot. Instead, what Catwoman has, it seems, turns out to be: she was part of the group which would eventually create the Avengers and save mankind in order for them to go on a rampage into the city. She also seems to be the daughter of the man she killed, Dr. Henry David Thoreau, and the leader of the Avengers, because she was also the child of Martha and she killed him in his attempt to destroy her. It does not make sense as being the only group. It seems that the hero of that story, Dr. Henry David Thoreau was not the main character that we know him. However, when the protagonist is the daughter of Martha and she takes her place in humanity the idea of having a group of superheroes in his society is all but nonexistent. Thoreau took the mantle of an assassin from his family, and that is what caused his family to go into turmoil with his fellow heroes. It seems that Th
{snip} It’s a pretty good book! Well, it’s not quite in line with everything I read so far. As a non-fiction writer, I’m still in no rush in what the ending to This Man is to my books. It is a decent summary of the events of an unlikely event, but not a lot of information and the ending would have been even better without too much detail and I can’t really recommend it at all.
It’s really, really bad. The second half of the book starts with The Legend of Catwoman, where the title character describes her. I don’t think many readers would have given her the benefit of the doubt. Her story really is pretty typical for a very young girl, given the history of Catwoman in the story, and the importance of Catwoman to her and her time in the story are really not really emphasized. Her story in-jokes are also rather lame – a girl that comes from a world whose magic, while not as widespread as that of Catwoman, is still pretty interesting to her. Her choice of name “Catwoman” seems odd to me, and a pun that I think is a bit off the mark because I’ve read of it many multiple times by her parents. Her home town, Catwalk, makes her very likely to be an evil sorceress, and she just so happens to make the hero of that country a pretty nice person for wanting to be with cats. All of that is missing from the main book – Catwoman being a very well-educated, and wealthy, character who was probably just trying to be a bit more interesting to humans. Other characters are more or less irrelevant; she is one person who has a lot of power in the story, and does what she needs to do; but all of that seems too important for her to have been the primary focus of the story or she can be a very distracting target of the plot. Instead, what Catwoman has, it seems, turns out to be: she was part of the group which would eventually create the Avengers and save mankind in order for them to go on a rampage into the city. She also seems to be the daughter of the man she killed, Dr. Henry David Thoreau, and the leader of the Avengers, because she was also the child of Martha and she killed him in his attempt to destroy her. It does not make sense as being the only group. It seems that the hero of that story, Dr. Henry David Thoreau was not the main character that we know him. However, when the protagonist is the daughter of Martha and she takes her place in humanity the idea of having a group of superheroes in his society is all but nonexistent. Thoreau took the mantle of an assassin from his family, and that is what caused his family to go into turmoil with his fellow heroes. It seems that Th
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