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Themes

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Resurrection/Redemption, Sacrifice, oppression, doubles (also a motif), social injustice, revolution, fate/coincidence

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Motifs

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Shadows, Imprisonment, Footsteps, Mobs

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The Woodman

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fate -

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The Farmer

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death - works at tumbrils, farm animals were in the carts currently, taking people to the

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Wine

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blood, pretty self explanatory

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Gorgon/stone faces

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the marquis, representing how the aristocrats never changed and him as well, that is why the chateau is stone

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St. Antoine - symbol

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one big group of revolutions, summoning up what the revolutionaries fought for

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Jackal - Lion

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Jackal is Carton - represents independence and the after life, doesn’t want to do anything with intelligence, follower do stuff for other people, bottom of food chain, lion -stryver is supior, head of the food chain, and eats Jackals

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Golden Thread

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Lucie, her hair is golden, she is. a positive inspiring force for others, and connects everyone in the book to each other

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Scarecrows

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Birds of fine song and feathers

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Knitting

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Sea

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Madame Defarge

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The Vengence

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Shoe bench

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Fire

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Fountain

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Blue Flies

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like flies around a dead body,

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Grindstone

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where people go to sharpen their swords, making people unhuman, like animals, savages, people stained with wine (blood) where people go to talk

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Footsteps

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people coming into their lives, then later on in the book, footsteps die forever - when carton die, echoing footsteps stuff from the past coming up again - fate and future, warning of something coming

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Shadows

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the vengeance being a shadow, darkness, danger, and things to, carton was hiding in

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Bastille

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1789 they stormed the Prison, Bastille is where Mannette was

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Chateau

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In France, marquis manchien that was burned down by 3rd estate, “The Chateau and all the race” made of stone to show marquis and how there is no change in the system, when it burns down, change is finally here.

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Tellson's Bank (London + Paris)
Paris, tellsons - belongs to aristocrat, thinks he is gonna die from revolutionaries and runs away in his cooks dress away from tellsons, large gate and courtyard (also where the grindstone is London - old fashioned, dark, ugly, cramped, very proud of their old-fashionednesss, people respect it because of its lack of change
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Gullitone
personified as "la" makes it feminine and Dickens has lots of metaphors for it, it makes the killing emotionless and automatic, human life becomes cheap, "wine being carried to la gullitone" darnary didnt even know what is was before he was about to get killed, people talk around the subject a lot
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Soho
A peacefull place
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Stryver's Office
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Defarge's Wine Shop
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Dover road
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Old Bailey
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La force
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Conciergerie
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Three estates
1st estate, clergy (born into), does not pay taxes TAKES UP 3% WITH 2ND ESTATE, 2nd estate, nobility + workers for gov. + own land, didn't have to pay most taxes like salt tax, 3rd Estate, everyone else - farmers, doctors, laborers, peasants, heavily taxed 97% BASICALLY EVERYONE
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Storming the Bastille
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Start + End dates of rev. AND action in the story
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major causes of revolution + "Reign of Terror"
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Charles Darnay
french exile in
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Dr. Alexandre Manette
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Lucie Manette
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Madame Defarge
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Sydney Carton
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Monsieur Defarge
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Mr. Jarvis Lorry
agent at tellsons bank, elderly, (78 in book 3!), neatly but quaintly dressed, befriends the manettes, preforms valuable services ex. - takes lucie and rescues the dr., etc.
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Miss Pross
a big, red-headed, mannish English women who serves as Lucie's nurse and protector, brother is Solomon (john basard) and kills madame Defarge
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Solomon Pross
John Barsard, ms. pross's brother, took all her money, police spy in england who also informs against Darnay and later a prison spy in. revolutionary france
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John Barsad
same person as soloman
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Jerry Cruncher
porter at tellsons, and mr. lorrys errand-man, resurection man (digs up graves, tried to dig up the grave of roger cly) rough, surly, comic figure,
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Young Jerry
son of Jerry cruncher, small, nasty version of his father, assits at tellsons with his dad, and wants to be a ressurection man
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Gabelle
steward of the evermonde, local tax collecter who is imprisoned in the revolution for being in connection to the family, he watched the chatue burn
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Darnay's parents (only a bit)
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Wood-sawyer + Mender of Roads
a man initiated to the revolutionary movement by the Defarges, is bloodthirsty, talked ans saw lucie (as wood sawyer) when she used to wait for Darnay, mender of the roads is the one who saw gaspard and reavled he killed the Marquis, also talks to carton (as woodsawyer) and invites him to see the guillotione
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St. Antoine - character
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Farmer and Woodman (characters)
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Little Lucie
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Gaspard
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Foulon
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Monseigneur in Town (hot chocolate)
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Evremonde, the Marquis (Darnay's Uncle)
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poor little seamstress
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Roger Cly
spy who testified against Darnay in court the 1st time, he faked his death, and there was a big scene about it with mobs, jerry tried to dig up his grave - turns out nothing was there - however John Barsard said that he personally burried him so it shows that he is lying because he wasnt actually dead
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The Vengeance - character
Madame Defarges shadow, had the drum, - keeping the pace of the revolution, very fierce and strong force, powerful,
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Mr. Stryver
The work partner of Carton, the lion, stern, strict, wanted to marry Lucie but when he went to lorry he totally shut him down.

English H (3 decks)

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