Tale Of Two Cities Rhetorical Analysis

Resurrection Relates to Three Metaphors in A Tale of Two Cities The French Revolution, starting in 1789, was a historical period in which the peasants revolt against the nobles because of the malicious actions of the French aristocracy. In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Dickens shows the cruelty of the nobility while sympathizing with the peasants, but he also pities the nobles when the mob of peasants, acting like animals, become what the nobles used to be, self-absorbed killers. Throughout the French Revolution, which is portrayed in the novel, Dickens displays that resurrection is possible for the peasants and nobles through the use of metaphors. The French Revolution, a time of chaos and bloodiness, allows for resurrection in

Dickens alleges that “Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal” (65). Carton is referred to as a jackal because jackals are scavengers; these animals let the lion eat all the food first, and then the jackal will eat the remains. Stryver is the lion; he is missing the intellect to extract the essence for cases. Carton stays up from ten at night until three in the morning drinking and working for Stryver. Carton gets all the information, while Stryver receives all the credit. Sydney Carton is a man in the shadows, and everyone believes he is a depressed alcoholic except for Lucie Manette. Carton loves Lucie, and he adds to her, “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul” (115). Carton is freeing his soul by telling her that he is grateful that she does not love him because he is not worthy. Carton believes he cannot change for the better; he is set in his ways, and he cannot save himself because of his fate. Carton is selfless and fragile when he expresses his feelings to Lucie, which shows how amazing he is. Carton’s delicateness conveys when Dickens claims, “there were tears in his eyes. There were tears in his voice too” (115). Carton informs Lucie, “for you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything” (117). Dickens foreshadows that Carton will save Darnay’s life by dying for him out of his love for Lucie, which is Carton’s purpose in life. Carton is similar to “an eddy that turned and turned-purposeless, until the stream absorbed it, and carried it on to the sea” (244). An eddy goes nowhere until the stream, which straightens it our as a purpose, captures it. The purpose takes him to an end, which is peace, death, or redemption. Carton has always been going nowhere, but now he has a purpose to save Darnay and