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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens was a book written in 1859. Dickens uses his characters to show society. He also uses them as stereotypes to help move along the story. Miss Pross is one of those stereotypical characters. Just like Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Miss Pross is a strong woman figure who takes pride in caring for her ‘child’. Miss Pross, the nurse to Lucie, and the down fall to Madame Defarge, is a stereotypical nurse character because she follows the rules of the king and is totally devoted to protecting and caring for Lucie which also helps her move the story along.

A caregiver to a child is a rule follower in most situations. Miss Pross is no exception to that. In most stories like A Tale of Two Cities the nurse usually follows the rules. They are only broken if the nurse thinks that it would be better for the person or people that they are caring for. Miss Pross is characterized in this quote, “It preceded from Miss Pross, the wild red woman, strong of hand, whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover, and had ...

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