With enough love anybody has the ability to do what they are driven to do. Love has many powers, especially the power to triumph over evil. In the novel, Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens he is able to demonstrate this through characterization. Through Miss Pross, Madame Defarge, and Sydney Carton readers are able to understand how love can motivate a person to prevent evil.
             People who are in love have something in common, aside from the obvious; the natural instinct of protecting their loved ones from harm. Miss Pross, Lucie Manette's governess, has brought Lucie up and looked after as if she was her own daughter. Miss Pross basically has a maternal love for Lucie. Miss Pross became very defensive when Madame Defarge, a radical of the French Revolution, came looking for Lucie and her family. Miss Pross is very aggressive with Madame Defarge: "I know that your intentions are evil and you may depend upon it, I'll Hold my own against them...I am your match" (358). Miss Pross immediately took a stance, for Lucie's safety, against the evil intentions of Defarge. Since Miss Pross was trying to delay Madame Defarge because Miss Pross knew "...the longer I keep you here, the greater hope there is for my Ladybird...I'll not leave a handful of that dark hair upon your head, if you lay a finger on me" (359). Miss Pross's primary task was to prevent Madame Defarge from discovering Lucie wasn't in the house, in hope of buying time for Lucie and her family as they flee from France.
             The Miss Pross, who had never struck a blow in her life, "seized her [Defarge] around the waist in both her arms, and held her tight...Madame Defarge's hands were at her bosom. Miss Pross looked up, saw what it was, struck at it, struck out a flash and a crash, and stood alone-blinded with smoke" (360). Because of Miss Pross's never-ending love for Lucie she k
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