A Tale of Two Cities
In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens had described the period of preparations for a revolution filled with turmoil and chaos in France. Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton were the two characters that played important roles in the story. They were depicted as physically alike but possessed different personality, different reasons for their sacrifices and different ways of changes in their character developments through the Charles Dickens had developed these two characters as gentlemen with morals and golden hearts. Besides physically alike, they had few similarities in their personality.In the story, they resembled a straightforward attitude, and presented their true feeling to others. Charles Darnay in disgust of what his family had done stood up to his uncle and showed his resentment "...we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong." Sydney Carton loved Lucy for the first sight and decided to pledge his love to her. He asked nothing more of Lucy than to always remember how deeply he cared for her, and that he would make any sacrifice to her or anyone dear to her. They resembled big differences in their characteristics and appearances. Char
Charles Darnay after abandoned his name and his property led a simple and decent life. He emerged as a gentleman with a positive attitude, noble characteristic and a loving husband but because of the animosity of the Defarge toward him, many times they tried to arrest him made him become pessimistic, weak, and losing hope in life. Neither of them is better or worse than the other; they both had weakness and morality in their personality. He had renounced his heritage and inheritance "I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. I care for no man on earth and no man on earth cares for me. Even though their sacrifices came from moral causes but they had particularly different reasons for their decisions. " He threw his life away, and put himself into a depressing mood that he though he could never escape from. Sydney Carton, on the other hand was carefree about what people thought of him or the way he dressed. Slowly at first, realizing who he was, and making the conscious choice to change. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known. He started to have a positive attitude toward life and show some noble characteristics. Charles Darnay had promised his mother to redress the wrongs done by his family. Even though they had changed during the book but they had never done anything bad to other people around them but tried to find the true meaning and purpose in their lives.
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