Light, Truth and Love in A Tale Of Two Cities

             "For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light" (Psalms 36.9). Light itself is invisible and everything without light is invisible. But when light touches objects, people for instance, the truth is shown and we understand that person better. Without light in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, we would not be able to see the true form of the main characters and would not know what makes them who they are. Each theme has a different meaning to each character and what they do in this book. Throughout this novel we also see close connections between certain couples, what represents the life of the people, and the symbolism between the sacrifices in new and old religion played out.
             From the beginning to the end, this book uses doubles as a way to explain more about another character through what we called were pairs and poles. The pair and pole that could be considered the most important couple in this novel is Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay. In this case these to people are both pairs and poles. Whenever Carton looked into a mirror, he saw Darnay and what he wanted to be. They also shared the same love for Lucie, but Carton's love was stronger because she loved him for who he was and no one else could see that. But they are sometimes represented together as light and dark because Carton has no feelings inside for anything. Next are Miss Pross who is a very loving person and Madame Defarge who is full of hate. "Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate[.]" Miss Pross loves Lucie and protects her from Madame Defarge, who hates Lucie and tries to kill her. There is two sides to Dr. Manette, essentially it comes to good and evil. The "good" side is a very smart, brilliant and well kept doctor. The other side is "evil" and is not all there and thinks he is a tower who makes shoes and "deals in soles/souls" (Class Notes).
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