ANALYZING NOVEL “A TALE OF TWO CITIES” by CHARLES DICKENS

Character

Analyze the Character of Mr. Jarvis Lorry

Categories	Passage from text	What this passage made me feel or think about Mr. Jarvis Lorry
Descriptive passage	Mr. Lorry was seen to be a gentleman of sixty, neatly dressed in dark clothes which were pretty well worn but very well kept.(page 10).	It told us that Mr. Lorry is an old man who always neatly dressed.
	He arranged to stay away from Tellson’s for the first time in his life, and sat by the window of the doctor’s room. (page 55)	He’s a loyal friends, he willing to stay away from Tellsons’s just to take care of the doctor.
Dialog	‘ I belong to Tellson’s Bank, and am going to Paris on business. May I read this?’ (page 9)	He works at Tellson’s Bank.
	‘ But this is my father’s story, and I think that when I was left an orphan, by my mother dying two years after my father, it was you who brought me to England.’ (page 12)	He is the one who helped Lucie and he was the one who brought her to England.
	‘.... But your father has been found. Greatly changed – but we must hope for the best – but alive. He has been taken to the house of an old serbant in Paris, and we are going there, I to make sure that it is indeed he, and you to bring him back to life, love, and comfort.’ (page 13)	He is the one who helped Lucie found his father
Action	He bowed to Miss Manette. (page 12)	He has a good manner, he bow to a young lady which her old is so far from him.
	Then, as she did not answer, he looked down with alarm to find that she had fainted.(page 14)	He really cares about the others.
	Mr. Lorry decided to watch him night and day, without seeming to.(page 55)	He really cares about Dr. Manette.

Analyze the Character of Lucie Mannete

Categories	Passage from text	What this passage made me feel or think about Lucie Mannete
Descriptive Passage	Mr. Lorry could just see a young lady of no more than seventeen, standing waiting, still in her riding cloak to meet him. (page 11)	It shows that Lucie is still a teenager in that day.
	As he looked at her slight, pretty figure, golden hair and questioning blue eyes, he was reminded he had held in his arms while crossing channel one cold winter when the sea ran high.(page 11)	Lucie is good looking teenager.
	So clearly did her face show pity for the prisoner and her horror of the scene (page 23)	She really have mercy thought to others.
	The household was united by love, and by the golden thread of Lucie’s gentle kindness and help to her father, her husband, and her child. (page 60)	She’s a smart wife and a great woman.
Dialog	‘god bless you you for your kindness Miss Manette ,’(page 45)	She is a kind girl.
	‘ I am deeply happy in my love for charles, and his for me. But if I thought my marriage would part us by even a few streets, I should be more unhappy than I can tell you. Do you believe, that no new affections and duties of mine will ever come between us?’ (page 52)	She’s happy of her marriage but she was afraid to leave her father whom she found not so long ago.
	‘ She was very pleased to have your message, when I gave it to her.’ (page 30)	Lucie was really happy got a message from Darnay.
Action	She curtsied, as if to show how much she felt him to be older and wiser than herself (page 12)	She has a good manner.
	Her hand held his tightly, and she trembled so much that Mr. Lorry began again. (page 13)	She’s afraid of her father.
	And when anyone spoke of his long years of suffering in prison, only his daughter could charm away the black thoughts that rose in his mind. (page 28)	There none who can make Dr. Manette feel live again, the only one who could make him happy just his daughter.

Analyze the Character of Doctor Alexander Mannete

Categories	Passage from text	What this passage made me feel or think about Doctor Alexander Mannete
Descriptive Passage	The white-haired man raised his head and after a long silnce replied, “yes-I am working”(page 19)	He is an old man now, his hair was turn to be white.
	The faintness of his voice was pitiful and dreadful. It was the faintness of loneliness and disuse, like the last feeble echo of a sound made long ago. (page 19)	His condition was really bad when he found.
	Her father sat silent, with his head bent , breathing a little quickly, but otherwise seeming calm.(page 43)	He is a calm person.
	Calmly, firmly, but in a low tone, the doctor asked about the days lost to him, and whether Lucie knew of them, he was relieved to find that she did not.( page 57)	He is a calm person.
Dialog	“why, yes, like your father. And , like Dr. Manette, he was well known in Paris, where I looked after his business affairs- oh ! twenty years ago. He married an English lady”(page 12)	Dr. Manette is a famous one in Paris
	‘ You are not a shoemaker by trade,’ said Mr. Lorry. ‘ No – no –‘ said the man. ‘ I – I – learned it here. I asked leave to – with great difficulty they let me. I have made shoes ever since,’ and he turned to his work again, with a weary sound. (page 19)	Doctor Manette isn’t a shoemaker.
	“Dr. Manette , do you remember nothing of me? Mr. Lorry laid his hand on Defarge’s arm as the workman dropped his unfinished shoe. ‘ Don’t you remember an old servant?look at him, look at me , do not an old banker, old times, come to your mind?”(page 19)	Dr. Mannet has to be really old, he remind nothing.
	“citizens ! this is a fraud. The prisoneris husband to my daughter, who is dearer to me than life!”(page 94)	He’s a brave man, and a great father.
Action	But his softened tone encouraged his daughter, who held his arm and spoke, and begging him to think of and believe in, a happier future. Little by little he listened more carefully as she held him in her arms as if he had been a child. Then he wept, a sight so touching that those watching hid their eyes. (page 21)	Doctor Manette soon realized if Lucie is her daughter
	He studied much , worked hard and slept little, yet was always cheerful.(page 42)	He is a hard worker.
	The doctor was telling his grandchild a fairy story, and Lucie was more at ease than she had been.	Dr. Manette is a kind grandfather.

Analyze the Character of  Monsieur Ernest Defarge 

Categories	Passage from text	What this passage made me feel or think about Monsieur Ernest Defarge
Descriptive Passage	He was a thick-set man of thirty. (page 15)	He is a man about thirty, not so old but not so young.
	He had curling dark hair, and good eyes, and looked good-humoured on the whole , but was plainly a man of strong resolution and set purpose. (page 15)	He’s an ambitious one but he could hide it well. As well as his looking physically.
	But Defarge was troubled. He did not wish to harm the doctor and his family further, and had watched them with pity. (page 100)	He was a good man but he just could do nothing.
Dialog	“my husband,” said Madame Defarge,” is a good Republican, and bold, but he has his weakness, he pities this doctor. “(page 106)	He has merciful heart but he don’t do something to show his mercy, he just feel pity and do nothing.
Action	Darnay said that he wished to send a message to Mr. Lorry, but Defarge sternly refused to help in any way, and Darnay’s pride being touched, he said no more. (page 76)	he’s unkind to Darnay because he didn’t want to help Darnay, although just to send a message.

Analyze the Character of Charles Darnay

Categories	Passage from text	What this passage made me feel or think about Charles Darnay
Descriptive Passage	The prisoner was a young man of about twenty-five , Charles Darnay. He was tall and handsome, plainly dressed in dark grey, with his dark hair tied back in a ribbon. (page 22)	He is a young and good looking man, and his age is about 25.
	The young gentleman (‘the prisoner’, the judge corrected her) had come aboard, and had been so kind as to help her to place her father (whom the prisoner saw to be weak) in the most sheltered and comfortable spot. (page 25)	He is a kind one.
	Darnay had settled in England and was now well-known as a teacher of the French language, in these days he would have been a professor. He had expected to work hard, and had done so, and so had become prosperous. (page 42)	Darnay is a hard worker, he’s been a teacher, although he’s belong to aristocrat family but he choose his own way.
Dialog	“that I believe our name is more hated than any in France. even in my father’s time we hurt everyone who came between us and our pleasure and that time was equally yours, as his twin brother and joint her. His death left me bound to an order of things that is frightful to me. I must try to obey the last request of my dear mother, to have mercy, and to put wrong rights”(page 40)	He’s a part of the family who mostly hated in paris because of their cruelity.
	“you are polite enough to say so as a fashion of speech, but I mean it more seriously. You remember once when I was more drunk than- than usual”(page 59)	Darnay is a polite one.
Action	He decided to tell neither Lucie nor her father. Lucie would be spared the pain of parting, and her father would not have time to brood over old wrongs. Indeed much that he had left undone had been left because he wished to spare the doctor unhappy memories. (page 71)	Darnay didn’t want to tell Lucie and her father that he wants to save Gabelle because they will be afraid of him.

Analyze the Character of Sidney Carton

Categories	Passage from text	What this passage made me feel or think about Sidney Carton
Descriptive Passage	Mr. Carton, he who looked so like the prisoner, continued to look at the ceiling while everyone moved about.(page 27)	Physically, Carton look like Darnay.
	‘yes, I will,’ said Carton, in a manner so careless as to be almost rude.(page 27)	He have careless manner that almost to be rude.
	Darnay spoke of Sidney Carton as a problem of carelessness. He spoke not at all unkindly, but as anyone might who saw Carton as he showed himself. (page 59)	He’s got a problem, its careless manner.
Dialog	Mr. Carton touched his arms and asked ‘ how is the young lady?’(page 27)	It show us that Carton pay attention to the young lady (miss Manette) and he cares about her.
	‘ When I ask you to go out of the door, tell me it is madness! Change your coat for mine; shake out your hair like mine!’ And with a strength not of this world, he forced the changes on the prisoner. (page 104)	Carton wants Darnay to be free, and he willingness to take his place in the prison.
	‘ Are you dying for him?; she whispered. ‘ And his wife and child. Hush!’ (page 105)	Carton wants Darnay and his family lived happy, and he is willingly to die for them.
Action	The speaker was Sidney Carton, and he stood beside Jerry as carelessly as if he had been at the old bailey. (page 89)	Sidney Carton is a carelessly one.
	When he was alone, Carton looked at himself closely in a mirror. Why did he like this man who looked so like what he once was, and might still have been? Darnay had been tenderly pitied by Miss Manette – surely, thought Carton, he must hate the fellow. (page 31)	Carton loves Lucie Manette. He should hate the fellow who had been pitied by miss Manette, but he doesn’t hate him.

CONFLICT

Conflict between Charles Darnay and Sidney Carton        

This conflict happen because of they both love the same woman , its Lucie Mannete, but Lucie paid attention to Darnay.

Categories	Passage from text	What this conflict tell about
Descriptive	He had loved Lucie Manette from the hour of his danger. He had never heard so sweet a voice, nor seen so tenderly beautiful face, but he had not yet spoken to her of his love. (page 42)	Darnay love Miss Manette.
Dialog	“my greatest wish is to forget that I belong to it. It has no good in it for me-nor for it so we are not alike in that way. Indeed I begin to think we are not really much alike, you and I” (page 29)	Carton doesn’t think if they both really alike so much.
	“you know what I want to say, Dr.Manette. I love your daughter dearly and devotedly. If ever there was love in this world, I love her. You have loved yourself;let you old love speak for me” (page 43)	Darnay ask permission to Lucie’s father to marriage his daughter.
	“if you will hear me a little more, all you can do for me is done. I wish you to know that the sight of you with your father has stirred old voices urging me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. A dream, all a dream, but I wish you to know that you were the cause of it”(page 46)	Carton told Lucie that he fall in love with her.
	“politeness again! But I can’t forget it so easily, and a light answer doesn’t help me to forget it”(page 59)	Carton remembered what Darnay had answered when they have dined long time ago and he felt disappointed of Darnay’s answer
	“if it was a ligh answer,” said Darnay, “I beg your forgiveness for it. I only wish to turn a slight thing, which to my surprise seems to trouble you, aside. Good heaven, I had more important thing to remember the great service you did me”(page 59)	Darnay says sorry to Carton if his answer make him hurt, he doesn’t mean to makein that way, and he promise to remember all Carton’s kindness to him,
	‘”When I ask you to go out of the door, tell me it is madness! Change your coat for mine; shake out your hair like mine!” And with a strength not of this world, he forced the changes on the prisoner. (page 104)	Carton decided to replace Darnay as the prisoner who will be executed soon because he believe Lucie will happy if Darnay stand beside her.
Action	Mr. Carton, he who looked so like the prisoner, continued to look at the ceiling while everyone moved about. But when Miss Manette’s head drooped he was the first to see, and to say, ‘ Look to the young lady! Help to take her out!’ (page 27)	He paid attention to miss Mannete, it shows that he cares about her.
	When he was alone, Carton looked at himself closely in a mirror. Why did he like this man who looked so like what he once was, and might still have been? Darnay had been tenderly pitied by Miss Manette – surely, thought Carton, he must hate the fellow. (page 30	Carton felt jealous because Darnay have been pitied by Miss Manette, he should hate him but he couldn’t hate him don’t know why.

Conflict between Charles Darnay against Defarge and The Revolutioners

The conflict happen because of Charles Darnay is an Evremonde.

Categories	Passage from text	What this conflict tell about
Descriptive	But through the doctor tried hard to get Darnay set free or at least brought to trial, public opinion, like a tide, ran too strongly against him. The King and The Queen were tried and beheaded; the Republic of Liberty,Equality,Fraternity,or Death fought for victory or death against the whole of Europe. There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no measurement of time (page 82)	it describe how very cruel the republic patriots when they struggled for their victory and it makes Darnay fears so much, and Doctor Manette tried to escape Darnay
Dialog	“citizen, Defarge,” said an officer in charge of some registers, “is this the emigrant Evremonde?”, “this is the man”, “where is your wife,Evremonde?” (page 75)	Defarge ask Darnay where Lucie was.
	‘no doubt. You are to go , Evremonde, to the prison of La Force’(page 75)	They accused Darnay to the prison by no reason.
	‘Just heaven !’ Exclaimed Darnay. ‘ Under what law, for what crime? I have come here of my own will, in answer to appeal of a fellow- countryman’(page 75)	Darnay try to argue.
	‘ citizen Evremonde,’ said the first,’you are again a prisoner of the Republic’. The four Stood round Darnay, who could only ask why he was again a prisoner.(page 87)	Darnay was accused withaout no reason, and he’s been sent to prison again after his freed.
Action	Darnay said that he wished to send a message to Mr. Lorry , but Defarge sternly refused to help in any way, and Darnay’s pride being touched, he said no more.(page 76)	Defarge didn’t want to give any help to Darnay.
	The judges asked by whom Darnay was accused? ‘ three voices. Ernest Defarge. Therese Defarge, his wife. And- Alexandre Manette, doctor’(page 94)	They had planned it before to against Darnay so he’ll going to be in the guillotine.

Conflict between Charles Darnay and Marquis Evremonde (his uncle)

Its happen because they got different view.

Categories	Passage from text	What this conflict tell about
Descriptive	The Marquis greeted him in a courtly manner, but they didn’t shake hands (page 39)	They not warm each other.
Dialog	“I have come back,sir, on that sacred quest which took me away. It took me into danger of death-indeed for all I know you may have worked to give my affairs a more suspicious look” (page 40)	Darnay tells his uncle that he intervene his case.
	“however that may be, I know you would stop me by any means” said the nephew with deep distrust (page 40)	Darnay know that his uncle try to block his way.
	“It is possible”, said the uncle, “but these little aids to power are more difficult to get these days. There is even some question of our right of life or death over the people on our estates” (page 40)	Marquis said arrogantly that his rich power can take the right of life or death over the people in his estate.
	We have so used our position”, said Darnay gloomily, that I believe our name is more hated than any in France. Even in my father’s time we hurt everyone who came between us and our pleasure; and that time was equally yours, as his twin brother and joint her. His death left me bound to an order of things that is frightful to me. I must try to obey the last request of my dear mother, to have mercy, and to put wrongs right.” (page 40)	Darnay say that what he has done is true.
Action	The Marquis greeted him in a courtly manner, but they didn’t shake hands (page 39)	He welcoming Darnay but in his way.

SETTING

Physical Setting

Physical setting	Categories	Passage from text	The setting tell about
Up Shooter’s Hill	Description	A mail coach struggled through deep mud, up Shooter’s Hill.(page7)	Up shooter hill is muddy way.
Miss Mannete’s room in the inn at Dover	Description	It was a large, dark room, only faintly lighted by two tall candles…(page 11)	Miss Mannete room in Dover is large , but low light.
The Old Bailey	Description	The Old Bailey is the year 1780 was gloomy, unhappy, cruel place; a court of law where harsh laws condemned even minor offenders to terrible punishments.(page 23)	Old Bailey is a cruel place.
The room which Dr. Mannete being isolated	Dialog	‘is he alone?’ whispered Mr. Lorry, as they climbed the difficult stairs to the fifth floor.(page 17)	Dr. mannete is placed in 5th floor. Which is it has a bad condition such as y dirty, rubbish everywhere and so on.
	Description	The staircase was in a very dirty, unhealthy condition. The rubbish of years rotted outside each door, and no fresh air ever found a way in.(page !7)
One hundred and five North Tower	Dialog	‘what is the meaning of one hundred and five , North Tower? asked Defarge. ‘sir , it is a cell.’(page 64)	It show us that one hundred and five north tower is a cell
	Description	Through gloomy cells where the lights of day had never shone, past heavy doors, dark dens and cages, down steep flights of steps , and up again…(page 64)	It has a bad condition.
		There was a small window high in the wall, and a small chimney , heavily barred. There was a stool, a table , and a straw bed , and four blackened walls.(page 64)
La Force	Dialog	‘no doubt. You are to go, Evremonde, to the prison of La Force.’(page 75)	It tell us that Darnay was to be sent in La Force prison.

Social Setting

Categories	Passage from text	The setting tell about
Descriptive	Saint Antonine was a miserable district of Paris. Poverty showed itself in every thin, ill-clothed figure, in the empty shelves of every shop, and in the wretched, evil-smellinghovels either side of the rubbish-strewn streets. On this cold November day a barrel of red wine had been broken and splled in front of the wine-shop, a rather better building than its neighbours. The wine-shop keeper stood watching as the ragged folk of Saint Antoine rush from their houses to catch what wine they could from the barrel or from the filthy ground. Their hands and faces grew wolfish-looking, and stained as if with bloods (page 15)	It tell us if Saint Antoine was in really bad condition in that time, really miserable place and got a big problem, and we can also see how poor they are , in such to get some wine they pick it up in filthy ground.
	He gave his arm to his daughter, and the rest followed to a neighbouring church.(page 53)	Lucie and Darnay was Married in the way what they trust, it is Christian religion.
	False laws, evil courts , and prisons fuller than ever became the order of things. And above all one frightful figure became better and better known – the Guillotine.(page 82)	In that time they going to a bad law, cruel, which is all ended by guillotine.

Atmosphere Setting

Categories	Passage from text	This setting tell about
Descriptive	It was a cold damp foggy night late in November of 1775. A mail coach struggled through deep mud, up Shooter’s Hill on the way to Dover while the passengers walk beside it. It was an age when even in cities people might easily be robbed by night; so on a lonely road men looked suspiciously at each other, wondering if one was perhaps a highwayman.(page 7)	They were in tight and wary condition, wondering if one was perhaps a highwayman.
	The conversation had been in such a low tones that Miss Manette had heard none of it, but she trembled so much with anxiety and fear that Mr.Lorry tried to encourage her (page 18)	Miss Mannete feel anxiety and feared.
	The marriage day shone brightly ; the beautiful bride , Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross waited outside the doctor’s closed door while he talked to Darnay. Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross rejoiced at Lucie’s happiness , though their eyes often filled with tears.(page 52)	It show us that they were happy at the wedding of Lucie and Darnay.
	The district of Saint Antoine was in an uproar. A great mass of living scarecrows struggled and shouted, arming themselves with weapons that were being given out, or, if all else failed, with stones from the road. Everyone there held life of little value, and was ready in his madness to kill or be killed(page 62)	It show us the confusion in Saint Antoine, crowded way, and scary.
	One day there was a festival , and as Lucie waited in the little street a crowd of men and women came dancing into it, led by The Vengeance and the wood-cutter. It was an evil dance, called the Carmagnole, danced to excite the dancers until they were ready and eager to kill. It was frightening , and Lucie cried relief when, on looking up, she saw her father. (page 83)	Its really scary to Lucie.
Dialog	‘the prisoner was as open as he was kind and good to my father. I hope,’ bursting into tears,’ I may not repay him by doing him harm today.(page 25)	Miss Mannete was in regret, she feel guilty about Darnay.
	‘my father !’ exclaimed Lucie,’ you are ill!’ He had started up with his hands to his head in a way that terrified them all.(page 35)	They were panic.