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| Charles Darney | ANSWER: A French aristocrat by birth who chooses to live in England because he cannot bear to be associated with the cruel injustices of the French social system. He conceals that is is a member of the infamous French Evremonde family and returns to Paris, at great personal risk, to save the imprisoned Gabelle. |
| Sydney Carton | ANSWER: An insolent, indifferent, and alcoholic attorney who works with Mr. Stryver. His physical features are very similar to Charles Darney but his character is just the opposite. He loves Lucie. At the conclusion of Book Two, Lucie begins to see a change for the good in his personality. He is known in the novel as the "Jackel" because of his lack of ambition and determination.. |
| Doctor Manette | ANSWER: He is Lucie's father and a very good physician. He spent 18 years in the Bastille prison in Paris as a debtor. There si worked on shoes to escape the tortures of prison life. Later in his life, he reverts back to moments of shoe work in order to escape the stresses of his life. He loves his daughter and highly respect her husband Charles Darney. He is the only one to know early on Charles Darney's true identity. |
| Lucie Manette | ANSWER: A young French women who grew up in England. Lucie was raised as a ward of Tellson's Bank because her parents were assumed dead. She is a symbole of "compassion" and is very loving a faithful to her father upon his release from prison. She is known "as the golden-thread" to binds peoples lives for the good - like that of Sydney Carton. |
| Monsieur Defarge | ANSWER: He used to be a servant for Dr. Manette. Later on, he purchased a Wine Shop in Saint Antonie, France. His Wine Shop is a center for revolutionary thinking and activity in France. He maintains great respect for Dr. Manette which his wife believes is a weakness of his. |
| Madame Defrage | ANSWER: She used to be a servant of Dr. Manette. Later, she becomes a cruel revolutionary in France. Throughout the novel, she knits a register of everyone who must die for the French revolutionary cause. Unlike her husband, she has respect for few and longs for vengence on all those associated with the French aristocracy. |
| Jarvis Lorry | ANSWER: An elderly businessman who works as a clerk for the Tellson Bank in London. He is a bachelor with a strong sense of good and an honest heart. He is very loyal as a friend to Dr. Manette and Lucie. |
| Jerry Cruncher | ANSWER: An odd-job-man for the Tellson Bank in London. Cruncher is gruff, short-tempered, superstitious, and uneducated. He supllements his income by working as a "Resurrection-Man," one who digs up dead bodies and sells them to scientists. |
| Miss Pross | ANSWER: The servant who raised Miss Lucie. Miss Pross is bruque, tough, and fiercely loyal to Miss Lucie. Because she personifies order and loyalty, she provided the perfect foil to Madame Defarge, who epitomizes the violent chaos of the French revolution. |
| Marquis Evremone | ANSWER: He is Charles Darney's uncle. He is a French aristocrat who embodies an injumanly cruel caste system (maintaining serfs on his property). He shows absolutely no regard for human life and wishes that the peasants of the world would be exterminated. He is killed by the "Jacques (French revolutionaries) with a knife in the heart. |
| Mr, Stryver | ANSWER: An ambitious lawyer, who dreams of climbing the social ladder. He is bombastic, proud, and foolish. He is Charles Darney's lawyer in his London trail. He wants to marry Miss Lucie but quickly changes his mind when he finds out that she will say "no" to such a marriage. He is known in the novel as the "Lion" because of his ambition and determination. |
| John Barsad | ANSWER: He is a British spy who swears that patriotism is his only motive. He falsely claims to be a virtuous man of upstanding virtue. He testifies against Charles Darney in his London trail but is made to look unvirtuous by Darney's attorney, Mr. Stryver. |
| Roger Cly | ANSWER: He is a Bristish spy who swears that patriotism alone inspires all of his actions. Cly feign honesty but in fact constantly participates in conniving schemes. He testifies aginst Charles Darney in his London trail but is made to look less virtuous by Darney's attorney, Mr. Stryver. He dies in Book Two and hsi body is dug up by Mr. Cruncher and sold to scientists. While digging up his body, Crunch's son sees what is father does for a side occupation. |
| Gabelle | ANSWER: The man charged with keeping up the Evremonde estate after the Marquis death. He is imprisoned by the French revolutionaries and news of his interment prompts Charles Darney to travel to France, at great personal risk, to save him. |
| Monseigneur | ANSWER: An French aristocrat whose party the Marquis Evremonde attends. He represent the excessives of the French nobility by having foru men feed him his chocolate drink. |
| The Vengence | ANSWER: A lady, who during the Frech revolution, travels with Madame Defrage. she represent the Frech peasnatry and their quest for revenge on the French nobiltiy for years of abuse and neglect. |
