A TALE OF TWO CITIES
END OF BOOK 2
MR. LI
ENGL 10WL FALL 2013
IDEAS FOR THE PROJECT
Character
Analysis
Theme
Symbolism
THEME: JUSTICE VS. VENGEANCE:
THE ASSASSINATION OF THE
MARQUIS EVREMONDE
“DRIVE HIM FAST TO
HIS TOMB.
THIS FROM
JACQUES”
(DICKENS 130).
THEME: JUSTICE VS. VENGEANCE
Mob Violence and The
Revolution
• When is mob violence
ever justified?
“The men were
terrible, in the
bloody-minded
anger with which
they looked from the
windows, caught up
what arms they had,
and came pouring
down into the
streets”(Dickens 221).
SYMBOLISM: WINE & REVOLUTION
“… one tall joker so besmirched…
scrawled upon a wall with his finger
dipped in muddy wine-lees –
BLOOD” (Dickens 32).
SYMBOLISM: WHAT DOES MADAME
DEFARGE’S KNITTING LOOK LIKE?
SYMBOLISM: THE GOLDEN THREAD
WHY IS LUCIE CONSIDERED THE GOLDEN THREAD?
THEME: DOUBLE, DUALITY
Lucie Manette
Madame Defarge
CHARACTER ANALYSIS:
LUCIE MANETTE
“Ever busily winding, the golden thread that bound
them all together, weaving the service of her happy
influence through the tissue of all their lives, and
making it predominate nowhere” (Dickens 208).
What does this say (imply) about Lucie?
What is our opinion (inference) about her? How does
this connect to symbolism?
CHARACTER ANALYSIS:
MADAME DEFARGE
“Suddenly animated, she put her foot upon
his neck, and with her cruel knife – long and
ready – hewed off his head” (Dickens 217).
What does this say (imply) about Madame
Defarge?
What is our opinion (inference) about her?
How does this connect to theme?
THEME: DUALITY, DOUBLE
CHARLES DARNAY EVREMONDE?
“Our family… did a world of
wrong, injuring every human
creature who came between
us, and our pleasure, what ever
it was” (Dickens 125).
Charles Darnay is not a British
Patriot, he is Charles
Evremonde, nephew of The
Marquis Evremonde.
WHAT KIND OF PERSON IS SYDNEY CARTON?
THEME: DUALITY, DOUBLE
VIDEO RECAP
• Video 5
• Video 6
RECAP
Book 2, Chapter 21: Echoing Footsteps
• Years have passed, Lucie and Charles are happily
married
• They have a daughter, who likes Sydney
• Attack on the Bastille
Book 2, Chapter 22: The Sea Still Rises
• Madame Defarge is now leader of the female
revolutionaries
• Her second-in-command is a woman named “The
Vengeance”
RECAP
Book 2, Chapter 23: The Fire Rises
• The Castle of Marquis Evremonde is lit on fire
• Monsier Gabelle, the government attendant of the
Evremonde’s hides from the villagers who are
looking for revenge upon him
• He will eventually be caught
IN CLASS READ
Book 2, Chapter 24: Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
• Three years after the Storming of Bastille
• The French Aristocracy is shattered
• Tellson’s Bank is now the place of sanctuary for the
French Aristocracy
IDEAS: VIDEO
A TALE OF TWO CITIES STUDENT PROJECT
VIDEO