Comparing Caron And Lucie In A Tale Of Two Cities

Not only does Dickens connect the characters with them being related, but the bond that Lucie is able to create with her dad changes his life. The impact that she has is strong enough to be called a thread because she keeps the relationship together similarly to how thread keeps fabric together. The repetition of misery reflects on her father’s past state and how her presence contrasts that. It is also repeated to represent that she does not only do this for her father, but she is constantly being the joy in people’s life. Likewise, Lucie connects Sydney Carton to the plot as well. From the first glance of Lucie he is in love with her, so he goes to her father to ask for her hand in marriage. Lucie is home so he tells her, “Let me carry through the

Asking for pity is a way of showing that he knows Lucie is compassionate and conscious of what he is telling her. He values Lucie so much as a women that he finds worth in his own life because of their meeting. Other characters brought together by Lucie are people that were in the courtroom during Darnay’s trial at the beginning of the novel. After Darnay is acquitted, the narrator describes that "Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr. Charles Darnay—just released—congratulating him on his escape from death” (84). The debut of Darnay with Lucie is important because they eventually marry and because Darnay has lived in both France and Britain, similarly to Lucie. All of the listed characters have some sort of relationship with Lucie that keeps the plot moving. The aforementioned father daughter relationship, acquaintance and two lovers respectively all create progressing dialogue with each other because Dickens wrote them to be by the courtroom together in the company of