Dr. Manette's Letter Change Of Fate

Papers: Papers represent a change of fate for the characters whenever they are referenced with the papers. Whenever papers are received in any court it always changes the trial. This is because they are usually evidence that changes the verdict of the trial. An example of this changing someone’s fate is when Charles Darnay is on his last trial of the book and Dr. Manette’s letter causes him to be “Unanimously voted [guilty]. At heart and by descent . . .an enemy of the Republic” (318). Before this letter his fate was drastically different, “All the voices were in the prisoner’s favour, and the President declared him free” (273). The papers are markers of a large shift in the destiny of a character.
Scarecrow + birds: The scarecrow + birds represent the rich not heeding to the warning signs of the peasants. The scarecrows are the warning signs and the birds are the rich. The book shows how “France shook the rags of the scarecrows in vain, for the birds … took no warning” (29). The book also shows how the birds are the rich when Madame DeFarge speaks about how she would “set upon the birds of the finest feather” (166). The birds of the finest feather are supposed to be the royalty, the ones who will first die in the revolution. The birds, like the rich, are able to fly away before it's too late but they don't because they don't listen to the

These flies do not mean certain death though, if the warnings are listened to they would be able to avoid death. This is shown by the “cloud of great blue-flies swarming about the prisoner” (60). The prisoner in this instance is about to die but later on he does not actually die because he was able to avoid it. If the warnings aren’t listened to, death will come as it is shown by how their “decease made no impression on the other flies … until they met the same fate” (171). In this case the flies are being ignorant of the warning signs, like the aristocrats, and then they