Resurrection In A Tale Of Two Cities

An individual willing to give up his life, make a change, and full of agape love delineates Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Sydney Carton emulates Jesus Christ through his actions of selflessness, sacrifice, love, commiseration, and resurrection, which is why reason readers are able to make a connection between Christ and him and identify Dickens’s true intentions behind the novel. Virgil Nemoianu expounds on Dickens use of Christian characteristics; however, he wasn’t religious. The correspondence between the Bible and plot allow readers to acquire an intense way of thinking because the wine in the novel could be connotated as the blood of Jesus and the recovery of Dr. Manette could be discerned as Lazarus rejuvenation

Dickens uses the concept of resurrection as a recurring theme in A Tale of Two Cities show that change is continuous and a cycle. Before Carton dies, he has a vision about the future and change. He sees a “new heaven” and “new earth” states John T. Irwin. The vision he is a prophetic message about the future of the revolution and the Manette’s. When Jesus Christ died, he knew the purpose of his death was to die for the sins of man and he saw his death way before it happened. Both men prophesied about the change of the people on the earth and their resurrection. Symposium by James Hamilton paraphrases how Carton main purpose in life was Lucie and that he has resurrected through Lucie’s son who is also named after Carton. He is now living through the life of the child symbolically and has created a legacy. He wanted to be loved by Lucie and be fulfilled in life, so his death allowed for him to have everything he wanted. Jesus purpose on earth was to save man from their iniquities which is why he was crucified, then leading to his resurrection on the third day. Carton quotes in A Tale of Two Cities, “I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die"( Dickens, 292). He is quoting the same declaration Jesus made in the Bible in James 11:25-26. The statement makes readers reassess the life of Carton in A Tale of Two Cities and understand the reason for his life and character throughout the book. Although he has resurrected through a child, he also revived himself. Sydney Carton had always felt dead on the inside, but when he died, he came back to life because he had finally found fulfillment and purpose in his life. He was becoming more alive than he had ever been, which is how Jesus felt when he died. He