Sydney Carton

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Love can make people do great or terrible things, it can also change a person in unexpected ways. In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, an important character named Sydney Carton lives for nothing. He has absolutely no drive to do anything except drink his sorrows away. He meets Lucie Manette, who sparks an interest in Carton immediately. Upon falling in love with Lucie, Carton changes miraculously and professes his love to Lucie. Dickens prepares the scene by showing Carton’s worthless and lazy nature when he has no purpose in life, and later he shows his love for Lucie as his purpose in life, which makes him devoted and pure.
Dickens shows that without a drive, Sydney Carton’s nature is lazy, filled with alcohol, depressed, and greatly lacking in self-confidence. When first being introduced to Carton, it is clear to the reader that he is not the best eligible bachelor in London. Sydney is addicted to drinking in order to keep his depression at bay. Upon meeting “with this Double” (84), the Charles Darnay that miraculously resembles Carton, Sydney tells himself that Darnay ...

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