Tale Of Two Cities Conscience Essay

Charles Dickens uses characters like Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, and Marquis St. Evremonde in the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, to showcase the importance of conscience and how it affects everyone. The characters’ use of conscience creates the whole storyline. One of the main characters goes by the name of Charles Darnay. Darnay seems to construct a believable story of normality. Really, Darnay’s past shows a dark man with darkness surrounding him. Darnay’s real last name establishes a connect bloodline to his uncle; the hatred filled Marquis St. Evremonde. Evremonde presents the first show of consciousness in the book. While in a small town, his carriage runs over and kills a small boy. “Evremonde throws a gold coin at the kids grieving father,” Ironically, the first show of consciousness exhibits no consciousness.

As Darnay concludes how awful his uncle truly is, he realizes he wants nothing to do with the Evremonde name. He even tells his uncle, “no one likes us because we took from the poor to obtain our riches.” Later in the book, we find out that Darnay learned from a young age of the horrors the Evremonde family and what they engineer. We also find that Darnay’s mother hates the family and teaches Darnay to use his conscience. Darnay’s decision to renounce his inheritance goes back to the lessons taught by his mother. His mother taught him to use his conscience, and his conscience helps him make the appropriate choice. Another character in A Tale of Two Cities who shows conscience uses the name Sydney Carton. Carton and Darnay reflect each other on the outside, but not so much on the inside. Carton strives to establish the same morals as Darnay and wishes more than anything to have a similar life. Both men love a woman named Lucie Manette. After Lucie and Darnay marry and have Lucie Jr., Carton becomes extremely close to the