He also works as a “resurrection man” digging up bodies and selling them to scientists. Jerry Cruncher – An odd-job man working for Tellson’s Bank. He becomes a friend of Lucie’s and Doctor Manette because of his honesty and kindness. Jarvis Lorry – A businessman working for Tellson’s Bank. She is fiercely loyal and protective of Lucie and serves as a foil to Madame Defarge, in the end being the one to cause Madame Defarge’s death. Miss Pross – The defensive and caring servant who raised Lucie. He symbolizes the corruption and coldness of the ruling class in France. He shows absolutely no sympathy towards the peasants and working class of Paris. Marquis Evrémonde – Darnay’s uncle, he is an unusually cruel individual, a member of the French aristocracy. Madame Defarge – A ruthless revolutionary who sees her husband’s sympathy as a weakness. He is a committed revolutionary but winds up conflicted about the matter of Darnay’s fate because of his surviving loyalties and sympathies for Doctor Manette. Monsieur Defarge – A revolutionary who owns a wine shop and formerly worked for Doctor Manette as a servant.
He is a kind and loving father who values his daughter above anything else. Doctor Manetteĭoctor Manette – Lucie’s father imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years by the Evrémonde family out of fear that he would reveal their dark secrets. Lucie marries Darnay and even travels to France to attempt to rescue him when he is imprisoned trying to rescue his old servant. When her father, presumed dead for eighteen years, is discovered as a rescued prisoner of the Bastille in Paris, she brings him out of the madness he suffered as a result of his prison sentence. Lucie Manette – Raised as an orphan, she is a woman of great compassion and empathy. He is virtuous and honest, even choose to admit his true identity to his father-in-law, who suffered at the hands of his family members for many years.įurthermore, he shows his virtue when he travels back to Paris at great personal risk to attempt to rescue an imprisoned servant who worked for his family. He is a French aristocrat by birth, of the Evrémonde family, but chooses to renounce his family inheritance any ties to its name and instead live as a teacher in England. Charles Darnay – The novel’s protagonist.
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