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Love and Self Sacrifice
Summary: Discusses the characters of Dr. Manette, Sydney Carton, and the love they had for the character of Lucie Manette in "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.
Dr. Manette's and Sydney Carton's love for Lucie Manette bring about their resurrection and a new sense of happiness, in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Dr. Manette is freed from the confines of his physical and mental prison, through the love of Lucie. Lucie's love enables Manette's spiritual renewal and rebirth. After being confined for seventeen years, Dr. Manette was "a hopeless and lost creature" that had, "lost the life and resonance of a human" (47). Dr. Manette was a lost soul, who had his life and his daughter taken away from him. He is still encased in mystery and in a fragile state, after his physical rescue from the "One Hundred and Five, North Tower" (49). Lucie is ready to "kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having never for his sake striven all day and lain awake all night and wept all night...
This section contains 526 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |