The characters Sydney Carton from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Cyrano de Bergerac from Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac prove to be very similar, yet very different. They are alike because they both change their personality for the good of society and they both help out a woman they love by helping or saving their spouse. On the contrary, they differ in regards to Sydney Carton is first introduced as a very lazy, useless person. He works as an attorney for the very professional lawyer, Mr. Styver. Many times, people question his importance in this law firm as he sits in the back of the court room during the trial whistling. He is often found drinking in bars as if there was no tomorrow. In other words, he is a useless alcoholic with no family or friends working, if you dare call that working, in a...