Chapter 1: “Now I am left, as if I were dead. And here in these crawling creatures is the first condition of the body after death (244).”
After being imprisoned, Darnay looses all contact with the outside world, and as such, he is as good as dead.
Chapter 2: “Live the Bastille prisoner! Help for the Bastille prisoner’s kindred in La Force! Save the prisoner Evremonde at La Force (250)!”
The status of Prisoner seems to be a good one to have among revolutionaries. As a former Prisoner, Manette is able to get an entire mob on his side very quickly and easily.
Chapter 3: “ Judge you! Is it likely that the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now? (256).”
Mrs. Defarge does not show any mercy towards Lucie, characterizing her as a cold and heartless person. The revolution is not all good, just like Mrs. Defarge
Chapter 4: “Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world – the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine (261).”
The familiarity of the guillotine sets the mood of France during the revolution. There is death and chaos everywhere. The guillotine also looms ominously in Charles Darnay’s future.
Ch.1 “I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-countryman which lies before you. I demand no more than the opportunity to do so without delay. Is not that my right (239)?”
Ch.2 “Looked out upon a throng of men and women. The people in the possession of the house had let them in at the gate, and they had rushed in to work at the grindstone; it had evidently been set up there for their purpose, as in a convenient and retired spot (249).”
Ch.3 “As a wife and mother,” cried Lucie, most earnestly, “I implore you to have pity on me and not to exercise any power that you possess, against my innocent husband, but to use it in his behalf (256).”
It is as the good patriots say,’ observed the timid functionary. ‘You are an aristocrat, and must have an escort- and must pay for it.” (3.1.234)
“The eye could not detect one creature in the group free from the smear of blood. Shouldering one another to get next at the sharpening-stone, were men stripped to the waist, with the stain all over their limbs and bodies; men in all sorts of rags, with the stain upon those rags; men devilishly set off with spoils of women's lace and silk and ribbon, with the stain dyeing those trifles through and through.” (3.2.249)
“For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband. For my child’s sake! We are more afraid of you than of these others.” (3.3.255)
“What private solicitude could rear itself against the deluge of the Year One of Liberty--the deluge rising from below, not falling from above, and with the windows of Heaven shut, not opened!” (3.4.259)
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Chapter 1: “Now I am left, as if I were dead. And here in these crawling creatures is the first condition of the body after death (244).”
After being imprisoned, Darnay looses all contact with the outside world, and as such, he is as good as dead.
Chapter 2: “Live the Bastille prisoner! Help for the Bastille prisoner’s kindred in La Force! Save the prisoner Evremonde at La Force (250)!”
The status of Prisoner seems to be a good one to have among revolutionaries. As a former Prisoner, Manette is able to get an entire mob on his side very quickly and easily.
Chapter 3: “ Judge you! Is it likely that the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now? (256).”
Mrs. Defarge does not show any mercy towards Lucie, characterizing her as a cold and heartless person. The revolution is not all good, just like Mrs. Defarge
Chapter 4: “Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world – the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine (261).”
The familiarity of the guillotine sets the mood of France during the revolution. There is death and chaos everywhere. The guillotine also looms ominously in Charles Darnay’s future.
Ch.1
“I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-countryman which lies before you. I demand no more than the opportunity to do so without delay. Is not that my right (239)?”
Ch.2
“Looked out upon a throng of men and women. The people in the possession of the house had let them in at the gate, and they had rushed in to work at the grindstone; it had evidently been set up there for their purpose, as in a convenient and retired spot (249).”
Ch.3
“As a wife and mother,” cried Lucie, most earnestly, “I implore you to have pity on me and not to exercise any power that you possess, against my innocent husband, but to use it in his behalf (256).”
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It is as the good patriots say,’ observed the timid functionary. ‘You are an aristocrat, and must have an escort- and must pay for it.” (3.1.234)
“The eye could not detect one creature in the group free from the smear of blood. Shouldering one another to get next at the sharpening-stone, were men stripped to the waist, with the stain all over their limbs and bodies; men in all sorts of rags, with the stain upon those rags; men devilishly set off with spoils of women's lace and silk and ribbon, with the stain dyeing those trifles through and through.” (3.2.249)
“For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband. For my child’s sake! We are more afraid of you than of these others.” (3.3.255)
“What private solicitude could rear itself against the deluge of the Year One of Liberty--the deluge rising from below, not falling from above, and with the windows of Heaven shut, not opened!” (3.4.259)
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