M R . L IE N G L 1 0 W L F A L L 2 0 1 3

A TALE OF TWO CITIESEND OF BOOK 2

IDEAS FOR THE PROJECT

Theme SymbolismCharacterAnalysis

“DRIVE HIM FAST TO HIS TOMB. THIS FROM JACQUES”

(DICKENS 130).

THEME: JUSTICE VS. VENGEANCE:THE ASSASSINATION OF THE

MARQUIS EVREMONDE

THEME: JUSTICE VS. VENGEANCE

Mob Violence and The Revolution

• When is mob violence ever justified?

“The men were terrible, in the bloody-minded anger with which they looked from the windows, caught up what arms they had, and came pouring down into the streets”(Dickens 221).

SYMBOLISM: WINE & REVOLUTION

“… one tall joker so besmirched… scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees –BLOOD” (Dickens 32).

SYMBOLISM: WHAT DOES MADAME DEFARGE’S KNITTING LOOK LIKE?

W H Y I S LU C I E C O N S I D E R E D T H E G O L D E N T H R E A D ?

SYMBOLISM: THE GOLDEN THREAD

THEME: DOUBLE, DUALITY

Lucie Manette Madame Defarge

CHARACTER ANALYSIS: LUCIE MANETTE

“Ever busily winding, the golden thread that bound them all together, weaving the service of her happy influence through the tissue of all their lives, and making it predominate nowhere” (Dickens 208).

What does this say (imply) about Lucie?

What is our opinion (inference) about her? How does this connect to symbolism?

CHARACTER ANALYSIS: MADAME DEFARGE

“Suddenly animated, she put her foot upon his neck, and with her cruel knife – long and ready – hewed off his head” (Dickens 217).

What does this say (imply) about Madame Defarge?

What is our opinion (inference) about her? How does this connect to theme?

THEME: DUALITY, DOUBLECHARLES DARNAY EVREMONDE?

“Our family… did a world of wrong, injuring every human creature who came between us, and our pleasure, what ever it was” (Dickens 125).

Charles Darnay is not a British Patriot, he is Charles

Evremonde, nephew of The Marquis Evremonde.

T H E M E : D U A L I T Y , D O U B L E

WHAT KIND OF PERSON IS SYDNEY CARTON?

VIDEO RECAP

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• Video 6

RECAP

Book 2, Chapter 21: Echoing Footsteps• Years have passed, Lucie and Charles are happily

married• They have a daughter, who likes Sydney • Attack on the Bastille

Book 2, Chapter 22: The Sea Still Rises• Madame Defarge is now leader of the female

revolutionaries• Her second-in-command is a woman named “The

Vengeance”

RECAP

Book 2, Chapter 23: The Fire Rises• The Castle of Marquis Evremonde is lit on fire• Monsier Gabelle, the government attendant of the

Evremonde’s hides from the villagers who are looking for revenge upon him• He will eventually be caught

IN CLASS READ

Book 2, Chapter 24: Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

• Three years after the Storming of Bastille• The French Aristocracy is shattered• Tellson’s Bank is now the place of sanctuary for

the French Aristocracy

A TA L E O F T W O C I T I E S S T U D E N T P R O J E C T V I D E O

IDEAS: VIDEO