Carton first appears as a cynical drunkard who serves as a legal aide to a London barrister. This coincidence enables Carton to stand in for Darnay, who has been sentenced to die on the guillotine. Why is it ironic that Jerry Cruncher works for Tellson's? What request does carton make of Charles? Terms in this set 18 What request does Carton make of Charles?
He asks for Darnay's friendship and asks for his forgiveness for his rudeness after the trial. What does carton promise to Lucie? What is the name of the bank that is described in a tale of two cities?
Tellson's Bank near Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even back in Where do olive trees originate from? What are the components of social perceptions? An American edition was also published, in slightly later weekly parts May to December , in Harper's Weekly. The novel, which begins It was the best of times, it was the worst of times , is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Dickens researched the historical background meticulously, using his friend Thomas Carlyle's History of the French Revolution as a reference.
This historical accuracy, with less reliance on character development and humor, led to the rather un-Dickensian feel of the book. The year is and Dr Alexandre Manette , imprisoned unjustly 18 years ago, has been released from the Bastille prison in Paris.
His daughter, Lucie , who had thought he was dead, and Jarvis Lorry , an agent for Tellson's Bank, which has offices in London and Paris, bring him to England.
Skip ahead 5 years to Frenchman Charles Darnay is on trial for treason, accused of passing English secrets to the French and Americans during the American Revolution. He is represented by Stryver and is acquitted when eyewitnesses prove unreliable partly because of Darnay's resemblance to barrister Sydney Carton. In the years leading up to the fall of the Bastille in Darnay, Carton, and Stryver all fall in love with Lucie Manette.
Carton, an irresponsible and unambitious character who drinks too much, tells Lucie that she has inspired him to think how his life could have been better and that he would make any sacrifice for her. Stryver, Carton's barrister friend, is persuaded against asking for Lucie's hand by Mr Lorry, now a close friend to the Manettes. Lucie marries Darnay and they have a daughter. Meanwhile, in France, Darnay's uncle the Marquis St.
Evremonde is murdered in his bed for crimes committed against the people. Charles has told Dr. Manette of his relationship to the French aristocracy, but no one else. By the revolution has escalated in France. Evremonde whom no one seems to know. Darnay sees the letter and tells Lorry that he knows the Marquis and will deliver it. The letter is from a friend, Gabelle , wrongfully imprisoned in Paris and asked the Marquis Darnay for help.
Knowing that the trip will be dangerous, Charles feels compelled to go and help his friend. He leaves for France without telling anyone the real reason. Mr Lorry, in Paris on business, is joined by Dr. Manette has influence over the citizens due to his imprisonment in the Bastille and is able to have Darnay released but he is retaken the next day on a charge by the Defarges and is sentenced to death within 24 hours.
Sydney Carton has influence on one of the jailers and is able to enter the cell, drug Darnay, exchange clothes, and have the jailer remove Darnay, leaving Carton to die in his stead. On the guillotine Carton peacefully declares It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.
They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were fired by an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable, it would be less respectable.
This was no passive belief, but an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient places of business. Noakes and Co. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, and very uncomfortable.
The partners who ran the bank were old-fashioned too. By the s, however, a system of underground drains had been created, and domestic waste accumulated in cesspools under dwellings.
The practice of displaying the heads of malefactors is of remarkably recent date, since Temple Bar itself was only erected in the late 17th century, in Thus, though there would have been no heads left on Temple Bar in , the memory of them would be reasonably recent. Abyssinia — modern-day Ethiopia OED — was a turbulent kingdom. Some stability was achieved in when Negus Theodore III declared himself emperor of the country, which was divided amongst various political factions; but the British consul of Abyssinia — Walter Chichele Plowden, who was in favor with the emperor — was killed in by a rebel chieftain while making his way back to England Sanders The British in possession of a series of forts along the coast managed a treaty between the Fanti and the Ashanti aggressors in , but it was later disowned by the British governor, Sir Charles McCarthy.
McCarthy led a force into Ashanti territory in , but was beaten at the battle of Bonsaso, and his skull became the drinking-cup of the Ashanti king Sanders All of the crimes listed here were punishable by death in the 18th century, and the application of the death penalty — there were over two hundred capital crimes on the books Gatrell 7 — was not reduced until the early 19th century. In the s this part of the novel takes place in the number of convictions and executions in London reached a record high.
The death toll did not fall considerably until reforms beginning in the s limited the number of capital crimes Gatrell Indeed, the French look clement in comparison.
They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. The Dictionary of Daily Wants gives detailed instructions for the making of cheeses, and has the following to say about aging and storage:.
Breeches are pants extending to just above or just below the knee. This would have been the general style in In the 19th century, long trousers became the usual attire for men, though breeches were still worn as court dress in the period in which Dickens was writing Fairholt His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Houndsditch, he had received the added appellation of Jerry.
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