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A Tale of Two Cities Flashcards

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Symbol: The Woodman

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Fate

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Symbol: The Farmer

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Death

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Symbol: Wine

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Blood

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Symbol: Gorgon/Stone Faces

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The Château of the Marquis

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Symbol: Saint Antoine

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mob, metonymy

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Symbol: Jackal

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Sydney Carton

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Symbol: Lion

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Mr. Stryver

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Symbol: Golden Thread

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Lucie Manette

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Symbol: Scarecrows

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poor

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Symbols: Birds of fine song and feathers

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nobility

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Symbol: Knitting

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recording deaths/fate, distraction

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Symbol: Sea

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The revolutionaries storming the Bastille

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Symbol: Madame Defarge

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vengeance, fate, oppressed, power

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Symbol: The Vengeance

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Revenge

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Symbol: Shoe bench

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Dr. Manette’s past

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Symbol: Fire

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Spreading revolution, violence, destruction, burns the Château

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Symbol: Fountain

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Gathering place, the life of the society

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Symbol: Blue flies

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crowd at Old Bailey, mob

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Symbol: Grindstone

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Symbol: Footsteps

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Symbol: Shadows

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Settings/Atmosphere: Bastille

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Dr Manette was imprisoned here for 18 years

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Settings/Atmosphere: Château

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The castle of the Marquis, burned down by 4 people with flames 40 feet high, Dr Manette was brought here to take care of two sick patients

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Settings/Atmosphere: Tellson’s Bank London

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Settings/Atmosphere: Tellson’s Bank Paris

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Settings/Atmosphere: Guillotine

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Settings/Atmosphere: Soho

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The Manette’s home in England

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Settings/Atmosphere: Stryver’s Office

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Settings/Atmosphere: Defarge’s Wine Shop

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The “Jacques” meet here, Dr Manette was brought here after being released

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Settings/Atmosphere: Saint Antoine

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31
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Settings/Atmosphere: Dover Road

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The mail route from London to Dover where we first meet Mr Lorry and Jerry

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Settings/Atmosphere: Old Bailey

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Charles Darnay’s first trial

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Settings/Atmosphere: La Force

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Charles Darnay was imprisoned here

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Settings/Atmosphere: Conciergerie

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Second trial, imprisonment and third trial

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The First Estate

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Clergy (+2, 3%)

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The Second Estate

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Nobility (+1, 3%)

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The Third Estate

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Everyone else (97%) heavily taxed, treated poorly

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Storming the Bastille

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Important dates?

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Causes of the Revolution

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41
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The Reign of Terror

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Charles Darnay

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Dr. Alexandre Manette

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Lucie Manette

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Madame Thérèse Defarge

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46
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Monsieur Ernest Defarge

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47
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Sydney Carton

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Mr. Jarvis Lorry

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Miss Pross

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50
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Solomon Pross

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Miss Pross’s brother, swindler, takes her money and leaves, does not return her affections

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John Barsad

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Solomon’s fake identity when he is a fake witness at Darnay’s trial and a sheep for the prisons in France

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Jerry Cruncher

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A grave robber by night

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Young Jerry

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Sees his dad digging up the casket of Roger Cly

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Gabelle

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Servant of the Evrémonde family, captured by the Third Estate and convinces Darnay to come save him, offers testimony at Darnay’s second trial

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Charles Darnay’s dad

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The elder twin of the Marquis

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Charles Darnay’s mom

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Tries to find and help Madame Defarge but does not succeed

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The Wood Sawyer

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58
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The Mender of Roads

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The old job of the Wood Sawyer, wore a blue cap in the beginning, saw Gaspard hanging beneath the carriage

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Saint Antoine

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60
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The Farmer and the Woodman

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61
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Little Lucie

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The daughter of Lucie and Charles, her brother dies young, hears Cartons say “A life you love” to Lucie

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Gaspard

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Tall joker, his child is killed by the Marquis, he kills the Marquis in revenge and is hanged above the fountain after hiding for a year

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Foulon

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A member of the Second Estate who was incredibly cruel to the Third Estate and told them to just eat grass if they were hungry, the revolutionaries capture him and hang him from a lamppost with grass in his mouth as revenge

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Monseigneur in Town

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4 people for his hot chocolate

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Monsieur the Marquis Evrémonde

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Darnay’s uncle, rapes a girl, kills her husband and her brother, runs over Gaspard’s child and is killed by him

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The poor little seamstress

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Holds Carton’s hand and speaks with him as they go to the Guillotine after she realizes he is not Darnay

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Roger Cly

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John Barsad’s accomplice, gives false testimony at Darnay’s trial, fakes his own death which is discovered by Jerry Cruncher when he finds an empty casket

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The Vengeance

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Madame Defarge’s friend, beats the drums, wife of a starved grocer

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Mr. Stryver

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English 9 H (4 decks)

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