A Tale Of Two Cities Flashcards

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Charles Darany

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Lucies Husband, Evermonde’s last name, was convicted of guillotine

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Sydney Carton

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A lawyer who made the ultimate sacrifice: looked a lot like Darany: in love with Lucie: Jesus is his counterperson

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Lucie Mannent

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Daughter of Alex Mannent married Darany compassionate

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Miss Pross

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Lucies companion/caregiver made a very big sacrifice by losing her hearing for lucie

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John Barsard

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His real name is actually Solomon Pross: Miss Pross’s brother: who spies for the French in the prisons

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Roger Cly

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A double agent spy who faked his own death

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Alexander Mannent

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Was a doctor who wrote a letter in 105 North Tower: Lucies father: condemned the evermonde race: big connection to shoebench and being recalled to life

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Madame Defarge

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Wrote in her knitting the registary: sister of the family that died from the evermondes: very big on revolution: died by miss pross: real name thersa

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Jarvis Lorry

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Tellson bank banker: dedicated friend to the Mannents

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Stryver

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the “lion” lawery who helped with Daranys case

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Marquis de Evermonde

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french nobleman who was very cruel to his people ultimately killed by Gaspard: Daranys uncle

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Gaspard

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Person who wrote blood on wall in wine: killed by people after murdering the marquis for running over his baby

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Mender of Road

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Saw what had happened to Gaspard and told the story

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Jaques

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People who wished to stay anaynmous while supporting the revolution

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Jerry Cruncher

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Worked for tellsons bank as a portier: was a body snatcher

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Little Jerry

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Jerrys son: said the line rusty fingers

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The Wood Sawery

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Worked in wood shop talked about the gullitine lucie talked to him when went to spot for her husband

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Defarge

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person who led the revolution less crazy than his wife

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Little Lucie

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Lucie Mannents daughter

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The Vengence

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Madem defarges friend

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Shadows and Darkness

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brought errie feeling ideas around the secrets and violence

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Mob Mentality

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Often dickens wrote in negative light: wrote about them in metaphor of a great sea

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Where did the Mannents live in England

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Soho Square

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Where did the Defarges live?

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Saint Antoine Paris

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Foil characters are…

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Carton and Darnay, Carton and Stryver, Madem Defarge and Lucie, Marquis de evermond and darnay, Mr.Lorry Jerry Cruncher

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Tellson Bank

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“Tellson’s Bank by temple bar was an old fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious” (53) Both Tellson’s and England as a whole are very old fashioned, outdated, unwelcoming.

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The guillotine

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Symbol of the horror that happened during the reign of terror: also shows what happens when a crazy revolutionary idea is put into place as a law/government

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The Grindstone

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Grindstone represents mob mentality and violence; it is a place to grind weapons, how quickly people turn from peasants to “savages” when in a setting of violence.

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Courts/Tribunal

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Blindly following traditions without questioning whether they are right, represents what is happening in London overall, everyone follows the unjust rules of the courts

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The Mannents conner in SOHO

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Time passed by, footsteps of children and people visiting, slightly more somber/sad than they were originally because of some hardship and loss (Lucie’s dead child): somewhat a safe place away from footsteps orginally

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Chaetueo

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Stones are cold, representing the cruel Evremonde family, hard to destroy, cold, rigid, no warmth or humanity

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Foulon

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Monsigunar, who told the peasants to eat grass

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Gabellea

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a person who brought darany to france

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The semestress

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Poor girl who is about to die carton gives encouraging words to during final scene

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First estate

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The Clergy

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Second Estate

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The nobility

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Third Estate

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The peasants/commoners

38
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Start and end dates of the FRENCH REV

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May 5, 1789- November 9, 1799

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Start and end dates of THE BOOK

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1775-1793

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