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FINAL Flashcards

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The Woodman

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He represents fate. The story starts by the woodman sharpening his saw and this continues happening throughout the story, creating the Guillotine, which decides ppls fate. Works silently.

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The Farmer

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Death. At the beginning of the book is setting aside the carts that people take to the Guillotine (tumbrils). Works silently.

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Wine

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Poured onto the streets of Paris, represents the bloodshed that will soon come, and the desperation of the peasants. Gaspard writes blood on the wall out of wine, referencing that it will come back to these streets later.

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Gorgon/Stone faces

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Outside the Marquis house, represents how nothing about him has changed throughout the story. The Marquis house and even him are made out of stone, which shows he’s like stone, dies with a stone face “driven home into the heart of the stone figured attached to it was a knife”

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St. Antoine

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Paris. Where the Defarge’s wine shop is, personified as one tightly knit community that wants justice. Has unified feelings of rage that the poor citizens feel. Like a mob.

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Jackal

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Carton. Carton is smarter than Stryver, but isn’t obnoxious about i like him, doesn’t want to do anything with his intelligence. Jackal/Carton are helpers to other animals, bottom of food chain.

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Lion

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Stryver. Lions are ferocious and aggressive. They get what they want and are the leaders, similar to Stryver whose determined to being succesful. They eat jackals.

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Golden thread

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Lucie. She is the golden(her hair) thread that connects everyone together and influences everyone. Without her, Lorry, Carton, etc. wouldn’t know the Manette’s, story wouldn’t have happened. Inspires Carton who saves Darnay.

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Scarecrow

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The peasants whose rags are shaking from winds (the Revolution) to scare the birds (the aristocrats), but the birds are not listening

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Birds of fine song and feathers

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The aristocrats that the Revolution needs to take down, Defarge’s shows the Mender of the Road the birds of fine song and feathers that he needed to strip

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Knitting

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Represents Madam Defarge. She keeps her registry on it, and won’t stop knitting/killing even when they’re in the Revolution. Reduces peoples lives to nothing.

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Sea

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Represents the mob and the growing revolution. Grows higher and higher.

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Madam Defarge

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Madam Defarge decides the fate of everyone in the Revolution (like the three fates, classical allusion). She is the leader and personification of the revolution. Represents hate.

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Bastille

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France. Jail where Dr. Manette is imprisoned for 18 years. Attacked and burned down by Revolutionaries in 1789.

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Chateau

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France. The Marquis mansion that was burned down by the 3rd estate, “the chateau and all the race”. Made of stone to represent Marquis and how there’s no change in the system - when it’s burned down change is finally here.

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Tellson’s Bank London

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Old fashioned, dark, ugly, cramped, but very proud of its old-fashioned-ness. People respect it because of its lack of change.

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Guillotine

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Paris. Cuts off people’s heads All red wine(blood) was brought there. Was being built at beginning of book by Woodsman.

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Soho

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A neighborhood in London. Cut off from the violence and chaos of outside world, escape and is calm. “No quainter corner was to be found in England”. Country air there.

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Manette’s neighborhood description

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“It was a cool spot, staid but cheerful, a wonderful place for echoes, and a very harbour from the raging streets.”

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Shoe bench

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The shoe bench represents Manette’s trauma and it is how he deals with his trauma.

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Fire

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The spread and wildness of the Revolution. Red like the color of the rev.

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Fountain

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Life, and how it always continues no matter what is going on around it

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The Vengenace

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Revenge, shadow of Madam Defarge

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Blue flies

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Like flies around a dead body, in a frenzy and want death, non-stop. Flies are less violent than animals - England vs. France

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Grindstone

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Used to sharpen blades/weapons, the Revolutionaries go there and shows there want for killing. People going there to talk shows how its become a part of everyday life, normalized.

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echoing footsteps

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things from the past that will come up again. Footsteps in France is Revolution

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Shadows

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Darkness, danger

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Tellsons Bank Paris

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Was in a wing of a house that belonged to an aristocrat until he fled to escape the Revolutionaries by disguising in his cook’s clothes. Large gate and courtyard.

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Stryver’s Office

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London

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Defarge’s Wine Shop

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Where all the Revolutionaries and Jacques meet (headquarters), Dr. Manette was housed there at beginning of the book. Serves wine/blood

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Dover Road

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Road that goes between Paris and London. Lorry took it from England to England when going to meet Lucie.

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Old Bailey

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London. Courthouse where Darnay’s trial happened. Deadly inn-yard (people would go in to get the guilty charge and die). Old institution. Door were well guarded because people would watch trials for entertainment.

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La Force

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France. “Land of the dead”. Gloomy, dark, and filthy, smell of foul sleep. All the ghosts of life haunt it. Darnay is imprisoned there for a year and three months.

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Conciergerie

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France. Prison where people go before being killed, Darnay switched with Carton there.

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Three Estates

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First - didn’t pay taxes
Second - nobility, aristocrats, made up 3% of population with 1st estate
Third - poor people, heavily taxed

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Book the Third

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The Track of a Storm

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Darnay is born

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1757

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Book Dates

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Book the first - 1775
Book the second - 1780-1789
Book the third - 1792 (right after French Revolution)

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Darnay’s first trial

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Accused of being a French spy, 1780

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Darnay goes back to France to help Gabelle

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1792

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Sydney Carton sacrifices himself

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1794

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Sydney Carton

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Drunkard, no real purpose in life, his love for Lucie recalls him to life. Look like Darnay. Looks careless and debauched.

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Charles Darnay

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French aristocrat who rejected his status to separate himself from his family. Motivated by family honor and desire to repent for his family. 25 when book starts, well-looking with a sunburnt cheek and dark eye.

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Wood-Sawyer

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A man initiated to the Revolutionaries by the Defarges and turns blood thirsty. Turns into mender of the roads. Talked to Lucie when she used to wait for Darnay, revealed Gaspard killed the Marquis and invites Carton to see Guillotine.

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Dr. Alexander Manette

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Falsely imprisoned fo 18 years in the Bastille. Proves to be a kind and loving father, was lacking life when he was freed. “Faintness of voice was pitiful and dreadful”

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Lucie Manette

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Young French woman who grew up in England, raised as a ward of Tellson’s Bank because mother died when she was two. “Short, slight, pretty figure” gold hair, blue eyes.

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Madam Defarge

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Leader of Revolutionaries, associated with The Vengeance and knitting. Cruel and blood thirsty. “Stout woman with a watchful eye…large hand heavily ringed, steady face”

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Little Lucie

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Lucie and Darnay’s daughter, has a special connection to Darnay

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Monsieur Defarge

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Owner of wine shop and married to Madam Defarge. Used to be Manette’s servant. Intelligent and committed, kindness. “a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them…a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met”

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Gaspard

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A french peasant whose son was run over by the Marquis and kills him by stabbing him. After hiding for a year he gets arrested and executed. Writes blood on the wall with wine.

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Gaspard

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A french peasant whose son was run over by the Marquis and kills him by stabbing him. After hiding for a year he gets arrested and executed. Writes blood on the wall with wine.

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Jarvis Lorry

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Agent at Tellsons Bank, 78 in book three. “a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets….” Very orderly, had a crisp flaxen wig of hair. Face had few traces of anxiety.

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Foulon

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“wretched old sinner of more than threescore years and ten”. An aristocrat who told peasants to eat grass and died.

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Miss Pross

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The servant who raised Lucie, Miss Pross is brusque, tough, and fiercely loyal to her mistress.
Is love. Goes back to England at end of book. “A wild-looking woman…a red colour, and to have red hair, and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight-fitting fashion, and to have on her head a most wonderful bonnet”

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Monseigneur in Town

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A French aristocrat. Could not eat chocolate without four men’s help. Allied with rich farmer general by marrying his sister off.

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Soloman Pross

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John Barsad, Miss Pross’ brother. Took all of her money and is a British spy, helps Darnay escape. Swears patriotism is his only motive. Works with Roger Cly.

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Marquis Evremonde

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Raped Madam Defarge’s sister, ran over child with his cart, described as stone faced when he died. Rude and evil, never changed. Darnay’s uncle.
“He was a man of about sixty, handsomely dressed, haughty in manner, and with a face like a fine mask. …one set expression on it..”

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The Poor Little Seamstress

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Forms a bond with Carton while they wait to be executed and they kiss. Was with Darnay at La Force for Plots. Doesn’t tell sister she is dying. “a young woman, with a slight girlish form, a sweet spare face in which there was no vestige of color, and large widely opened patient eyes”

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Jerry Cruncher

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An “honest tradesman” who digs up bodies and sells them(Ressurrection Man). Porter at Tellsons, and Mr. Lorry’s errand man. “raggedly bald with stiff, black hair, and growing downwards almost to his broad, blunt nose”. Rough, surly, comic figure

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Roger Cly

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A police spy who faked his own funeral and accused Darnay of treason, and later a prison spy in France.

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Young Jerry

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small, nasty version of his father, assists at Tellsons with his dad, and wants to be a ressurrection man

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Gabelle

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Evremonde’s servant and tax collector who became imprisoned . Watched the Chateau burn.

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Charles Darnay’s parents

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Dad was older Marquis brother who raped Madam Defarge’s sister

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Sydney Stryver

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“a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from and drawback of delicacy, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life”

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“recalled to life”

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Resurrected and found a new purpose in life

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“recalled to life”

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Resurrected and found a new purpose in life

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doubles

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shows contrast between things, Paris and London, Darnay and Carton

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mobs

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Personified as animals/beasts/savages. Quick to get out of hand and destroy everything

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oppression/compassion

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The peasants and injustice in France. People showed them no compassion. Manette’s show compassion.

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vengeance

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Vengeance drives defarge
Causes her to just be focused on hate
Turned her to shadows

71
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sacrifice

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Carton finds purpose
Is redeemed through sacrifice
French rev must have sacrifice in order to have redemption
Bloodshed must be sacrificed

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shadows/light/dark

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After the courthouse scene carton is seen in the shadows, he j saved darnay but nobody knows bc hes in the background
When he sacrifices himself he turns from shadow into light
Misery, gloom, and evil, Madam Defarge

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imprisonment

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Being imprisoned is like being dead
People in the cells r like ghosts, usually connects to character’s past

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storm

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The revolution

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