TOTC Final Exam Review Flashcards
“It is extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is forever in the way.”
Marquis
“I am bound to a system that is frightful to me. Unwillingly I am responsible for it, while I seek in vain for help to right the wrongs of the wretched peasants who cry to us for mercy.”
Charles Darnay
“Now, as to the future…would it not be better if these tools were put out of his way altogether? Are they not a constant reminder of the past?”
Mr. Lorry
“You will be good to my poor husband? You will do him no harm? You will help me see him if you can.”
Lucie Manette
“Ah! But it’s not my business. My work is my business. See my saw! I call it my little Guillotine.”
The Wood Sawyer
“My family was that peasant family so injured by the two Evremonde brothers. Those dead are my dead, and that call to take vengeance for their wrong is a call to me.”
Madame Defarge
“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.”
Sydney Carton
“I am Briton. I am desperate. I don’t care for myself. I know the longer I keep you here, the greater hope there is for my Ladybird.”
Miss Pross
Banker at Tellson’s Bank of London and a trusted friend of the Manettes
Mr. Lorry
“odd jobman” for Tellson’s and part-time graverobber
Jerry Cruncher
Wife of Charles Darnay
Lucie Manette
Refers to Lucie as“LadyBird”
Miss Pross
Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in Paris
Doctor Manette
Sentenced to death because the action of his father and uncle
Charles Darnay
Cruel member of the French aristocracy
Marquis
Drunken lawyer who takes Darnay’s place at the Guillotine
Sydney Carton
London trial lawyer
Stryver
Former servant of Dr. Manette and a leader of the French Revolution
Monsieur Defarge
Records Crimes Against The People In Her Knitting
Madame Defarge
A Secret Codename Employed To Identify Revolutionaries
Jacques
A friend of Madame Defarge
The Vengeance
Miss Pross long lost brother
Solomon
English spy who testified against Charles Darnay
Roger Cly
His imprisonment brings Darnay back to Paris
Gabelle
Hanged in punishment for killing the Marquis
Gaspard
Charles was “kind, and useful to my father”=good, Carton was “reckless, careless”=inconsiderate
characterization
family, suffering, society and class, morals, life, rebirth
theme
Lucie and how she held everything together
Symbolism
• “The Golden Thread”
the rich aristocracy
Symbolism
• the gargoyles and stone statues at the Monseigneur’s country estate
death
Symbolism
• Madame Defarge’s knitting
the place where the revolutionaries sharpened their weapons
Symbolism
• the grindstone
blood spilt from the Guillotine
Symbolism
• the broken cask of wine
“rebirth” of Doctor Manette parallels with the “rebirth” of Carton, (ing, ing, ing)
parallelism
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
paradox
“golden haired doll/thread”=yellow hair, keeps family together
imagery
streets will spill like blood, blood is spilt after the deaths at the guillotine
foreshadowing
La Guillotine is thirsty
personification
repeating a phrase instead of a name ex.Calling Lucie the Golden Haired doll
epithet
“He never thought of Carton.”
irony
“I am the Resurrection and the Life…”
biblical allusion
French Revolution
allusion
restless sea of revolutionaries
extended metaphor
Marquis illustrates French aristocracy
metaphor
Monseigneur needs 4 people to feed him hot chocolate
hyperbole
wine spilt=blood shed
sensory imagery
crash of violence
onomatopoeia
“like a distracted child”
simile
“I asked leave to teach myself, and I got it with much difficulty after a long while, and I have made shoes ever since.”
Doctor Manette
