Carton And Lucie's Death In A Tale Of Two Cities

52 prisoners await execution. Carton saves Darnay because they both switch with each other. Once carton enters the cell he changes clothes with Darnay. The guards that are there believe that carton and Darnay are the same person and they take him out of prison. Carton drugs him so he can lose his conscious and leave prison. Lucie is worried and overwhelmed. She feels this way because Madame Defarge wants revenge and Lucie and her daughter are a target so she has to make sure that no one knows where she is going because she can be followed. Madame Defarge symbolizes all the hatred in the novel she is a very cold person and all she wants to do throughout the novel is kill all the people listed on the items she knits and she wants revenge for what happened to her entire …show more content…
The one person absents from Charles thoughts as he awaits execution is carton. The only person to recognize that carton had substituted himself for Darnay is the seamstress. The bowl of water fell and broke when it hit the floor and the water touched Madame Defarges feet. Madame Defarge asked for Evremonde’s wife and when she asked this question Miss Pross decided to close all the doors and she put herself in front of Lucie’s door. Both the woman started to say something harsh things to each other until Miss Pross grabbed her by her arms and never let her go. Madame Defarge attempted to grab Miss Pross gun but when Miss Pross noticed she hit at it and in a matter of seconds Madame Defarge had died. Carton appears sublime and prophetic because of what he has done to Darnay. When he realizes what he has done he figures out that this has been for the best and one of the best things he has ever done to someone. Before he dies he also dreams of what life will be with himself and his loved ones after his death. The son of Lucie and Charles will be the man that Carton always wanted to