Doctor Manette in “Book the First” is broken and suffering from what we now know as PTSD, from being locked away in prison for eighteen years; prison has altered his personality. Dr. Manette no longer has an identity and refers to himself as the building he was held in, in Bastille prison. “One Hundred and Five, North Tower.” (Dickens 72) Although he is still in the prison mindset and a shell of his former self he still maintains the qualities of a round character. He is a figure of the trauma that is suffered in prison due to tyranny. Manette’s emotions are realistic to what people who have suffered his pain. He is very complex and hard to understand and trace, no one is quite sure why or how he got to where he is but, all they know are his
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Lucie through love and care and Darnay thorough security. The alliance between the three of them have shaped the plot of the story they all do as they can to protect each other Lucie helps Manette get back on his feet, and become a much more civilized and sane man. Charles Darnay is Doctor Manette’s son-in-law but he takes him under his wing in a sense. In the love of his daughter he shouts out to protect him, when he rescues him it is to help his daughter. Doctor Manette is on the protagonist side he represents the change and resurrection of all of character. He represents the common man, and common struggle between the people. He creates a conflict between himself, he tries to overcome his jail mindset, but is still suffering. His loving daughter tries all that she can help …show more content…
Manette throughout the novel is always seen making shoes, footsteps are often shown throughout the novel as well. In “Book the First” Lucie hears the steps of footsteps coming into her lives, these footsteps symbols fate. “ ‘It will seem nothing to you. Such whims are only impressive as we originate them, I think; they are not to be communicated. I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by-and-bye into our lives.’ ‘There is a great crowd coming one day into our lives, “ (Dickens 178)The footsteps are a symbol of the people that come into the lives of the Manette’s, the people that come in and out of their live essentially live marks or footsteps on them. “ ‘Are all these footsteps destined to come to all of us, Miss Manette, or are we to divide them among us?’ ‘I don’t know, Mr. Darnay; I told you it was a foolish fancy, but you asked for it. When I have yielded myself to it, I have been alone, and then I have imagined them the footsteps of the people who are to come into my life, and my father’s.’ ‘I take them into mine!’ said Carton. ‘I ask no questions.” (Dickens 178) Footsteps are seen throughout the novel when talking about life, death, or a new beginning. In “ Book the Second” chapter twentyone is named “Echoing Footsteps” we’re Lucie ponders life, the birth of her daughter, and stale bore son. “ Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into
Lucie through love and care and Darnay thorough security. The alliance between the three of them have shaped the plot of the story they all do as they can to protect each other Lucie helps Manette get back on his feet, and become a much more civilized and sane man. Charles Darnay is Doctor Manette’s son-in-law but he takes him under his wing in a sense. In the love of his daughter he shouts out to protect him, when he rescues him it is to help his daughter. Doctor Manette is on the protagonist side he represents the change and resurrection of all of character. He represents the common man, and common struggle between the people. He creates a conflict between himself, he tries to overcome his jail mindset, but is still suffering. His loving daughter tries all that she can help …show more content…
Manette throughout the novel is always seen making shoes, footsteps are often shown throughout the novel as well. In “Book the First” Lucie hears the steps of footsteps coming into her lives, these footsteps symbols fate. “ ‘It will seem nothing to you. Such whims are only impressive as we originate them, I think; they are not to be communicated. I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by-and-bye into our lives.’ ‘There is a great crowd coming one day into our lives, “ (Dickens 178)The footsteps are a symbol of the people that come into the lives of the Manette’s, the people that come in and out of their live essentially live marks or footsteps on them. “ ‘Are all these footsteps destined to come to all of us, Miss Manette, or are we to divide them among us?’ ‘I don’t know, Mr. Darnay; I told you it was a foolish fancy, but you asked for it. When I have yielded myself to it, I have been alone, and then I have imagined them the footsteps of the people who are to come into my life, and my father’s.’ ‘I take them into mine!’ said Carton. ‘I ask no questions.” (Dickens 178) Footsteps are seen throughout the novel when talking about life, death, or a new beginning. In “ Book the Second” chapter twentyone is named “Echoing Footsteps” we’re Lucie ponders life, the birth of her daughter, and stale bore son. “ Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into