Sacrifice In Charles Dicken's A Tale Of Two Cities

Sacrifice Throughout history there have been many wars and revolutions, just as such, there have been many epics, novels, and poems written about them. In Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, a book about families, friends, and leaders that are involved in the French Revolution, one will find the usage of symbolize to best explain a variety of themes and characters; along with this the reader will discover the usage of motifs that serve the purpose of showing the need for a revolution, especially when a country is in a difficult state. Throughout this novel, Dickens puts special emphasis on the need, value, and purpose of sacrifice to produce real change. This book includes many themes, two of them being interconnectedness and sacrifice. The theme of interconnectedness shows that events in the present create and shape the future. Interconnectedness also shows how the past and present mirror each other. In one instance, the poor, who are treated unfavorably, as they are considered to be irrelevant lesser beings, in his book, even …show more content…
One such person who does this is Sydney Carton when he sacrifices himself in place of Charles Darnay, for Lucie Manette, as a man hollers "Down, Evremonde To the Guillotine all aristocrats! Down, Evremonde” (481). This helps better the lives of the Darnay family and their friends including Lucie Manette and it also appeases the revolutionaries. Another person who sacrifices part of themselves for Lucie is Miss Pross. Miss Pross accidentally shoots Madame Defarge to hide Lucie’s location and in turn “she never will hear anything else” (476). Madame Defarge, symbolizing evil and a shadow, dying in order to save Lucie Manette, who symbolizes the light, shows that the revolution is coming to an end. These two sacrifices will be what the revolution needs to finally come to an