Similarities Between Darnay And Sydney Carton

In the novel A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens, there are a large variety of character types. There is an obvious protagonist and an obvious antagonist. But there are to characters to seem to have the persona of both. Sydney Carton and Jerry Cruncher are both very ambiguous characters, both displaying a mixture of positive and negative quality’s. In their own special way both of these men made the success of the Darnay family possible. Sydney Carton is a young lawyer with every possibility of becoming someone great, except for the fact that he is a drunken lazy fool. We first meet him at the trial where Darnay is being tried for treason and spying. The first few witnesses we hear from do very little to help Darnay escape death, it is when Sydney Carton steps in when the case turn around. Sydney passes a note to his colleague that …show more content…
Cruncher is a uneducated, gruff, and short tempered man who works as an odd job man for Tellsons Bank by day, and a resurrection man by night. Jerry first helps out our story by accompanying Lucie and Miss Pross to retrieve Dr. Mannett from Paris. Cruncher also aids Sydney Carton in Darnay’s first trial by delivering information on the witness. Crunchers other job as a resurrection man (grave robber) is not quite as successful as working for the bank, when the job doesn’t go as planned. Jerry “resurrects” bodies and sells them to science. When the body he is digging is missing he takes it out on his wife the next morning “holding Mrs. Cruncher by the ears, and knocking the back of her head against the head-board of the bed.” This is obviously a negative fact of Cruncher. Latter on in the book when Carton was blackmailing Barsad to help him get Darnay out of prison Cruncher was able to give information about a spy who wasn’t in his grave. This was another plus of Cruncher. At the end of the book Cruncher vowed to treat his wife better and stop grave