The first sentence of the “We Wear the Mask” starts off with “We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to the human guile” This is exactly how the Marquis Evremonde is described as. The man with a “face like a fine mask” as said in chapter 2 book 7. He is a man who hides all emotions like those who wore masks in the poem, hiding. In the poem “Acquainted with the Night” it talks about rain and the night which goes along with motifs in A Tale of Two Cities of darkness and Storm. Especially in chapter 22 of the second book titled the Sea Still Rises all about the storm of violence. Violence is a theme connected to motifs such as storm and is seen in the first poem. It says “With torn and
