What Is The Evolution Of Sydney Carton

In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Sydney Carton starts off as lazy alcoholic attorney who doesn’t have an interest in his own life and ends as a man who sacrifices his own life for a friend that married the girl of his dreams. He even calls himself a worthless and good for nothing man and then he makes a 180 degree turn to become a man who sacrifices himself for his friends. Carton’s evolution reflects the whole books greater theme and purpose which is you can redeem yourself through acts of good.

Sydney Carton begins the book as a self confessed loser. He doesn’t even have an interest in his own life. In a court case a man named Charles Darnay is being accused of being a spy. Darnay is acquitted because Carton and Darnay look alike. The only positive in his life is his feelings for Lucie Manette.

He admits this first to Charles Darnay then eventually to Lucie. This happens on the before Lucie marries Darnay, but while doing it he calls himself worthless but says he sees a better future if Carton and Lucie are together and that he would sacrifice everything for her. After Lucie’s and Darnay’s honeymoon Carton asks for friendship between them and so he becomes a …show more content…
He comforts a woman who is in line before him. Right before he dies he sees that his life now has meaning. Carton believes that Darnay and the Manettes living a very peaceful life and remembering him on the anniversary of his death. Carton also sees the mistakes he made in his life fading away because he redeemed himself by the sacrifice of his own life. He knows that sacrificing himself is the best thing he has ever done in his life and that he made the right choice right before he dies. These things make it able to connect the novels greater theme and purpose. The theme is resurrection through Christ and we see that at the end when Sydney Carton sacrifices himself because he thought about a bible