Sydney Carton

Mr. Stryver and Sydney Carton both come from similar backgrounds having attended the same school. Yet it is clear that both have built different lifestyles. Stryver, makes his way as a successful lawyer whose accomplishments can be credited to his way of “shouldering his way up in life” (137). His manner is loud and far from delicacy––his being referred to as “the fellow of delicacy” in chapter twelve is a sarcastic term in which it is clear Stryver is certainly not delicate. His presence is “too big for any place” (250) and his large, bullying movements caused him to be described as shouldering his way through life or pushing his way to the top like a “great sunflower pushing its way at the sun” (149). Stryver is a bully of the worse kind––a…

Sydney Carton and Mr. Stryver following along in Dickens’s motif of double are alike and different in their demeanor, in that they share some common traits and values. If one was to look at their similarities, one could go all the back to where they knew each other, which was way back to when they were in school, where they were known as surly drunks. Also after their college careers, they both still continued to drink. “‘And now we have done, Sydney, fill a bumper of punch’” (Dickens 93).…

Sydney Carton is probably the most dynamic Character in A Tale of Two Cities. With barely and information about him, Dickens keeps us wondering why he is the way he is. He’s a brilliant and handsome 25-year-old lawyer who is very successful. But instead, he is known as a drunken man, stumbling along the street. At the court we saw as he “sat leaning back, with his torn gown half off him, his untidy wig put on”, making him look sloppy and disorganized. He is depicted as wasting his brilliance and…

Sydney Carton is shown to be a “round” character. When Dickens uses caricature, it is able to show different sides of Sydney Carton. For example, “Sydney Carton, idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver’s great ally. What the two drank together, between Hilary Term and Michaelmas, might have floated a king’s ship. Stryver never had a case in hand, anywhere, but Carton was there, with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ceiling of the court; they went the same Circuit, and even there…

of Two Cities by Charles Dickens there are several themes displayed throughout the book. Also there are characters who become very developed. One in particular is Sydney Carton. His character progresses throughout the book from being a small character to a main character that is vital to the plot. He keeps the plot moving because he is the resurrection, as the book might say, and he is important to other characters. His character is depicted through themes including two major ones: love and…

Defarge, and lookalikes Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. The two cities Charles Dickens alludes in his title are his birthplace London, and Paris, the site of the French Revolution to analyze the social conditions that led to this…

First of all, Darnay has a family to go home to every night and wake up to every morning. Meanwhile, Carton represents a single, drunkard man with no children or family to worry about. In the end of the book, Carton talks about how he envisions Lucie and the rest of the Darnay family living a fulfilled and happy life together, knowing that he is the one that let it happen (381-382). This paraphrase demonstrates how Darnay has a future with a loving family ahead of him, and much more to look…

up his life, make a change, and full of agape love delineates Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Sydney Carton emulates Jesus Christ through his actions of selflessness, sacrifice, love, commiseration, and resurrection, which is why reason readers are able to make a connection between Christ and him and identify Dicken’s true intentions behind the novel. Virgil Nemoianu expounds on Dickens use of Christian characteristics; however, he wasn’t religious. The correspondence…

uses the character Sydney Carton to represent man’s best and worst. Met in the second section of the book, Sydney Carton is an employee of the famed and wealthy Mr. Stryver. Used by his boss, Carton is continuously robbed of the satisfaction by his peers, and feels that his actions are not being properly rewarded. This growing sense of discontent towards Stryver causes Carton to develop and take on the Shadow, an archetype theorized by Carl Jung. Carl Jung, a famed psychologist was a protege…

with Sydney Carton. From the beginning to the end of the story he changed quite drastically. One of the changes was having his personal and professional life prompted him to go to France. The author, Charles Dickens, thought this was all necessary to show how Sydney wants to feel needed and how needs a genuine, good, person. As you may notice, Sydney Carton goes through a lot of changes. Throughout the story, Sydney Carton goes through many changes. It all began when he found…