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London, England and Paris, France
The era in which he wrote the novel, circa 1859
That the English paid too much attention to spiritual hoaxes and not enough to the first signs of revolution in America
British colonists were expressing discontent, and the Revolutionary War was about to begin.
That the spirits of the dead are able to communicate through mediums
Before the Revolution, France’s government was in massive debt because it had spent so much money on its military.
He is condemning atrocious acts, typical of the period, committed under the guise of religion.
As the Woodman, chopping down the trees that will be used to make guillotines
As the Farmer whose carts will later be used to carry the prisoners of the French revolution
Fate and Death are depicted as commoners, just like those who shaped the fate and brought the deaths of the French Revolution.
They failed to notice the beginning of a revolution all around them.
False; crime ran rampant in England in 1775.
A small handgun
The belief that the right to rule was assigned to the monarchy by God
Jerry Cruncher
The court sentence of burning libelous publications
Anaphora (repetition at the beginning of clauses) and parallelism (repetition of sentence structure)
Dickens implies that the system of criminal punishment in England requires reform: many punishments clearly do not fit their crimes.
The next chapter begins on the Dover road, and this along with other public roads continues to be a significant setting in the novel.
The mail is very heavy, and because the ground is muddy, the horses cannot carry the weight of both the mail and the passengers up Shooter's Hill without getting stuck.
During the period, anyone could be a highwayman or in league with highwaymen, so people tended to be distrustful of strangers.
Mr. Jarvis Lorry
25)
They suspect that he is a highwayman.
Jerry Cruncher
Tellson and Company, or Tellson's Bank
RECALLED TO LIFE”
Everyone aboard distrusts everyone else.
31)
He moonlights as a "resurrection man," selling corpses to physicians for medical and research purposes.
"a clammy and intensely cold mist"
One of mystery and foreboding
The mail coach that transported letters and packages but also took passengers to Dover
Sea and storm imagery is connected to the revolutionary mobs in France and foreshadows the coming violence.
A particularly stubborn horse drawing the mail carriage
To wait at Dover for Lucie Manette
He bribes him with a "crown".
They hide all their valuables.
Everyone but oneself
41)
The ability to know their own innermost thoughts
False; Temple Bar is a gateway marking the western boundary of the city of London. The road to Westminster passes through it.
Temple Bar
Tellson's Bank
It is comparable to the "vault" in the Bastille in which Monsieur Manette was imprisoned and from which he has just been freed.
Almost 18 years
He asks the man if he would like to see an unnamed woman.
The man evaporates into dust.
About 45 years old
It is narrated in the first person.
51)
That every man is a mysterious secret to every other man
52)
The shadow of mystery that keeps men's innermost thoughts secret from one another, or the "shadow" of Monsieur Manette that haunts Mr. Lorry's dreams
The separation between the living and the dead
By saying that they might as well have been traveling in their own coaches
False; Jerry is so perplexed by the message that he wonders if Mr. Lorry might have been drunk when he gave it.
Tellson's Bank in London
He imagines he is on his way to dig someone out of a grave.
The specter doesn't know.
A shovel, a key, and his bare hands
The novel's interest in comparing public and private spaces
It both foreshadows and symbolizes the rebirth of Monsieur Manette after his release from prison.
His hair resembles the top of a spiked wall, and would pose too great a challenge.
The vault, grave, and prison cell are areas of confinement, from which Mr. Lorry has the ability to release Monsieur Manette.
64)
Jerry Cruncher's side job of digging up corpses and selling them for scientific or medical research
About 150 years old
66)
It foreshadows the symbolic comparison of the revolutionary mobs in France to the ocean or the rising tide.
Lucie Manette
To deal with details regarding the estate of her father, who she believes to be dead
False; he refers to all dealings with his clients as "mere business relations"
Mr. Jarvis Lorry
To the house of a former servant, Monsieur Defarge
They know he has been a passenger on the mail because of the room he is given.
Mail travelers dressed to detract the attention of highwaymen, but would resume their personal dress once they reached their destinations.
Around 60
He is always concerned with the cares of other people, which are easier to deal with than personal problems.
He falls asleep.
15 years
Retrieving Lucie Manette and returning with her to England after the death of her mother
The smuggling of goods in order to keep from having to pay import and export taxes
In order to meet with Lucie Manette, with whom he is to travel to Paris
False; despite his protestations, he appears to care for Lucie Manette and her father.
Beauvais
Through the use of lettre de cachet, a blank warrant for imprisonment
85)
She says that she is being sent to meet a ghost, not her father.
He tells Lucie that he carries no written reference to the plan.
Her maid, Miss Pross
The Parisian suburb of Saint Antoine, near the Defarge wine shop
89)
The fervor for blood exhibited by the mobs during the French revolution
It foreshadows the way in which the revolutionaries turned upon their own people.
He writes the word "BLOOD" in wine on the side of a building.
False; the narrator states that "there was little roughness in the sport, and much playfulness."
94)
They dance and frolic for a short time, but once all of the wine is gone they return to their previous business.
The men of Saint Antoine who sucked the last dregs of wine from the wood of the broken barrel
He implies that the rule of lords has caused the current impoverishment of the Third Estate.
Anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Want
100)
He compares them to people who have been ground repeatedly in a mill
To drink the spilt wine from the gutter
Tools and weapons
He employs weather imagery to create the mood of Saint Antoine.
The people of Saint Antoine
105)
Anaphora
It looks more appealing than most others.
The man who has written the word "BLOOD" on the side of a building with his wine-stained fingers
Monsieur Defarge
False; Madame Defarge wraps herself in a fur, while her husband goes without his coat.
Jacques
They represent the revolutionary lower classes.
The chamber where Monsieur Manette is being kept
No one stays with him; he is left alone.
At the time, people threw their garbage out of their apartments and onto the landings or stairwell.
Monsieur Manette would be frightened to death if his door were left open.
The three Jacques
He sheds a tear at the sight, although he tries to cover it up by acting businesslike.
The voice of a man remembering his friends and family before he dies
119)
Lucie is faint with fear.
The daughter of a jailer
Monsieur Manette
False; he was a doctor before his imprisonment in the Bastille.
By her golden hair
The Bastille guards found it on his clothing when he was first incarcerated and allow him to keep it.
On a cord around his neck
They can never help him escape in body, only in mind.
The sound of his daughter's voice
False; Lucie convinces Mr. Lorry to let her stay with her father, but Mr. Lorry does not think it is safe.
Readers of the serial form expected such melodrama and emotional tension, particularly near the end of each installment.
131)
A general term for food or provisions
He believes that he is still in the Bastille.
Madame Defarge
His shoemaking tools and unfinished shoes
The Defarges
Dr. Manette directly after his release from the Bastille
Monsieur Manette's literal jail cell at the Bastille and the figurative grave from which Mr. Lorry has unburied him
A young lady's walking shoe
The cell in the Bastille where Monsieur Manette was held
While imprisoned in the Bastille
Previously, Lucie had feared that her father would be nothing but a ghost to her.
A guarded wall surrounding Paris
False; the book ends with his escape from Paris, but Mr. Lorry is still doubtful whether Monsieur Manette will ever regain the life he once had.
Tellson's Bank
The son suggesting rebuilding or modernizing Tellson's Bank
Both value tradition and custom more than improvement and modernization.
Tellson's Bank