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In Charles Dickens ¨A tale of two cities¨ one of the main characters, Lucie Manette, would be described as the waif archetype.
An archetype is a typical example of a certain person mainly from a book or T.V. Lucie Manette would be considered a waif. She is considered a damsel in distress. She also has a child like innocence and she has a tremendous strength to endure.
Lucie being the waif enhances the novel because she is the damsel in distress and will need someone to come save her, this is what gives the story her love interest. She also needs to have a hard task to endure, this being Charles imprisonment.
Lucie would be considered the Waif because she attracts heroes. The hero in this book would be Sydney Carton. ¨Will you let me believe when I recall this day, that the last confidence of my life was reposed in your day, that the last confidence of my life was reposed in your pure and innocent breast, and that it lies there alone, and will be shared by no one?¨ ¨Mr. Carton, she answered, after an agitated pause, the secret is yours, not mine; and I promise to respect it.¨ (Book 2 chp. 13. Pg. 155) This quote is showing Sydney Carton confessing his love to Lucie. At the time Carton is not known as a hero but by the end of the book that changes.
Lucie endures her husbands imprisonment for over a year. Instead of crying or showing any sadness or fear she endures, this makes her a waif. ¨Lucie passed two hours of every day at this place; and every day on leaving it, she kissed the prison wall. Her husband saw her (so she learned from her father) it might be once in five or six times: it might be twice or thrice running: it might be, not for a week or a fortnight together. It was enough, that he could and did see her when the chances served, and on that possibility, she would have waited out the day, seven days a week. (Book 3 chp. 5 pg. 275) Lucie is one of the strongest characters in the book because she is able to endure, she may not fight back against someone like Mrs. Defarge but she will have the strength to endure.
This quote from Miss Pross is showing how many suitors are coming to take Lucie. This makes her a damsel in distress but also shows how she is innocent because she doesn't notice the men coming for her. ¨He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart; so rendered and so free from any mercenary taint, he had such an exalted respect for it, that in the retributive arrangements made by his own mind- we all make such arrangements, more or less- he stationed Miss Pross much nearer to the lower Angels than many ladies immeasurably better got up both by Nature and Art, who had balances at Tellsons. ´There never was, nor will be, but one man worthy of Ladybird´(Book 2, Chp. 6, pg. 102) This is how Lucie would be described as innocent and also a damsel in distress.
Lucie has to endure many things in France including the citizens. ¨Such grace as was visible in it made it the uglier, showing how warped and perverted all things good by nature were become. The maidenly bosom bared to this, the pretty almost child’s head thus distracted, the delicate foot mincing in this slough of blood and dirt, were types of the disjointed time. This was the Carmagnole, As it passed, leaving Lucie frightened and bewildered in the doorway of the wood sawyers house.¨ (Book 3, Chapter 5, Page 276) Lucie has to endure the wood sawyer shouting at her and scaring her but she is able to persist and find a way to have him like her. She also could have tried to fight away the mob of people dancing around her but instead she endured it, making her a Waif.
In ¨A Tale of Two Cities¨ Lucie Mannettes theme would be considered beauty. ¨A young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw traveling hat by its ribbon in her hand. As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty figure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity of lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all four expressions.¨(Book 1, Chapter 4, pg. 29) This quote is one of many that describes Lucies beauty. This makes her a waif because waifs are characterized to draw the men into their life. Lucie has many men who come into her life, some of them to help her like Sydney Carton or Charles Darnay or some just because she is beautiful like Mr. Stryver
Lucie Manette reminds me of Paris Hilton. Lucie reminds me of her becuase Paris Hilton is partialy known for being a model and in ¨A Tale of Two Cities¨ Lucie is also known for her good looks. Paris Hilton is a reality T.V. star, this reminds me of Lucie becuase Lucie doesnt have a real job and she just relies on other people to take care of her.
Lucie Manette in ¨A Tale of two Cities¨ would be considered a Static character because her character never changes.
Lucie Manette is a static character because she hardly changes. In the first part of the book she goes to meet her father for the first time and there she vows to protect him forever. ¨If you hear in my voice- I dont know that it is so, but I hope it is- if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it! If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it! If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a Home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!¨ (Book 1, Chapter 6 pg.53) Lucie stays a care talker for the entirety of the book.
Lucie is a static character because she never fights back. ¨We are more afraid of you than of these others¨ (Book 3 chp. 3, pg. 265) Lucie stays afraid of Madame Defarge, she endures the fear that the people of France bring to her, never fighting back or changing her character.
Another example of Lucie Manette being a static character is when her son dies. Even when golden hair, like her own, lay in a halo on a pillow round the worn face of a little boy, and he said, with a radiant smile, ´Dear papa and mamma, I am very sorry to leave you both and to leave my pretty sister, but I am called, and I must go!´ those were not tears all of agony that wetted his young mother’s cheek, as the spirit departed from her embrace that had been entrusted to it. Suffer them and forbid them not.¨ (Book, 2 chp.21. Pg. 211) Other people would have a changed character from such a tragedy but Lucie continues to stay the same person, enduring the pain.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Signet Classics, 1974