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Dr. Manette is a physician and he is also Lucie's father. He spent 18 years imprisoned in the Bastille.
Dr. Manette is Lucie's father.
Dr. Manette is also the father-in-law to Charles Darnay.
"Charles Darnay, mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division; in the former case, they are subtle and delicate, and difficult to penetrate. My daughter Lucie is, in this one respect, such a mystery to me; I can make no guess at the state of her heart." (2.10.59)
Lucie is a very compassionate character and inspires love in the characters that surround her.
Dr. Manette is Lucie's father and Charles Darnay is Lucie's wife.
Mr. Lorry told Lucie her father was still alive, and that he was locked up in the Bastille.
"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!" (1.6.77)
Charles Darnay lives in England as a Frenchman to get away from his family, the Evremondes who were cruel and apathetic.
Charles' Uncle is Marquis Evremonde. Charles is Lucie's husband and his father-in-law is Dr. Manette.
"I know that when she is clinging to you, the hands of baby, girl, and woman, all in one, are round your neck. I know that in loving you she sees and loves her mother at her own age, sees and loves you at my age, loves her mother broken-hearted, loves you through your dreadful trial and in your blessed restoration." (2.10.39)
He is the uncle of Charles Darnay and is very arrogant and selfish when it comes to other people.
Marquis Evremonde is Charles Darnay's uncle and he is the twin brother of Charles Darnay's father who is now deceased.
He was a man of about sixty, handsomely dressed, haughty in manner, and with a face like a fine mask. A face of a transparent paleness; every feature in it clearly defined; one set expression on it. The nose, beautifully formed otherwise, was very slightly pinched at the top of each nostril. In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, resided. They persisted in changing colour sometimes, and they would be occasionally dilated and contracted by something like a faint pulsation; then, they gave a look of treachery, and cruelty, to the whole countenance. (2.7.15)
Jarvis is a banker who works at Tellson's Bank and raised Lucie in England when she was told her father was imprisoned. Her mother was also dead.
Jarvis Lorry took care of Lucie when he told her Dr. Manette, her father, was imprisoned in the Bastille.
"If you knew what a conflict goes on in the business mind, when the business mind is divided between good-natured impulse and business appearances, you would be amused, Mr. Darnay." (2.4.22)
Gabelle had kept the Evremonde estate after Marquis' death. Gabelle was then imprisoned by the revolutionaries.
Gabelle kept the Evremonde's estate after Marquis had died which obviously wasn't the right thing to do.
"For the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name, I supplicate you, Monsieur heretofore Marquis, to succour and release me. My fault is, that I have been true to you. Oh, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, I pray you be you true to me!"
2.24.
Jerry is a porter for Tellson's Bank. He removes bodies from their graves to make money by selling them to medical schools.
As Jerry's night occupation as being a resurrection man, he supports the end of the story and connects to characters such as Sydney Carton.
"Outside of Tellson's Bank, Jerry Cruncher sees an approaching funeral procession. An angry crowd harasses the drivers of the hearse with shouts of "Spies!" Cruncher learns the hearse carries the body of Roger Cly, a convicted spy against the English." 2.14.
Barsad became a spy for the English. And, he had escaped from his imprisonment.
John is the brother to Miss Pross. He accused Charles of treason.
"Now you are hasty, sir?"
He is a French revolutionary and he is also the owner of the wine shop. He is committed to overthrowing tyranny and avenging injustice.
Monsieur Defarge
He is the husband of Madame Defarge. He also was a former servant of Dr. Manette.
"To be registered, as doomed to destruction," returned Defarge.
[…] "The chateau, and all the race?" inquired the first.
"The chateau and all the race," returned Defarge. "Extermination." (2.15.63-67)
He successfully defended Charles Darnay at his treason trial in England. Stryver became a frequent visitor of the Manettes and announced his intention to marry Lucie. He is also a long time friend to Sydney Carton.
Mr. Stryver
He is a friend of Sydney Carton and he also wanted to marry Lucie Manette.
Mr. Stryver then called his few witnesses, and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney-General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury, inside out; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred times better than he had thought them, and the prisoner a hundred times worse. Lastly, came my Lord himself, turning the suit of clothes, now inside out, now outside in, but on the whole decidedly trimming and shaping them into grave-clothes for the prisoner. (2.3.102)
Roger Cly is also a British spy that claims patriotism is his only motive.
Roger is John's accomplice and bears false witness to accuse Charles Darnay of treason.
-him accusing Charles of treason
She is a wine shop owner and she also knits a lot. She is an antagonist though she had also suffered.
Madame Defarge
She is the wife of Monsieur Defarge and she tries her best to get Charles Darnay killed.
"I care nothing for this Doctor, I. He may wear his head or lose it, for any interest I have in him; it is all one to me. But, the Evrémonde people are to be exterminated, and the wife and child must follow the husband and father." (3.14.6)
Miss Pross is a governess and she is also Lucie's friend. She stayed in England due to her stout patriotism.
She is Lucie's friend and she had accompanied Lucie to retrieve her father from France.
"Do you imagine—" Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with:
"Never imagine anything. Have no imagination at all." (2.6.54-5)
He is the child of Jerry Cruncher and he is very curious of where his father goes at night.
Little Jerry
Little Jerry is the son of Jerry Cruncher and Mrs. Cruncher.
Jerry asks his father what a "resurrection man" is after following him when he goes out at night to open the grave of Robert Cly.
The Mender of Roads is a poor man who finds a way to make himself useful to the revolution by relating the story of the man under the Marquis's carriage.
Mender of Roads
He is a poor man who refers to the story of a man under the carriage of Marquis.
“Again the mender of roads went through the whole performance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing that it had been the ingallible resource and indispenable enternainment for his village during a whole year.”
Gaspard represents the powerlessness of the common people in the revolution.
Gaspard
Gaspard is connected to all the people in the revolution. His son was killed by Monsieur.
“Killed!” shrieked the man, in wild desperation, extending both arms at their length above his head, and staring at him. “Dead!”
All the Jacques are anonymous and they all work at Monsieur Defarge's wine shop.
Jacques
1,2,3
They worked at Monsieur Defarge's wine shop.
'Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from JACQUES.'" Book 2, Chapter 9, pg. 125
He is a shrewd young Englishman educated at Shrewsbury School, and sometime junior to his fellow barrister Stryver. Carton is portrayed as a drunkard, depressed and self-loathing because of what he sees as his wasted life.
Sydney Carton
He is in love with Lucie Manette. He takes Charles Darnay's place in the guillotine and dies instead of him.
“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."