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A Tale of Two Cities Character Map

Lucie Manette

Daughter of Doctor Manette. Was an orphan until reunited with her father. She is connected to everyone and the novel revolves around her.

"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!" (Dickens 77).

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Lucie Manette

Mr. Manette

Connection to Lucie: She is her daughter.

Lucie is named after her mom and she is about 6 when her father Charles Darnay returns to France. She goes to France when they find out he is in prison again.

Quote: "- as the little Lucie, comically studious the task of the morning, or dressing a doll at her mother's footstool, chattered in the tongues of the Two Cities that were blended in her life." (Dickens 147)

Dr. Alexander Manette

Dr. Manette

Connection to Lucie: Lucie's biological grandfather.

Brilliant doctor, was imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 Years.

Quote: "When this expression was upon him, he looked as if he were older but when it was stirred and broken up-as it was now, in a moment, on his speaking to his daughter-he became a handsome man, not past the prime of life." (Dickens 44)

Mr. Stryver

Connection to Dr. Manette: He was going to propose to Lucie but, Dr. Manette rejected him.

Mr. Stryver is a lawyer who sucsessfully defended Charles Darnay in court. He also has the nickname "The Lion".

Quote: "Mr Stryver, a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of delicacy, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life." (Dickens 55)

Sydney Carton

Connection to Mr. Stryver: Sydney Carton works underneath Stryver.

Sydney Carton is a drunk and depressed man. He is known as "The Jackal". He ends up saving Charles Darnay from being killed because they look alike.

Quote: " I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on this earth, and no man on earth cares for me" (Dickens 50).

Sydney Carton

Miss Pross

Miss Pross

Connection to Lucie: Pross is the teacher and friend of Lucie throughout the novel.

Miss Pross is almost a guardian to Lucie Manette. She calls her "Ladybird", and ends up going deaf from defending Lucie.

Quote: "A wild-looking woman, whome even in his agitation, Mr.Lorry observed to be all of a red colour and to have red hair, and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight-fitting fashion, and to have on her head a most wonderfl bonnet like a Grenadier wooden cheese..." (Dickens 19).

John Barsad

John Barsad

Connection to Miss Pross: John Barsad is actually Miss Pross' brother Solomon. He has a fake name to keep undercover since he is a spy.

John Barsad is/was a spy for both sides, England and France. He also is known by Jaques like every other spy. He accused Darnay of treason and is Miss Pross' brother.

Quote: "They left her at the corner of the street, and Carton led the way to Mr. Lorry's, which was within a few minutes' walk. John Barsad, or Solomon Pross, walked at his side." (Dickens 207)

Charles Darnay (Evremonde)

Charles Darnay

Connection to Lucie: He is married to Lucie.

Charles Darnay is a Frenchman who chooses to live in England because of his hatred of the Aristocrats. His real name is Charles St. Evremonde because his Uncle is Marquis Evremonde. He is in and out of jail throughout the novel.

Quote: "The object of all this staring and blaring, was a young man of abobut five-and-twenty, well-grown and well-looking, with a sunburnt cheek and a black eye." (Dickens 43)

Marquis Evremonde

Marquis

Connection to Charles Darnay: Charles Darnay (Evremonde) is his nephew since his father is his brother.

Marquis Evremonde is known as Monsieur the Marquis. He is an aristocrat who is hated. He has no regard for human life.

Quote: "He was a man about sixty, handsomely dressed, haughty in manner, and with a face like a fine mask." (Dickens 75)

Gabelle

Gabelle

Connection to Marquis: He has to deal with the Evremonde estate after Marquis dies and Charles won't take it. He is like their servant.

Gabelle travels the countryside with Marquis and watches him insult the innocent people and hurt them.

Quote: "Monsieur Gabelle was the Postmaster, and some other taxing functionary united; he had come out with great obsequiousness to assist at this examination, and had held the examined by the drapery of his arm in an official manner." (Dickens 80)

Monseigneur

Connection to Gabelle: Gabelle was with him when they were travelling the countryside.

Monseigneur has an abundance of money and shows it. He is also very rude and hated. He angered Marquis at an event which caused him to run his carriage dangerously fast.

Quote: "Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and the Cheif of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips." (Dickens 72)

Gaspard

Connection to Monseigneur: He was the one who caused Marquis to run his carriage through town and kill his child.

Gaspard is a poor man who drank wine off the ground.He wrote blood on the wall. His child was killed when Marquis' carriage went through town and it ran him over. He also, killed Marquis for killing his child.

Quote: "- and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bad of nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in mud wine-lees-- BLOOD." (Dickens 21).

Defarge

Connection to Gaspard: Defarge watched Gaspard write blood on the wall and went outside to cover it up.

Ernest Defarge is the owner of he wine shop and is and supports the revolution. Ernest and his wife often get information about the revolution inside their shop from spies.

Quote: "This wine-shop keeper was a bull-necked, martial-looking man of thirty, and he shoudl have been of a hot temperment, for, although is was a bitter day, he wore no coat, but carried one over his shoulder." (Dickens 23)

Madame Defarge

Connection to Defarge: Madame Defarge is married to Ernest Defarge and they work in the wine shop together.

Theresa Defarge is constantly knitting. She knits the names of Aristocrats she plans to send to the Guillotine. She sees everything and isn't phased by anything.

Quote: "It would be easier for the weakest poltroon that lives, to erase himself from existence, than to erase one letter of his name or crimes from the knitted register of Madame Defarge." (Dickens 120)

Madame Defarge

Jacques 1,2, and 3

Connection to Madame Defarge: Jaccques 1,2, and 3 are all spies and they report information to the Defarges.

The Jaques' are all friends of monsieur Defarge. They all identify as Jacques. Jacques 3 is bloodthirsy and ravenous. He wants death.

Quote: "'How goes it, Jacques?' said one of these three to Monsieur Defarge. 'Is all the spilt wine swallowed?'" (Dickens 24).

Jaques 123

Mender of the Roads

Connection to Jaques 1,2, and 3: The mender of the roads talked to Defarge and the Jaques' inside the wine shop.

The mender of the roads spotted the man underneath the carriage and talked to the people inside the wine shop about what happened to Gaspard.

Quote: "Madame Defarge set wine before the mender of roads called Jaques, who doffed his blue cap to the company, and drank." (Dickens 115)

Mender of the Roads

Jarvis Lorry

Relationship to Lucie: After Lucie Manette becomes an orphan Mr.Lorry brings her back to England to be reunited with her father.

Jarvis Lorry

Mr. Lorry is a banker who works at Tellson's bank, which has a branch in Paris.

Quote;I "I am a man of business. I have a bisimess charge to acquit myself of. In your reception of it, don't heed me any more than if I was a speaking machine, I am not much else" (Dickens 14)

Jerry Cruncher

Relationship to Jarvis: Jerry took the messages from Jarvis in the carriage during the second book.

He accompanies Lucie Manette and Mr.Lorry to Paris to recoup Doctor Manette. He is a resurrection man, he removes bodies from graves. Throughout the novel he continues to yell at his wife. His son catches him digging up Roger Cly's grave.

Jerry

"Is it being a good wife to oppose your husband's business? If you're a religious woman, give me a irreligious one!" (Dickens 94)

Young Jerry

Relationship to Jerry Cruncher: He is Jerry Cruncher's son.

Becomes curious about the work his father does one night. The night he finds he digging up Roger Cly's grave.

Young Jerry

Quote: " Oh, father, I should so like to be a Resurrection Man when I'm quite growed up!" (Dickens 96)

Roger Cly

Relationship to young Jerry: Young Jerry's father dug up Roger's grave.

A police spy in England. Later in the book he is a prison spy in France. He also faked his own funeral.

Quote: "The virtuous servant, Roger Cly, swore his was through the case at a great rate." (Dickens 47)

Roger Cly

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