Lucie Manette In fact she infuses love in all those who come in contact with her life. The way she falls in love with Charles, she equally sympathise and feels compression for Sydney Carton. Thus we see that Lucie Manette appears pretty, lovable, good and noble, inspiring Pure Love in her father lorry, Stryver, Sidney, Charles and every miss pros.
Her virtues and qualities are estimated highly by everyone as she brings happiness to the lives of others. All the time we see Lucie displaying observation and current judgement of characters. She realise madam Dafarge's hatred and Sidney's goodness. She does not judge a man by his words but looks deep within.
Lucie listens to Sydney, sees his wounds teachers him to see the good thing in life, inspiring him all the time. Manette , and Charles 's wife. With her qualities of innocence, devotion, and abiding love, Lucie has the power to resurrect, or recall her father back to life, after his long imprisonment. Lucie is the novel's central figure of goodness and, against the forces of history and politics, she weaves a "golden thread" that knits together the core group of characters.
Lucie represents religious faith: when no one else believes in Sydney Carton , she does. Her pity inspires his greatest deed. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Book 1, Chapter 6 Quotes. 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!
Related Characters: Lucie Manette speaker , Dr. Alexandre Manette. Related Themes: Sacrifice. Page Number and Citation : 48 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Book 2, Chapter 4 Quotes. Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind. She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery, and to a Present beyond his misery: and the sound of her voice, the light of her face, the touch of her hand, had a strong beneficial influence with him almost always.
Related Characters: Dr. Alexandre Manette , Lucie Manette. Related Symbols: Knitting and the Golden Thread. Related Themes: Fate and History. Page Number and Citation : 83 Cite this Quote.
Book 2, Chapter 10 Quotes. He had loved Lucie Manette from the hour of his danger. He had never heard a sound so sweet and dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so tenderly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him.
Related Characters: Charles Darnay a. Related Themes: Resurrection. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Book 2, Chapter 13 Quotes. For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.
Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you […] O Miss Manette, […] when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!
Book 2, Chapter 20 Quotes. My husband, it is so. I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now. But, I am sure that he is capable of good things, gentle things, even magnanimous things. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 1, Chapter 4. In Dover, Mr. Lorry takes a room at the Royal George Hotel. The year-old Lucie Manette arrives that same afternoon, having received vague instructions to meet a Tellson's Bank employee Rather than tell Lucie the truth, Lucie 's mother told her that her father was dead. Lucie 's mother herself died Lorry braces Lucie for a shock: her father is not dead.
He has been found, though he's a Book 1, Chapter 5. Lorry and Lucie. Defarge ignores them, instead lamenting the condition of the people with three men, all of Book 1, Chapter 6.
Lucie approaches, with tears in her eyes. The shoemaker asks who she is. Noticing her blonde Book 2, Chapter 2. When Darnay glances at a young woman and her father sitting nearby Lucie and Dr. Manette , word flashes through the crowd that these two are witnesses against Darnay Book 2, Chapter 3. Lorry, Lucie , and Dr. Manette are each called to testify: they had all met Charles aboard ship Carton continues to look bored, stirring only to order help when he notices Lucie start to faint.
Finally, the jury returns from its deliberations with a verdict of not Book 2, Chapter 4. Heck, even Miss Pross makes a special appearance. Lucie, however, almost vanishes out of sight. As Charles remarks,. Lucie only speaks the language of the home.
When she begs Madame Defarge to spare her husband, she does it "as a wife and a mother. Despite the terror and the bloodshed that surround her, Lucie remains innocent. She goes upstairs while the grindstone sharpens bloody axes and swords into weapons of war. For contemporary readers, however, Lucie may seem just a little too good to be true. Or even a political ally? Critics have suggested that Lucie becomes a victim of our times: Victorian readers might have seen Lucie as an ideal woman.
Contemporary readers are often inclined to see her as anything but that.
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