Wine/Blood
There Will Be... Wine?Dickens isn’t exactly placing this metaphor delicately into his readers’ hands. He’s shoving it down our throats. If you missed the part where he warns us that blood wi...
Golden thread
Good As GoldLucie is the "golden-haired doll" who charms just about everyone she meets with her beauty. She’s got yellow hair, as you’ve probably guessed. More interestingly, however, Dickens u...
Monseigneur
Chara-llegoryMonseigneur is a character. He’s also an allegory.Wait, how can a character be both a character and an allegory? Well, Dickens describes Monseigneur as a member of the aristocracy. I...