A Tale of Two Cities Suffering Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Volume.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 "Eighteen years!" said the passenger, looking at the sun. |
Mr. Lorry’s imagination circles around the idea of imprisonment for several chapters. As he aptly describes it, two decades in the Bastille render Doctor Manette a walking corpse.
| Quote #2 "I am going to see his Ghost! It will be his Ghost--not him!" (1.4.85) |
Although Lucie almost immediately gives her life over to the protection and care of her father, her initial horror indicates her own suffering in this situation, as well.
| Quote #3 And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy--cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly presence--nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last. (1.5.6) |
The desperation of the people becomes personified as the desperation of Saint Antoine (the location where the Defarges live). Personification of a single location is a common technique in this novel.
