![]() ![]() Dickens chooses a side, ultimately showing opposition to the Revolution due to the ruthless and uncontrolled force of its aroused mobs. This theme is inevitable in a novel concerning the French Revolution. ![]() These resurrections are surrounded with heavily religious language that compare Carton's sacrifice of his own life for others' sins to Christ's sacrifice on the cross. First, Sydney Carton's resemblance to him saves him from being convicted and executed in England, and then, the same resemblance allows the latter to switch places with him in the Conciergerie. ![]() The most important "resurrections" in the novel are those of Charles Darnay. This theme is treated more humorously through Jerry Cruncher's profession as a "Resurrection-Man." Although his trade of digging up dead bodies and selling their parts seems gruesome, it provides him with the crucial knowledge that a spy named Roger Cly has been literally resurrected-in that he was never buried at all. Lorry thinking about the fact that the prisoner has been out of society long enough to have been considered dead. Code for the secret mission to rescue him from Paris is the simple phrase "recalled to life," which starts Mr. Book I, named "Recalled to Life," concerns the rediscovery of Doctor Manette, who has been jailed in the Bastille for eighteen years. Resurrection is the overriding theme of this novel, manifest both literally and figuratively. ![]()
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