A Tale of Two Cities

In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, the reader is introduced to two characters who are very different in many ways but who share a common bond: they both love Lucie Manette. The first of these characters is Charles Darnay, a man with a pure heart and an honest face. He has no interest in politics or any other way of life besides his own, which includes tending to the land he grew up on and marrying someone he loves. His love for Lucie Manette is strong enough that even when he finds out she is married to another man, he still wants to marry her—even though he knows it will mean going against her father's wishes. The other character is Sydney Carton, a man who has lost his faith in humanity because he feels like all people have done since the French Revolution is killing each other and make more deathly weapons. He is cynical about love because he believes that women only use men for their own selfish gain, not caring if those men die for them later on down the line. When these two characters meet at Lucie's house one night during an earthquake, they realize that although they come from different backgrounds and have different beliefs about society.

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