Tale Of Two Cities Sydney Carton Quotes

A Tale of Two Cities: Character Analysis

In Tale of Two Cities the character I chose to do is Sydney Carton. People change all the time even if it’s just simple petty stuff like: having a new favorite color, or not liking that favorite food of yours anymore. We’re constantly changing and Sydney Carton has some petty and some major changes in the book. In one part of the book he develops into a tragic, romantic hero. Towards the beginning of the book he is portrayed as a mess-up or a low life with a drinking problem. Once you’re almost to the end of the book you see he’s a good hearted man with a Christ–like attitude. In the beginning of the book Sydney acts like a very arrogant and frustrated man with a drinking problem. Many times in the book he starts drinking so much that he’s on the verge of being drunk or actually is drunk. Most of the time in the book Sydney usually has some type of alcoholic beverage in his hand. In the book it’s giving you the allusion that Sydney having alcohol in his hand helps him keep calm or composed in court, but actually it seems more like a necessity for Sydney. His drinking caused him to lose control of his mouth with Charles Darnay after the
He pours out all of his feelings to Lucie saying, “For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And 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." It’s amazing that he had the guts to say this to her. He’s saying he will do anything for her. Lucie was one of the only people who believed there was a good person in Sydney, and was the only one that would take time to help him change into a better person. There is no doubt that she wasn’t successful. She turned Carton into a caring