What Does The Golden Hair Symbolize In A Tale Of Two Cities
5.Mask
“It was like a fine mask, suddenly startled, made angry, and petrified(121)”
Dickens uses a mask to symbolize the different sides to everyone in this book. This is meaning that though a person may be perceived one way, they might not actually be like that, or they might be hiding something. Usually when a person is hiding something in this book, it ends up coming out and being something potentially harmful towards someone in the main circle of characters. In my quote, the mask is referring to Monsieur the Marquis. It states that his mask made him look “suddenly startled, made angry, and petrified.” This can be alluding to the fact that the Marquis was more cold hearted than you would think upon seeing him walk by in public.
6.Golden hair
“Her golden hair, which she wore in long curls...He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one or two golden hairs(Dickens 42)” …show more content…
First, it symbolizes her father’s past. This is because Doctor Manette had a baggie of golden hair, that appeared the same as Lucie’s, which connected him back to his past before he was kidnapped and locked up for all those years. Second, it symbolizes how Lucie helped Mr. Manette. This can be assumed because Lucie’s hair is described as being golden(when she first meets with her father), and golden normally comes with a positive connotation. So this shows how once Doctor Manette and his daughter were united she was like his golden star, if you will, and how she helped him out of that tough part of his
“It was like a fine mask, suddenly startled, made angry, and petrified(121)”
Dickens uses a mask to symbolize the different sides to everyone in this book. This is meaning that though a person may be perceived one way, they might not actually be like that, or they might be hiding something. Usually when a person is hiding something in this book, it ends up coming out and being something potentially harmful towards someone in the main circle of characters. In my quote, the mask is referring to Monsieur the Marquis. It states that his mask made him look “suddenly startled, made angry, and petrified.” This can be alluding to the fact that the Marquis was more cold hearted than you would think upon seeing him walk by in public.
6.Golden hair
“Her golden hair, which she wore in long curls...He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one or two golden hairs(Dickens 42)” …show more content…
First, it symbolizes her father’s past. This is because Doctor Manette had a baggie of golden hair, that appeared the same as Lucie’s, which connected him back to his past before he was kidnapped and locked up for all those years. Second, it symbolizes how Lucie helped Mr. Manette. This can be assumed because Lucie’s hair is described as being golden(when she first meets with her father), and golden normally comes with a positive connotation. So this shows how once Doctor Manette and his daughter were united she was like his golden star, if you will, and how she helped him out of that tough part of his