Similar to Lucie from Faces in the Moon‚ Betty Louise Bell is a professor and fiction writer of Cherokee ancestry. Finding out these details about Bell made me wonder if the character Lucie was based on Bell herself. In the interview posted on Canvas‚ Bell states that the story is a reflection of her experience and that Lucie is in fact based on herself. The fact that Faces in the Moon is almost autobiographical does change my interpretation of the novel. It makes the story become more personal‚
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would do anything for Lucie and her happiness‚ even sacrifice himself for her‚ despite the fact she loves someone else. He is at a point in his life where he is going through some self discovery problems‚ just wanting to be someone. He is the perfect example of a round character‚ and it is good because you really get to feel for him‚ and relate to his struggles in trying to find himself. When he states that he will just walk the streets until morning waiting for and protecting Lucie. As the book states
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physically. Many have given her sympathy‚ including the wife of the cheating aristocrat‚ stating that she only wishes to make amends as her life ambition. Madame Defarge has no care for her. Madame Defarge seeks blood‚ seeks out Darnay‚ Lucie‚ and even little Lucie. Madame Defarge has no sympathy‚ no mercy‚ just like Creon in Antigone. Madame Defarge de-humanize’s herself. Others describe her as an animal‚ she is thinking “It was nothing to her‚ that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his
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Cities</u>‚ and <u>Lord of the Flies</u>.</b></center> <br> <br>There were many deaths throughout both novels that could have been avoided‚ while instead they were lost. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ many people were left to die in the Bastille‚ similar to Dr. Manette; many of who did not deserve to die and could have been saved. Similarly‚ many of the little children died in Lord of the Flies simply do to lack of concern or care for them. In fact the big boys cared so little that they didn’t even know how many
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Madame Defarge takes charge of the women saying‚ "To me‚ women! What! We can kill as well as the men when the place is taken!"(2.21.246) She has no boundaries and no fear. The meeting between Lucie and Madame Defarge makes it absolutely clear that she has lost all ability to feel sympathy or empathy. Lucie falls on her knees‚ begging for mercy on behalf of her child. Madame Defarge stares at her coldly‚ and doesn’t even stop knitting. Her problem‚ it seems‚ is she just doesn’t know where to draw
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Seeds of Death Napoleon Bonaparte once said that‚ “Death is nothing‚ but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily‚” (Napoleon). Before a revolution people are living in their own unglorified and defeated state that kills them inside until they cannot stand another second of their oppressed lives and they rise up to take control of their fate. Sometimes this is for the better‚ sometimes for the worse. In the case of the French Revolution‚ the people rose up but ended up changing the lives
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her own trip back to England. She faces Madame Defarge alone. In the resulting fight‚ Madame Defarge is killed with her own gun. The two women are similar in the sense that they are both very strong and determined. Miss Pross’s total devotion to Lucie is her driving force‚ while Madame Defarge is driven by her complete hatred of the Evrémondes and the aristocrats. The conflict of Miss Pross and Madame Defarge also symbolizes England and France. They are both very patriotic. “You shall not get the
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there would be blood and vengeance. Ironically‚ the red wine was spilled next to the Defarges’ wine shop. Lastly‚ knitting plays a huge role in the deaths of many people. When Madame Defarge is knitting‚ she is condemning people to death—whereas to Lucie‚ she is considered to be the “golden thread” that grasps the family in
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overwhelming that Charles’ execution is not enough; she attempts to gather evidence against his wife‚ Lucie. Instead of meeting and interrogating Lucie‚ though‚ she finds a stubborn Miss Pross‚ who has sworn to protect Lucie. But‚ Madame’s rage against the Evremondes is too much for her to back down that she ends up dying by her own gun. Miss Pross may have given her hearing for the safety of Lucie‚ but Madame gave her life in a failed attempt to “exterminate” the Evremondes (Dickens 638‚
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establish the theme of revenge. As Madame Defarge visits Lucie and her daughter to supposedly comfort them‚ she “[stops] in her work for the first time‚ and [points] her knitting-needle at Little Lucie as if it were the finger of fate” (Dickens 316). Dickens portrays the revengeful Madame Defarge as she does not pity even a little child. This is an evident example of her desire for revenge overpowering her humanity. She decides the fate of Little Lucie as she points her knitting-needle at her‚ which is
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