https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t Within the characters of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, Dickens embeds all the inherent messages within his novel as a whole. Understanding Sydney and Charles is a key to recognizing the author's paradoxes and use of duality. - Complete each box with at least one quote. - These quotes must be precise and accurate. - utilize unique introductions and correct parenthetical citations. - This assignment will be worked out throughout multiple weeks; the due date will move along with Check Points. -Refer to the Schoology directions for each Check Point's requirements. en-us 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC 2026-02-17 21:20:00 UTC hello@padlet.com staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122680 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122680 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122681 Sydney's last words were, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known" (Dickens 330). He knows that what he is doing is important and that he has never done anything as important in his life compared to this. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122681 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122682 Sydney is a rude and aggressive man. He asks Darnay, "Do you think I particularly like you?” (Dickens 73). Darnay answers saying that he didn't think about it. Sydney forcefully says, “But ask yourself the question now” (73). After a bit, Sydney says, “I don’t think I do” (73). This is very rude to tell a person in the face. Then, he even tells Darney that he has a "sober face" (74).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122682 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122685 Sydney is a drunk that cares about nothing but wine. He shows this in a depressive and agressive tone when he says, “Nothing in life! ... Do you call the whole reckoning? ... bring me another pint of this same wine, drawer, and come and wake me at ten” (Dickens 73-4). The surprising part is that he knows it. He admits to Darnay that he is "a disappointed drudge" (74). He later says, "I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me” (74). ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122685 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122687 Sydney was described as a "wigged gentleman with his hands in his pockets" and was staring at the ceiling, which shows that he didn't care about anything and didn't want anything to do with the case (Dickens 54).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122687 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122690 Sydney takes care of the young woman that was going to killed for no reason, just like her. He held her hand and comforted her while the other's heads were chopped off. "Keep your eyes upon me, dear child, and mind no other object" he said, showing compassion (Dickens 328). Carton wanted to make sure that she was comforted because he had a good heart. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122690 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122691  Mr. Cruncher said, "I'd hold half a guinea that he don't get no law-work to do. don't  look like the sort of one to get any, do he?" (Dickens 67). The others doubted him and think that Mr. Carton is not a good worker. Although he may seem lousy and drunk, he still does work very well. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122691 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122693 Stryver tells Sydney that he's a terrible person. He says that Sydney's "way is, and always was, a lame way" (Dickens 78). He also adds that he desires "no energy and purpose" (78). ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122693 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122695 Sydney Carton is caring and has a good heart. He shows this when he gives away his life for Lucie, Charles, and their little girl. When Carton comes to Darnay to swap spots with him, Darnay says, "Carton, there is no escaping from this place; it never can be done. You will only die with me. It's madness” (Dickens 307). Carton doesn't agree with this and replies, “It would be madness if I asked you to escape; but do I? When I ask you to pass out at that door, tell me it is madness and remain here” (307). Even though Darnay thinks that it's nonsense to do this, Carton still has hope and demands Darnay to keep swapping clothes with him.]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122695 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122697 Sydney Carton is a drunk and he doesn't want anything else in life but to drink. Although he could have been successful, his decisions in life brought him down. He knows that he is not the best person and he knows all of the things he could have been. Realizing all of this he tells Miss Manette, "I am like one who died young. All my life might have been" (150). He knows that he did wrong and that he wasn't doing right and that he shut himself down from the beginning.]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122697 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122701 Darney says that “before Shrewsbury, and at Shrewsbury, and ever since Shrewsbury,” Carton was the same old trouble-maker and gloomy person (Dickens 78).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122701 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122703 Sydney did everything for the other students even in the school days. He would "exercise for other boys, and seldom did my own" (Dickens 77-8).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122703 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122705 Sydney seemed like the worst person, but in reality, he was "Stryver’s great ally. ...Although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity" (Dickens 75). He wanted to still feel like he is doing something right. He lets Stryver speak to him despairingly because he thinks bad of himself, either way, so he doesn't stop Stryver. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122705 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122710 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122710 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122715 Dickens descriptively shows the simpleness of Charles Darney, when saying that he's  "a young man of about five-and-twenty, well-grown and well-looking, with a sunburnt cheek and a dark eye....[He was] dressed in black, or very dark grey, and his hair, which was long and dark, was gathered in a ribbon at the back of his neck" (Dickens 55).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122715 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122716 Darnay is a respectful man that shows his manners. He is quiet and meek. He thinks before he speaks and knows when the right times are to talk and not to talk. When Sydney was talking to him about Miss Manette, Darnay was shy when the text states, "Again Darnay answered not a word" (Dickens 73).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122716 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122717 Charles has a good heart and he is caring for other people. He says, “It is a painful reflection to me ... that I should have done him any wrong. I never thought this of him” (Dickens 182). Saying this, he shows that hurting someone else hurts him.]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122717 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122718 Charles Darnay is a polite and formal man. Darnay is also respectful, compassionate, and caring. He clearly shows this when he tells Lucie's father, "my fortune were so cast as that, being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I must at any time put any separation between her and you" (Dickens 117). He understands the relationship between Lucie and her father. He decides to check with the father for permission and approval before he asks Lucie what she thinks. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122718 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122721 Defarge and his wife are having a conversation about how terrible it is that Miss Manette married Darnay. They say that they hope Darnay doesn't come to France. Defrage calls Darnay an "infernal dog” when he finds out that Darnay is Monsieur the Marquis's nephew (Dickens 161).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122721 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122722 Darnay thinks that he is responsible for everything, so he tries to do things that he shouldn't do. His actions are very risky and dangerous. He lets his feelings take control over him and doesn't think of the consequences. Charles Darnay tells Mr. Lorry, "One cannot help thinking, having had some sympathy for the miserable people, and having abandoned something to them" (Dickens 206).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122722 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122723 Charles Darnay has a good heart. He cares for people (even in the lower classes). Knowing that he could be killed, he still risked talking to the Marquis, when he says, “We have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong" (Dickens 108). The Marquis doesn't know what he is talking about when he asks what that's supposed to mean, Darnay replies saying, "Our honourable family, whose honour is of so much account to both of us, in such different ways. Even in my father’s time, we did a world of wrong, injuring every human creature who came between us and our pleasure, whatever it was" (108).]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122723 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122725 Both Sydney and Charles have a massive crush on Miss Manette. Although they have different ways in letting her know, they both like her and are attracted to her. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122725 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122726 Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay both look alike. When at court, the witness against Darnay resulted as incorrect and wrong: He wasn't sure which one of them did it because they looked so similar. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122726 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122727 Both Carton and Darney didn't like how Marquis St Evremonde treated the poor because he didn't have any respect for the people in poverty. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122727 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122729 Sydney comes to Miss Manette to tell her about his feelings. He tells her that he likes her and he wants her to be the first person to find out. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122729 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122733 Sydney is a drunk and he hates himself. He cares for no one except for a good wine. He is always wanting to drink and he talks a lot of trash about himself.]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122733 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122735 Sydney Carton was originally from England. His job occupation was as a legal aide to a London barrister.]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122735 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122736 Charles Darnay came to Lucie's father to ask for permission before telling Lucie about his crush on her. This was a way of showing respect towards the father and the whole family. ]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122736 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122738 Charles Darney is a young nobleman. He was originally from France, but no one knew since he changed his name, sold his property, and many other things to get his name out of France's history.]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122738 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122740 Mr. Darnay is caring and compassionate. He is very modest and formal. When he's described at the court, he seemed very confident and was really elegant.]]> 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122740 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122741 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122741 staseipop https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122742 2021-05-04 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/staseipop/t7d23imscett0w5t/wish/1491122742