Foreshadowing occurs in chapter 13 on page 137 when Sydney Carton is pacing the streets. "His feet became animated by and intention..." just like Dr. Mannette's feet when he paces his office with Lucie after she catches him making shoes again. The doctor's need for pacing shows he was in a state of darkness so when Carton "...vaguely and unhappily..." wanders the dark streets for "many a night" it symbolises darkness coming into or exsisting in his life and foreshadows his dowfall. Also, just like Dr. Mannete's sanity is wholely based on his and Lucie's relationship, Carton is also in a dark depression because of the type of relationship he'll never have with Lucie and he goes to her for "comfort" to tell her his feelings so they die with him.
Carton also foreshadows his death in the same chapter on page 139. He says he is "...nothing, doing no service, idly burning away...Let me carry through the rest of my misdirected life, the remembrance that I opened my heart to you, last of all the world...I draw fast to an end...my last avowal of myself was made to you"
More symbolism and foreshadowing is displayed why Young Jerry discovers that his father is a Resurrection-Man. He was "...so terrified...that he made off, with his hair as stiff as his father's."Then, the next day when they're both heading off to work fro the bank Young Jerry exclaimed that he "...should so like to be a Resurrection-Man when [he's] quite growed up."
Monday, January 28, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Tale of Two Cities 2
Doctor Manette has begun to recieve patients "as his old reputation" and has recovered his "scientific knowledge, and his vigilance and skill in conductin gingenious experiments." Also, "in a corner [of his room], stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools." This shows the doctor's improvement back into having a normal life. Except the nightmares he has certain nights and the unnerving pacing that he does late at night. But, like always, his daughter is there to give him the comfort he needs to calm down, proving my forshadow from my last blog is still liable.
There is foreshadowing in the sixth paragraph on page 89. It states "that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach. Not only would the echoes die away, as though the stops had gone...However, father and daughter did at last appear..." It seems that the doctor is comfortable with his life right now; he's gotten through the roughest pieces of getting used to a normal lifestyle again, but may that's just an illusion both he and Dickens gives the reader. His nightmares prove there is still something going wrong in his head and he hasn't settled yet. So this passage could foreshadow an even greater darkness "the father and daughter" are heading into and it seems as if they wont make it out alive, but in the end they survive.
More foreshadowing on page 93 when the group in the doctor's house is talking about the echoing footsteps but the window when it begins to rain. Miss Manette is describing how she will "[sit] alone [there]...listening, until [she has] made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the foorsteps that are coming by-and-by into [thier] lives." She is talking about the rabelion that is soon to come from all the "poor" societies and the other characters in the book that they will come in contact with eventually. Then Mr. Darney responds by saying "There is a great crowd coming one day into out lives.." He says it sarcastically ("in his moody way") but it still accompanies the foreshadow that Lucie just described.
There is foreshadowing in the sixth paragraph on page 89. It states "that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach. Not only would the echoes die away, as though the stops had gone...However, father and daughter did at last appear..." It seems that the doctor is comfortable with his life right now; he's gotten through the roughest pieces of getting used to a normal lifestyle again, but may that's just an illusion both he and Dickens gives the reader. His nightmares prove there is still something going wrong in his head and he hasn't settled yet. So this passage could foreshadow an even greater darkness "the father and daughter" are heading into and it seems as if they wont make it out alive, but in the end they survive.
More foreshadowing on page 93 when the group in the doctor's house is talking about the echoing footsteps but the window when it begins to rain. Miss Manette is describing how she will "[sit] alone [there]...listening, until [she has] made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the foorsteps that are coming by-and-by into [thier] lives." She is talking about the rabelion that is soon to come from all the "poor" societies and the other characters in the book that they will come in contact with eventually. Then Mr. Darney responds by saying "There is a great crowd coming one day into out lives.." He says it sarcastically ("in his moody way") but it still accompanies the foreshadow that Lucie just described.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Tale of Two Cities 1
The "LARGE cask of whine" having been broken on the street sent the poor citizens scrambling for the taste of it. The whine left stains of their face, hands, and feet and was described to look like "blood". This scene could foreshadow all the peoples' secrets being exposed and them feeding off of eachother, not very literally. Or it could foreshadow the poorer citizen's revolt against the more wealthy. Then when the whine store keeper, Mr. Defarge, returns to his store he has a conversation with three other men and they all greeted eachother with the same name, Jacques. That name has to have some sort of hidden meaning that only that group of people understand.
Mr. Manette's name is no longer his own; instead it is his prison cell number and location, On Hundred Five North Tower. After 18 years of being imprisoned I can understand why he would eventually go by that name. Think of the situation like someone being adopted after already being named, but the new parents call you something else so, of course, after 18 years of being called by that name you would prefer it over your first name. Like in Mr. Manette's situation, the person may even forget their first name.
In the tower cell where Mr. Manette is kept for his own comfort, there is one thing that he's kept locked up in his mind and hasn't forgotten. "...he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scarp of folded rag attached to it. He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one of two long golden hairs..." These strands of hair perfectly matched those of his daughter's. Another thing that might be meant for Miss Manette is the shoe her father is working on. He says "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe." Maybe he was thinking of his wife or daughter when he bagan making this pair.
"She nestled down with him, that his head might lie upon her arm; and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light...The darkness deepened and deepened, as they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall." This foreshadows the experience that the father and daughter will encounter together. Ms. Manette is going to walk patiently by her father's side and gradually lead him to the light but in order to begin she has to build from the ground up. So she starts with where he is now, in the darkness. Ms. Manette lowers herself down to the cold, cement ground where her father is lying and eventually "...light [will gleam] through the...wall" Mr. Manette has built up. Maybe he'll begin to remember his past once again!
Mr. Manette's name is no longer his own; instead it is his prison cell number and location, On Hundred Five North Tower. After 18 years of being imprisoned I can understand why he would eventually go by that name. Think of the situation like someone being adopted after already being named, but the new parents call you something else so, of course, after 18 years of being called by that name you would prefer it over your first name. Like in Mr. Manette's situation, the person may even forget their first name.
In the tower cell where Mr. Manette is kept for his own comfort, there is one thing that he's kept locked up in his mind and hasn't forgotten. "...he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scarp of folded rag attached to it. He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one of two long golden hairs..." These strands of hair perfectly matched those of his daughter's. Another thing that might be meant for Miss Manette is the shoe her father is working on. He says "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe." Maybe he was thinking of his wife or daughter when he bagan making this pair.
"She nestled down with him, that his head might lie upon her arm; and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light...The darkness deepened and deepened, as they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall." This foreshadows the experience that the father and daughter will encounter together. Ms. Manette is going to walk patiently by her father's side and gradually lead him to the light but in order to begin she has to build from the ground up. So she starts with where he is now, in the darkness. Ms. Manette lowers herself down to the cold, cement ground where her father is lying and eventually "...light [will gleam] through the...wall" Mr. Manette has built up. Maybe he'll begin to remember his past once again!
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