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!