Dickens uses humor in the scene where Miss Pross and her long-lost brother, or so we think, are reunited. Miss Pross "uttered a scream, and clapped her hands" while her " no means affectionate" brother told her to "hold [her] meddlesome tongue." Miss Pross always talks about her brother being away for so many years and never visiting but Solomon was "not surprised [to see his sister and] knew [she] was [there]." So it makes me wonder if he's always kept an eye out for her or known about her whereabouts. Dickens also uses humor when Carton has brought Solomon to Mr. Lorry "playing cards" with him. "He saw the spy was fearful of his drinking himself into a fir state for the immediate denunciation of him. Seeing it, [Sydney] poured out and drank another glassful."
Once again Carton begins to show characteristics of a Christ figure. He wears an all white riding coat and begins to devise a plan to save Darnay and referring to the morning as "death's dominion" the reader can assume Carton's not only thinking about Darnay's threatened death but his own as well. "It was the settled manner of a tired man [Sydney], who had wandered and struggled and got lost, but who at length struck into his road and saw its end."
The setting around Carton while he walks through the town the night before the final trial reminds me of the night in the Garden of Eden when Jesus is taken to be cruicified. "...among the heavy shadows, with the moon and the clouds sailing on high above him." Then Carton says to himself, "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live..." Carton has foreshadowed his death in order to save Darnay's life and the life of the others he loves dearly.
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