Charles Darnay is fake. Instead of telling everyone his family's past upfront, he only tells Dr. Manette when he wants something in return: Lucie's hand in marriage. "My name, though but slightly changed from my mother's, is not, as you will remember, my own. I wish to tell you what that is, and why I am in England" (10, 141). When Darnay asks for Dr. Manette's approval, he seems to use the history of his past as leverage instead of simply telling his secrets to a trusted friend.
(Sarah Cobble) Charles Darnay is a character with an affectation. He appears to love Lucie Manette, but he cannot fully love her when he continuously lies to her about his true identity. Before Darnay and Lucie marry, Charles Darnay speaks with Doctor Manette. After they speak, the reader is lead to believe that Darnay is revealing his secret. "He was so deadly pale/the shrewd glance of Mr Lorry it disclosed some shadowy indication that the old air of avoidance and dread had lately passed over him.(Book 2,18, 201)" This quote describes Doctor Manette after he has spoken with Darnay. The glance that suggested "the old air" autimatically causes the reader to assume that the old air is when Doctor Manette is in prison. The last time we saw this pale face was when he was with Darnay after the trial. Whatever is going on, it is troubling Lucie's father. However, in the same paragraph, Lucie and Darnay leave happily married. Why does he not tell Lucie the truth? In this way,Charles Darnay is deceitful.
Charles Darnay is haunted by his past. Darnay faced his death young because he was trying to redo mistakes from his and his families' pasts, but thankfully was "ACQUITTED" (82)."Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them..was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life" (68).".hat, the proof would go back five years, and would show the prisoner already engaged in these pernicious missions..."(69). Thanks to his past, Charles Darnay almost got killed, and also makes him very suspicious for we haven't found out what his past truly is.
Charles Darnay is fake. Instead of telling everyone his family's past upfront, he only tells Dr. Manette when he wants something in return: Lucie's hand in marriage. "My name, though but slightly changed from my mother's, is not, as you will remember, my own. I wish to tell you what that is, and why I am in England" (10, 141). When Darnay asks for Dr. Manette's approval, he seems to use the history of his past as leverage instead of simply telling his secrets to a trusted friend.
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ReplyDeleteCharles Darnay is a character with an affectation. He appears to love Lucie Manette, but he cannot fully love her when he continuously lies to her about his true identity. Before Darnay and Lucie marry, Charles Darnay speaks with Doctor Manette. After they speak, the reader is lead to believe that Darnay is revealing his secret. "He was so deadly pale/the shrewd glance of Mr Lorry it disclosed some shadowy indication that the old air of avoidance and dread had lately passed over him.(Book 2,18, 201)" This quote describes Doctor Manette after he has spoken with Darnay. The glance that suggested "the old air" autimatically causes the reader to assume that the old air is when Doctor Manette is in prison. The last time we saw this pale face was when he was with Darnay after the trial. Whatever is going on, it is troubling Lucie's father. However, in the same paragraph, Lucie and Darnay leave happily married. Why does he not tell Lucie the truth? In this way,Charles Darnay is deceitful.
Charles Darnay is haunted by his past. Darnay faced his death young because he was trying to redo mistakes from his and his families' pasts, but thankfully was "ACQUITTED" (82)."Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them..was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life" (68).".hat, the proof would go back five years, and would show the prisoner already engaged in these pernicious missions..."(69). Thanks to his past, Charles Darnay almost got killed, and also makes him very suspicious for we haven't found out what his past truly is.
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