The echoes foreshadow that Lucie's life will be stained with death. Echoes are heard even though the footsteps are no longer there: "Not only would the echoes die away, as though the steps had gone; but, echoes of other steps that never came, would be heard in their stead, and would die away for good," (6, 95). The echoes of the footsteps slowly receding symbolize people who are disappearing from her life through death.
The echoes in this novel are directly linked to love, particularly foreshadowing love that will be lost. In Chapter 21, "Echoing Footsteps" the echoes in Lucie's head are centered around her husband, children, and Mr. Carton. "Among the echoes then, there would arise the sound of footseps at her own early grave; and thoughts of her husband who would be left so desolate" and as well "one other thing regarding [Mr. Carton]was whispered in the echoes" that "No man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her...when she was a wife and mother" (21, 218-219). These quotes, discussing "lost love" foreshadow the early death of Lucie and the love of Mr. Carton that is still true.
Echoes are a direct representation of the world surrounding the focus of the story. The echoes are a kind of look into what is to come. "Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody's life, footsteps not easily made clean once stained red, the footsteps raging in Saint Antoine afar off, as the little circle sat in the dark London window."(21,220) In this part of the story, though the people in London are unaware of the Revolution beginning, the footsteps warn that something "headlong, mad, and dangerous" this way comes.
The echoes in the book are used to foreshadow the revolution. Chapter 21 "there were other echoes, from a distance, that rumbled menacingly in the corner all through this space of time." These "menacing" echoes "began to have an awful sound, as of a great storm in France with a dreadful sea rising." The echoes show the reader the beginnings of the intense revolution "rising. "
The echoes foreshadow that Lucie's life will be stained with death. Echoes are heard even though the footsteps are no longer there: "Not only would the echoes die away, as though the steps had gone; but, echoes of other steps that never came, would be heard in their stead, and would die away for good," (6, 95). The echoes of the footsteps slowly receding symbolize people who are disappearing from her life through death.
ReplyDeleteThe echoes in this novel are directly linked to love, particularly foreshadowing love that will be lost. In Chapter 21, "Echoing Footsteps" the echoes in Lucie's head are centered around her husband, children, and Mr. Carton. "Among the echoes then, there would arise the sound of footseps at her own early grave; and thoughts of her husband who would be left so desolate" and as well "one other thing regarding [Mr. Carton]was whispered in the echoes" that "No man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her...when she was a wife and mother" (21, 218-219). These quotes, discussing "lost love" foreshadow the early death of Lucie and the love of Mr. Carton that is still true.
ReplyDeleteEchoes are a direct representation of the world surrounding the focus of the story. The echoes are a kind of look into what is to come. "Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody's life, footsteps not easily made clean once stained red, the footsteps raging in Saint Antoine afar off, as the little circle sat in the dark London window."(21,220) In this part of the story, though the people in London are unaware of the Revolution beginning, the footsteps warn that something "headlong, mad, and dangerous" this way comes.
ReplyDeleteThe echoes in the book are used to foreshadow the revolution. Chapter 21 "there were other echoes, from a distance, that rumbled menacingly in the corner all through this space of time." These "menacing" echoes "began to have an awful sound, as of a great storm in France with a dreadful sea rising." The echoes show the reader the beginnings of the intense revolution "rising.
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