The significance of the plane-tree is ominous and threatening. On page 219, the echoes are compared to an angry bull. "An unruly charger, whip corrected, snorting and pawing at the earth under the plane tree in the garden!" The echoes are compared to the bull, angry and ready to charge, threatening the safety of any onlookers. Ominous and threatening things tend to happen in the garden under that tree.
The plane-tree is the peaceful place where Lucie and her father can enjoy each other’s company. The night before Lucie’s marriage to Darnay, father and daughter want to spend their last night together in the stillness of the evening. “Never did the moon rise with a milder radiance over great London, than on that night when it found them still seated under the tree, and shown upon their faces through its leaves” (194). There is nothing threatening about the tree, its significance is that it is simply there for the Manettes to be with each other in tranquility.
The significance of the plane-tree is ominous and threatening. On page 219, the echoes are compared to an angry bull. "An unruly charger, whip corrected, snorting and pawing at the earth under the plane tree in the garden!" The echoes are compared to the bull, angry and ready to charge, threatening the safety of any onlookers. Ominous and threatening things tend to happen in the garden under that tree.
ReplyDeleteThe plane-tree is the peaceful place where Lucie and her father can enjoy each other’s company. The night before Lucie’s marriage to Darnay, father and daughter want to spend their last night together in the stillness of the evening. “Never did the moon rise with a milder radiance over great London, than on that night when it found them still seated under the tree, and shown upon their faces through its leaves” (194). There is nothing threatening about the tree, its significance is that it is simply there for the Manettes to be with each other in tranquility.
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