Nicknames allow inner characteritics to be revealed. Many characters in the novel are referred to as their nicknames in order for the reader to get a glimpse of their personalities. "Although Sydney Caron would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity" (5, 90). Because Carton, like a jackal, performs degrading tasks for his "king," Stryver, the reader sees his actual intelligence and dedication instead of his lazy exterior.
There are so many nicknames in the novel because the characters need the protection of a second identity to survive. The complete lack of trust that any one human being had towards the rest of his chaotic world fueled this. "The highway man in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognized and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped...gallantly shot him through the head and road away." (6) A man will have two completely different lives to make ends meet and will use either life to his full advantage to survive.
The nicknames in the novel are to remind the reader that all the characters have secrets. The whole city of Saint Antoine is populated by people who are compared to a sea on page 229. "The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheavings of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown." This passage reminds the reader that they can never know everything about the people and what they are thinking or even what they are capable of, and theat the reader must always be dig, dig, digging to discover at least some of the secrets behind the wrath of the people.
Nicknames are used to further describe the character and their personality. Specfically referring to Chapter 5 of Book the Second, The Jackal, Carton and Stryver are called the jackal and the lion, their nicknames. "Although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was and amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity." This shows how Carton lives up to his nickname.
Nicknames allow inner characteritics to be revealed. Many characters in the novel are referred to as their nicknames in order for the reader to get a glimpse of their personalities. "Although Sydney Caron would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity" (5, 90). Because Carton, like a jackal, performs degrading tasks for his "king," Stryver, the reader sees his actual intelligence and dedication instead of his lazy exterior.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many nicknames in the novel because the characters need the protection of a second identity to survive. The complete lack of trust that any one human being had towards the rest of his chaotic world fueled this. "The highway man in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognized and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped...gallantly shot him through the head and road away." (6) A man will have two completely different lives to make ends meet and will use either life to his full advantage to survive.
ReplyDeleteThe nicknames in the novel are to remind the reader that all the characters have secrets. The whole city of Saint Antoine is populated by people who are compared to a sea on page 229. "The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheavings of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown." This passage reminds the reader that they can never know everything about the people and what they are thinking or even what they are capable of, and theat the reader must always be dig, dig, digging to discover at least some of the secrets behind the wrath of the people.
ReplyDeleteNicknames are used to further describe the character and their personality. Specfically referring to Chapter 5 of Book the Second, The Jackal, Carton and Stryver are called the jackal and the lion, their nicknames. "Although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was and amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity." This shows how Carton lives up to his nickname.
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