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A Tale Of Two Cities |
Essay: Book 3 Chapter 5 |
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In this chapter we could say the main character is Charles Darnay because it mostly talks about how he is in great danger. Lucie,which is now Darnay’s wife and had a baby with him, is really depressed, sad and scared during the whole chapter because she doesn’t want her husband to die in the guillotine. In this chapter we alsofind a new character, the Wood-sawyer. The main theme in this chapter is death because all it talks about is Darnay’s death in the guillotine. Another theme could be mourning because of Lucie’sdepression.
What is most important about this chapter is that Darnay is in danger because maybe he is set to die in the guillotine. But Dr. Manette told Lucie he will do anything to get Darnay out of prison.He also tells Lucie that there is a way for Darnay to see her, by standing in front of a small wood-sawyer’s hut from which Darnay can climb up a window and see her. This idea makes Lucie a littlehappy and she starts going to the wood-sawyer’s hut every day to stand there and look at the prison’s window, hoping that someday she will be able to see him again. Every day, when she is standing therein front of the hut, the wood sawyer talks to her. One day, Lucie was there with her daughter and the wood sawyer started talking about his saw, and that he calls it “little saint guillotine”. Then hetold Lucie that the saw was the guillotine and the wood he was cutting were the heads of the prisoners and he started singing “la la la la la, and off goes his head!” “Loo loo loo, and off goes herhead!” “Tickle tickle, pickle pickle, and off goes the child’s head too!”. This could be either a foreshadowing or maybe the wood sawyer could be mocking Lucie. One day, Lucie came and the woodsawyer’s hut was closed and she was happy to be alone in there with her daughter, when suddenly, a group of people came dancing and singing and screaming. It was a very violent dance. They where hitting...