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Love The Redeemer In A Tale Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

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Love the Redeemer
Love has a way of making people act in ways they usually wouldn’t despite having a hard headed personality since the day they were born. In the story “A Tale of Two Cities”, by Charles Dickens, protagonists both young and old play key roles in the French revolution while dealing with the drama of their daily lives in a pre-Napoleonic world. The characters of Dickens book are a beaming example of the stories theme of being “recalled to life.” Despite all the hardships the protagonists of “A Tale of Two Cities” come across, they prove that love has the power to heal, comfort, and redeem.
Lucie Manette is a prime example of using love to heal through the story as she navigates her relationships with both men and her father. For example, when discussing Lucie’s ability to heal the relationship with her father Dickens says “Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind. She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery, and to a present beyond his misery….” This shows how she heals both the bond between father and daughter and her own father 's sanity and happiness using only her love. Another example of Lucie Manette 's usage of love to heal people around her is actually how her character foil, Madame Defarge, uses hate and anger to rally people as she says “...We can kill as well as the men when the place is taken.” This shows how oppositely the two operate and because Madame Defarge uses fury to make others

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