THE TALE OF TWO

CITIES
CH 11 AND 12
• PUBLISHED IN 1859
• LITERACY PERIOD: VICTORIAN ERA
• GENRE:HISTORICAL NOVEL
• SETTING:LONDON AND PARIS
• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:FRENCH
REVOLUTION
 CHARACTERS OF TALE OF TWO
CITIES
 DR. ALEXANDER MANETTE
 LUCIE MANETTE
 SYDNEY CARTON
 CHARLES DARNAY
 JARVIS LORRY
 MONSIEUR ERNEST DEFARGE
 MADAME DEFRAGE
 MARQUIS EVREMONDE
 DR. ALEXANDER MANETTE
• 18 YEAR IMPRISONMENT- BASTILLE PRISON
 LUCIE MANETTE
• DAUGHTER OF ALEXANDER MANETTE
 CHARLES DARNAY
• HE WAS AN FRENCH MAN.
• HE WAS FROM ARISTROCRATIC FAMILY. HE DOES NOT TO LIKE
TO LIVE IN FRENCH. SO, HE LIVES IN ENGLAND.
 SYDNEY CARTON
• HE WAS AN GENTLEMAN.
HE WAS WORKING TO MR STRYVER AS A ASSISTANT.
 JARVIS, MADAME DEFRAGE,
MONSIEUR ERNEST DEFRAGE
• THESE GUYS HAVING AN WINESHOP IN FRENCH
• THEY GAVE MORE IMPORTANCE FOR THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION.
 MARQUIS EVREMONDE
• CHARLES DARNAY UNCLE.
• HE WAS AN ARISTOCRATER
• IT WAS 1775.
• IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES,IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES.
• THE MESSAGE FOR JARVIS LORRY BY JERRY CRUNCHER, AN EMPLOYEE OF
TELLSONS BANK IN LONDON
• MEETING LUCIE MANETTE
• IN FRANCE THEY MEET ERNEST DEFRAGE AND HIS WIFE MADAME
DEFRAGE OF A WINE SHOP.
• THE DISTURBED DR. MANATTE IDENTIFIES LUCIE’S BLUE EYES AND
GOLDEN HAIR
• FIVE YEARS PASS
• CHARLES DARNAY ON TRIAL
• DARNAY’S ATTORNEY IS MR. STRYVER
• SYDNEY CARTON,THE ASSISTANT OF MR.STRYVER IS LOOKING SAME AS DARNAY
• IN FRANCE, MARQUIS ST. EVREMONDE RUNS OVER AND KILLS A CHILD WITH HIS CARRIAGE AND TOSSES A GOLD COIN IN
RESPONSE.
• COIN FLUG BACK TO HIS CARRIAGE
• CHARLES DARNAY IS THE NEPHEW OF MARQUIS
• MARQUIS MURDERED THAT NIGHT
• CARTON CONFESSES HIS LOVE TO LUCIE, BUT DOES NOT PROPOSE.
• DARNAY PROPOSES LUCIE AND SHE ACCEPTS
• DARNAY REVEALS HIS REAL NAME AND FAMILY LINEAGE TO DR.MANETTE
• CHARLES DARNAY AND LUCIE GET MARRIED
• DR.MANETTE IN STRESS
• DARNAY AND LUCIE HAVE A DAUGHTER.
• CARTON BECOMES A CLOSE FRIEND
• IN JULY 1789 THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE PRISONIS LED BY THE DEFRAGES
• 105 NORTH TOWER
• PEOPLE RISE AND THE ARISTOCRATES ARE BEHEADED
• 1792
• DARNAY RECIEVES A LETTER FROM THE STEWARD TO SAVE HIM
• DARNAY GOES TO FRANCE
• HE IS CAUGHT BY THE REVOLUTIONARIES AND IMPRISONED
• DR.MANETTE’S HELP
• THE IMMEDIATE NEW TRIAL
• THE STORY OF THE PEASANT GIRL AND THE EVREMONDES
• MADAME DEFRAGE’S IDENTITY REVEALED
• THE PLAN EXTENDS TO LUCIE AND LITTLE LUCY
• THE ROLE OF SYDNEY CARTON
• CARTON URGES LORRY TO FLEE PARIS WITH LUCIE , HER FATHER, AND
LITTLE LUCIE ASKING THEM TO LEAVE AS SOON AS HE JOINS
• SOLOMON SNEAKS CARTON INTO THE PRISON
• MADAME DEFRAGE KILLS HERSELF TRYING TO FIGHT WITH MISS PROSS
• SYDNEY CARTON MEETS A SEAMSTRESS
• CARTON IS GUILLOTINED AND HE ACCEPTS DEATH WILLINGLY