By Charles Dickens. Plot Summarys a It is the year. , and England and France are undergoing a period of social Bolenjabvhatcs and turmoil. Lucie Manette is a young woman who has been as an orphan and a ward (gLU..ssL8) of Tellson's bank. She learns tl r father is alive and has recently been released from prison after eight years of unjust imprisonment. She travels to the French suburb of Antoine with Mr. Jarvis Lorry. Mr. Lorry is a longtime Tellson's cree and had managed her father's affairs before his imprisonment. merging er father at the home of Ernest Defarge, who has housed the doctor,si father is on the brink of insanity, she “a his release. Though her vows that she will recover him. The family returns to London. After ti te doctor begins to recover and resumes his practice. Though, he oecasienally returns back to his trance-like state, he slowly returns to hims; isch ughout the process, he and Lucie become extremely close. & After a period of five years, Lucie and her father are called to testify in the trial of Charles Darna, Harles Darnay is a French citizen and London resident and has bee! d of treason against England. Lucie reluctantly gives circumstanti ohice against Darnay. However, Darnay is ultimately saved when a wit! cannot positively indentify Darnay because of his striking resemblance wii ney Carton, a lawyer in the court. Darnay is ultimately freed, and thi; mstance draws everyone involved closer together. Darnay, along with orry, becomes a friend of the family, and Sydney Carton become: ular visitor. Sydney is not welcome one--he is frequently drunk, Rhu and vulgar in his manner. Though the others complain of janner, one evening he told Lucie that she has awakened feelings in She asks if she can help him, and he says no, but that he wants her to iow that he cares for her deeply. Lucie eventually marries Darnay. A year passes. Darnay returns to France to attend to the business. He pays a visit to his uncle. His uncle is a corrupt aristocrat and is so cruel that when his carriage driver recklessly ran over and killed a peasant's child, he blamed the peasants for being in the way. Dannay’s uncle is murdered at his chateau when he was there. ‘mail: ifitkharrizvi@2) Darnay returns to England, and several more years pass. He and Lucie have a daughter. One day, Mr. Lorry tells to Darnay that he has received a letter addressed to a Marquis St. Everyone in care of Tellson's. Darnay says that he knows the man and will deliver the letter. In truth, Darnay is the Marquis St. Evrémonde, a descendant of the corrupt rulers of France. The letter) is from an old friend who has been put in prison unjustly and who fears that.he will soon be executed. Darnay realizes that he must go. He leaves for France without telling his wife. He quickly realizes th: situation is worse than he could have imagined. A Revolution has ta, the peasants have overthrown the government and are murderin: they feel represents the old guard. Darnay is immediately taken though he tries desperately to explain that unlike his uncle arate he is on the peasants' side and wants to help them. They disregard pF stimony, and none other than Ernest Defarge, who has since become a lutionary, sends Darnay to prison. By this time, Lucie and her father ravine that Darnay has returned to France, aware that Darnay is probahyye rave danger; they reached France to help him. Mr. Lorry is also presé ings care of Tellson’s French office. The Revolutionaries treat Dr. Manette ds a hero. When Darnay is tried for his life in fro a corrupt tribunal Dr. Manette's testimony saves him. He is freed’ ut before even one day passes, a leading Revolutionist, who wants ft whole Evremonde family. On the following day Darnay is tried, iat and sentenced to death by the tribunal. TOM i: he is re-arrested because of woreda (Ernest's cruel and vengeful wife), Dr. Manette, knows that the sitt is hopeless and shattered by the trial, reverts to his old abnormal state, By this time, Sydney Cartot “has arrived in Paris. He learns about Darnay’s new trial and impeding exeq He also overhears (LJ yw —w Slail) a plot against the lives of, Nhe: father and her daughter. Acting quickly, he tells Mr. Lorry to have rriage prepared an hour before the execution. He reaches to the prison on lay of Charles' execution with the help of a spy (wow) and an inform; it once he gets inside, he uses his physical resemblance to rs Dannay’s cell and drugs him. He then exchanges clothing he spy smuggles Darnay out of the prison and into a waiting carria it also includes Dr. Manette, Lucie, and Mr. Lorry. He tells no one of his i, id not even the Manettes know it. They are waiting in their carriage ‘on, fully expecting that he will join them and that they will leave France ‘a hurry. The rest of the family is in danger because of Madame Defarge, who wants to denounce all of them. The peasant that the Evrémonde brothers murdered was her brother, and she wants revenge against Darnay and his entire family. The spy smuggles Charles to the waiting carriage, and the family escapes France. Carton, however, goes to the guillotine and dies for Lucie, fulfilling his promise to her that he would die "to keep a life you love beside[3] you." Just before he dies, he thinks to himself that his final act is far better than anything else he has ever done. Just before he is beheaded, Sydney Carton prophesied for a better society emerging from the holocaust (issly ».SoJle) and of his own survival in the memories of the Darnay family, and he faces death in serenity (lixobl gS) and triumph. N, Q41: ‘ > What is the significance of the title of the novel Tale of Two Cities”? . oO Answer: nswer: The title, “A Tale of Two Cities”, is symbolic an ificant as the novel describes the incidents revolving around the twogities-London and Paris- against the background of the French Revolutio: ‘vents in the two cities are artistically balanced by the writer. The altern: movement between the two cities highlights the contrast between ther. Before the present title is decide: various other titles. In the preface to “y idea of this novel came while he w came to his mind. He thought a] te Thread of Gold”, “The Doctor oft vais”, “Recalled to Life”. But finally he settled for “A Tale of Two Citi . “Buried Alive” would only have been Dr. Manett’s story. “Recalled t¢ tife” would also have been appropriate as most of the characters, Lucie, Cl orbs Sydney, Jarvis Lorry, Jerry Cruncher and Dr. Manette, are recalled Mie r resurrected (L,S 01); 59)) in some way or the other. However, tha&title “A Tale of Two Cities” is even more appropriate and symbolic as it a: universal significance. harles Dickens thought about le of Two Cities”, he says that the g in Frozen Deep. Various other titles uried Alive”, “One of Those Days”, “The In fact tl as if they io cities, London and Paris, are introduced at the beginning ‘wo characters. London as well as Paris is being administrated badly. I lon, robberies are common, religious intolerance; superstitions, srenjafes are dominant. The priest, military officers, nobility, aristocrats are, rrupt. Spiritually, socially and politically, there are no moral ard . People are victims of the divine rights of the nobility and of fate. @ poor and the rich are robbing and being robbed. The hangman ( susilpy.sVe| Vlg iss) too is busy in hanging people for miscellaneous deeds, ranging from murders to small thefts. Law and order is in a sad state. Paris is not in a better state. Death lurks (LI oS) in every nook and corner as the ruthless aristocrats exploit the masses. The monarchy ( svlo xegS>) is equally corrupt. Economic instability is accompanied by prejudice, 2300615