Love Between Lucie Manette And Her Father example essay topic

Love and hate are both emotions that are used in our attempt to express ourselves to certain people. Like it or not, although hate is more sinister of the two, without hate, the scales would be upset. We cannot always get the best of everything. However, in the novel ' A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens, hate only adds to the story's appeal.

In the novel, both emotions are displayed by the characters in the book through the actions they carry out and the words that they speak, even though it can be justified that there are more examples of love than hate. The love between Lucie Manette and her father, as well as that of Charles Darney and Lucie and indeed many other characters are just some of the many examples of love. The more baleful emotion of hate is also revealed many times in the novel, by the French commoners and especially by Madame Defarge when it came to Charles Darney being an aristocrat and the suffering of her own family. The first strong example of love we read about in the novel is that of Lucie Manette and her father, Dr Manette who has been kept in the Bastille for eighteen years. Lucie meets him with the help of another character, Mr Jav is Lorry, and tells her father that his agony is over and that she " ll bring him to London and away from his previous sufferings. Later in the story, the night before Lucie is to be wedded to Charles Darney, we learn that Lucie has saved her last day as a single woman to be with her father and to reassure him that she " ll still be with him even though she is to be married.

"Lucie was to be married tomorrow. She had reserved this last evening for her father, and they sat alone under the plane-tree. ' (Pg 174) Throughout the whole conversation with her father that evening, it is evident that her love for her father prevails even that between Charles and herself. "If I had never seen Charles, my father, I should have been quite happy with you. ' (Pg 175) The affection for her father does not go only one way.

Her father's for Lucie is also clear as we can see by the following quote: "Quite sure my darling! More than that, my future is far brighter, Lucie, seen through your marriage, than it could have been – nay, than it ever was – without it. '. "Believe it, love! Indeed it is so.

You, devoted and young, cannot fully appreciate the anxiety I have felt that your life should not be wasted- wasted for my sake. Your unselfishness cannot entirely comprehend how much my mind has gone on this; but, only ask yourself, how could my happiness be perfect while yours was incomplete?' (Pg 174-175) That is only one example of Dr Manette's love for his only daughter. Another example that can be used to justify that Dr Manette truly does love his daughter is one where Dr Manette willingly, but with some reluctance, gives up his old occupation as a shoemaker as well as his tools so as to ensure that he doesn't fall back into depression and worry Lucie who was on her honeymoon at that time. It was difficult for Dr Manette but still, he went through with it, only because he realised that firstly, it wouldn't do him any good to go back to seek comfort in the thing that kept him from going ultimately crazy during his period of captivity in the Bastille, and secondly, he knew that if he carried on the way he did, Lucie would worry day and night and hence be affected by his behaviour, and not be happy when she's supposed to be. In the first parts of Book Three, Dr Manette helps to protect Charles Darney after he was captured by the French commoners and manages to free him after some time.

During that time, Lucie, whose affection for Charles Darney reached a high point after he was imprisoned in the Bastille and after their first child was born, stood outside a window in the Bastille everyday in all weathers so that Charles could see her when he walked past even when it was impossible for Lucie herself to see him. In other words, he could see her, but she could not see him. She begs Madame Defarge, who undoubtedly hates all the French aristocrats to help Charles and not harm him. "As a wife and a mother, I implore you to have pity on me and not to exercise any power that you possess, against my innocent husband, but to use it in his behalf. ' (Pg 256) She teaches their daughter, little Lucie the way that she would have been taught had they been in London instead of Paris, and prepares herself of Charles's return.

"The slight devices with which she cheated herself into the show of a belief that they would soon be reunited – the little preparations for his speedy return, the setting aside of his chair and books – these and the solemn prayer at night for one dear prisoner especially, among the many unhappy souls in prison. .". (Pg 263) Likewise, the fondness Charles has for Lucie has not gone unnoticed. "He had loved Lucie Manette from the hour of his danger.

He had never heard a sound so sweet and so dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so tenderly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him. ' (Pg 119) He confesses his love for her to Dr Manette and asks for his advice on the matter and says that he would never weaken the bond between father and daughter. That shows that he is willing to share Lucie with her father, and that in turn shows his love and respect for Lucie and her wishes. "But I love her.

Heaven is my witness that I love her!' (Pg 122) ' But do not believe, . being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I must at any time put any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I now say. If I had any such possibility, even at a remote distance of years, harboured such thoughts, and hidden in my heart, I could not now touch this honoured hand. '. "No, dear Dr Manette. I look only to sharing your fortunes, sharing your life and home, and being faithful to you to the death. ' (Pg 123-123) Besides Charles Darney, Lucie has other suitors but only one other character, Mr Stover went forward with the idea of having Lucie as a wife and even thought of proposing to her.

Sydney Carton, who works for Stryper, also has feelings for Lucie, but knows that he isn't good enough for Lucie, and says that he is willing to do anything for Lucie and her loved ones. He later carries this promise out by dying in place for Charles, thus saving his life. "For you, and for anyone dear to you, I would do anything. think now and then that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you!' (Pg 142) Even at his hour of death, Carton demonstrates his good heart by showing his love to a seamstress who is led to the guillotine before him. There is one more character that is practically made of the emotion. Miss Pross, Lucie's maid, shows her unfailing devotion to Lucie, her ladybird, and near the end of the book, we discover that Miss Pross fights it out with Madame Defarge who is determined to exterminate Lucie and her entire family, so that Lucie, Dr Manette and Mr Lorry will have enough time to get away before they get caught and denounced for showing grief for a prisoner. "I am a Briton, I am desperate.

I don't care an English Twopence for myself. I know that the longer I keep you here, the greater hope there is for my Ladybird. I'll not leave a handful of that dark hair upon your head, if you lay a finger on me. ' (Pg 362) Another example that manifests love in the novel is that of the French commoners for France, and their own kind. That is shown after the riots started out, when families got together hoping that they would soon be free of the hold the aristocrats had over them. The novel also has its fair share of hate which is displayed through the likes of Madam Defarge and her fellow knitters as well as her husband, Ernest Defarge, and the Jacques.

There is no mistake that we can make regarding the relation between Madame Defarge and the emotion she lives by, Hate. Wherever she goes, she brings Hate around with her. She undeniably loathes the aristocrats and anyone with any relation to the higher breed of France, and we can see that by the conviction of innocent employees of the aristocrats such as the seamstress who saw the love and goodness in Carton. The following quotes can warrant for my thesis on Madame Defarge that she is a creature of hate. ' I believe with all my soul, that we shall see the triumph. But even if not, even if I knew certainly not, show me the neck of a tyrant, and still I would-' Then madame with her teeth set, tied a very terrible knot indeed.

' (Pg 166-1676) '. .. Said madame, composed as ever, but not knitting today. Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer implements, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife. ' (Pg 202) ' Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me. ' – referring to the wiping out of Lucie and her family.

(Pg 332)'s ee you, I care nothing for this Doctor, I. But, the Evremonde people are to be exterminated, and the wife and child must follow the husband and father. ' ' In a word I cannot trust my husband in this matter, not only do I feel, since last night, that I dare not confide in him the details of my projects; but also I feel that if I delay, there is danger of his giving warning, and then they might escape. ' (Pg 353) She goes to look for Lucie but is stopped by and accidentally shot to death by Miss Pross. Although the hate between the French commoners and the aristocrats isn't as sinister and fearful as that of Madame Defarge's, there are examples of them too. One of the more obvious examples is the storming of the Bastille where the French commoners invade the prison with many various weapons. "Muskets were being distributed – so were cartridges, powder, and ball, bars of iron and wood, knives, axes, pikes, every weapon that distracted ingenuity could discover or devise.

Every pulse and heart in Saint Antoine was on high-fever strain and at high-fever heat. Every living creature there held life as of no account, and was demented with a passionate readiness to sacrifice it. ' (Pg 201) The mob is ruthless and almost no one in their registers (one of which is knitted by Madame Defarge) is spared. Monsieur Defarge and his allies, Jacques as they call themselves are mainly responsible for the revolution in Saint Antoine and organised most of the attacks and riots. Monsieur Defarge once said to Charles Darney that he would do nothing for him, and that his duty was to France and its people. "I am the sworn servant to both (France and its people), against you.

I will do nothing for you. ' (Pg 240) In deduction, the two themes of Love and Hate are indeed strong and widely shown, one if not the other, by each and every one of the characters. As a result of that, the novel is more engaging and tangible than if it lacked the presence of both emotions. Not only do the characters show that love and hate are strong themes, the events that unfold in the novel are evidence that support it as well. Love and Hate will continue to battle it out for the rest of humanity for purity and virtue, but also for the enjoyment of those who sit back and relax and who love to read books such as ' A Tale of Two Cities'.