For instance, when for a moment the Doctor seems to nearly recognize Mr. As Dickens literally and symbolically depicts the resurrection of the Doctor, the Doctor is drawn out of the darkness of his imprisonment and into the light of life.

The images of light and dark that run through A Tale of Two Cities are especially apparent in this chapter. Just as light enters the garret to reveal the Doctor physically, contact with Lucie seems to awaken part of the Doctor's mind and memories. Lorry try to talk to him, his mind seems starved and wasted to the point of being able to comprehend only the most basic questions and to focus solely on his work. Even after some light enters the garret where he works, the Doctor looks more dead than alive, with his hollow face, withered body, and a hand so thin that it looks transparent. Both his mind and body are hidden from view. Despite the fact that he is no longer in prison, he still seems 'buried alive'when you first see him. Lorry can't help looking at the man they have recovered and wondering if the Doctor will be able to be 'recalled to life.'Īfter eighteen years of being physically and mentally removed from the world, the Doctor has suffered greatly and appears to have lost all sense of time, place, and self. Lorry, Lucie, and Doctor Manette rumbles to the ship that will take them back to England, Mr.

Lorry and Lucie to remove Doctor Manette from the city. Lucie embraces her father, comforting him as he begins to weep. He begins remembering Lucie's mother and is confused and troubled when he hears Lucie's voice, which sounds like her mother's voice. When asked his name, he responds, 'One Hundred and Five, North Tower.'When Lucie approaches him, however, she seems familiar to him, especially after he compares her hair to two golden hairs that he kept tied in a cloth around his neck.

Aged and weakened by his long years in prison, he seems to be aware only of the task at hand - shoemaking - and does not even know that he has been released from prison. The man making shoes works steadily at his bench.

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