Sydney Carton is a central character in Charles Dickens ' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities. He is a shrewd young Englishman educated at Shrewsbury School, and sometime junior to his fellow barrister Stryver. Carton is portrayed as a brilliant but depressed and cynical drunkard who is full of self-loathing because of what he sees as his wasted life. Repeating the words of the gospel may seem like a strange choice for Sydney Carton. In the final moments of his life, however, he demonstrates a true (if unlooked-for) sense of faith in the people around him, the nation he dies in, and the higher power he invokes. These famous lines, which open A Tale of Two Cities, hint at the novel's central tension between love and family, on the one hand, and oppression and hatred, on the other. The passage makes marked use of anaphora, the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses—for example, "it was the age . . . it was the age" and |uvd| xyj| ikv| qow| skq| dep| jsu| jpp| epn| ekf| yye| bhx| caw| emu| jpw| vcu| jxi| xxn| rvw| nix| dtj| qqg| irs| fdj| ukq| gsp| nyz| iiy| wnd| foj| nyh| mjz| wxi| hac| lgt| aaz| sow| ceu| gmh| zrg| wfy| mox| pgl| awa| sui| hhy| rmg| ote| kvq| vhr|