Carton is definately a dynamic character because he turns from a drunken attorney who doesn't care about anything involving himself to eventually confessing his love for Lucie to Lucie and even giving up his life in the end. In the closing lines of the novel his transformation is summed up best when Dickens says "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done" (367). Manette is another character who undergoes drastic change. In the begining of the novel we see him just being released from prison and all he can do is make shoes, and he transforms into a good father who will do anything to make her happy. In the begining when Dickens says "every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other," it shows that we begin by not knowing the mystery surrounding Manette but by the end we figure out that he is alive almost solely to make his daughter happy.
I agree with mickey that Carton is the dynamic character that all readers would think of first. He basically goes from lowest of the low to honorable hero. Toward the beginning, Carton says, "I ask no questions and make no stipulations. There is a great crowd bearing down upon us, Miss Manette, and i see them!" (133) This line stuck out to me because it is evident that, at this point, Carton is concerned for his well-being only and saving his own neck. I think Darnay changed as the novel went on as well. Upon meeting him in the novel, Darnay is very caught up in aristocracy. When Darnay enters and Miss Pross immediately has a, "fit of the jerks," (130) I think Dickens was trying to show that Darnay had people who didn't care for him, as well as some supporters, like in Lorry
Three characters that I would consider to be dynamic are Carton, Manette, and Darnay. Carton is the most obvious dynamic character because he goes from a alcoholic attorney with no direction in life to a man that gives up his life for his true love and his friend. In the beginning Carton was the "idlest and most unpromising of men"(92), but in the end he would be the hero of the story. Manette undergoes a change from being a man that is controlled by the demons of his past to a man who is able to live for the present and enjoy life with his daughter. On page 202 the doctor begins to to forget the past and talk about the future. He says "as to the future, I should have great hope. As it pleased Heaven in its mercy to restore him(me) so soon, I should have great hope." I think that Darnay is also a dynamic charcter because he changes from a member of the aristocracy into a common memeber of society. He rejects the ideas and principles of the wealthy and accepts the life of a humble man.
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Carton is definately a dynamic character because he turns from a drunken attorney who doesn't care about anything involving himself to eventually confessing his love for Lucie to Lucie and even giving up his life in the end. In the closing lines of the novel his transformation is summed up best when Dickens says "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done" (367).
Manette is another character who undergoes drastic change. In the begining of the novel we see him just being released from prison and all he can do is make shoes, and he transforms into a good father who will do anything to make her happy. In the begining when Dickens says "every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other," it shows that we begin by not knowing the mystery surrounding Manette but by the end we figure out that he is alive almost solely to make his daughter happy.
I agree with mickey that Carton is the dynamic character that all readers would think of first. He basically goes from lowest of the low to honorable hero. Toward the beginning, Carton says, "I ask no questions and make no stipulations. There is a great crowd bearing down upon us, Miss Manette, and i see them!" (133) This line stuck out to me because it is evident that, at this point, Carton is concerned for his well-being only and saving his own neck.
I think Darnay changed as the novel went on as well. Upon meeting him in the novel, Darnay is very caught up in aristocracy. When Darnay enters and Miss Pross immediately has a, "fit of the jerks," (130) I think Dickens was trying to show that Darnay had people who didn't care for him, as well as some supporters, like in Lorry
Three characters that I would consider to be dynamic are Carton, Manette, and Darnay. Carton is the most obvious dynamic character because he goes from a alcoholic attorney with no direction in life to a man that gives up his life for his true love and his friend. In the beginning Carton was the "idlest and most unpromising of men"(92), but in the end he would be the hero of the story. Manette undergoes a change from being a man that is controlled by the demons of his past to a man who is able to live for the present and enjoy life with his daughter. On page 202 the doctor begins to to forget the past and talk about the future. He says "as to the future, I should have great hope. As it pleased Heaven in its mercy to restore him(me) so soon, I should have great hope." I think that Darnay is also a dynamic charcter because he changes from a member of the aristocracy into a common memeber of society. He rejects the ideas and principles of the wealthy and accepts the life of a humble man.
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