Their love and
marriage:
Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette are central characters of a novel titled A
Tale of Two Cities. They first met each other on a ship while they were
returning to England from France. Darnay accompanied Lucie and her father
during their journey. He helped her sick father and there was a conversation
between them. However, at their first meeting, they talked and behaved like
strangers.
The second time they came together when Darnay was on trial in England after
being accused of treason. Lucie was present here as a witness. Lucie gave
evidence in the court which went in favor of Darnay. It shows her sympathy for
Darnay. However, Darnay was released from his charge. It became possible thanks
to the lawyer, Stryver, and his assistant, Sydney Carton. In the trial scene,
it was clear that Lucie felt sad and sorry for Darnay. At the same time, the
readers can also understand that Lucie has started to fall in love with Darnay.
Darnay did not understand it because he was busy saving his own life, but
Sydney Carton realized it and he made fun with Darnay about it.
After
being released from charge, Darnay became friends with Dr. Manette and his
daughter and frequently visited them. Darnay felt love for Lucie but did not
openly express his feelings. After consulting with Dr. Manette, he proposed
Lucie and Lucie accepted it. They got happily married. Their marriage was
natural because both of them came from a respectable background and they were
young. The readers find nothing abnormal about the love and marriage between
Lucie and Darnay.
Both
Darnay and Lucie love each other very much. They are faithful to each other.
They respected each other. Their love was beyond self-interest. Without knowing
Darnay’s real identity, she married him. When Darnay was imprisoned in France,
she went to France to save her husband. She was ready to sacrifice anything for
the sake of her husband.
As a husband and as a wife, Lucie and Darnay are ordinary but ideal. They love each other deeply and they care for each other. However, during that time women did not have a lot of freedom in England but this did not create any problem in the marriage life of Lucie and Darnay. Dickens has not given a lot of details about the marriage life.
Darnay goes to
Prison:
Charles Darnay went to France to save his servant’s life. After going there, he
was captured by the revolutionist. The only reason of his being imprisoned was
being the heir of Evremonde family.
Lucie
a loving and dedicated wife:
We find Lucie as a loving and dedicated wife. She loves her husband. She is a
very reliable wife. Her husband also loves her. She is willing to sacrifice
anything for her husband. When her husband was fighting with death in a French
prison, she left for France to save his husband. She did not even think about
what could happen to her. Her eagerness to sacrifice anything for her husband
shows how much dedicated she is to her husband. She was aware that Sydney
Carton was interested in her but she was always and really faithful to her
husband. In fact, this is one quality of Lucie that perhaps attracted Sydney
even more about her and this influenced him to sacrifice his life for her
husband.
Darnay a caring and
faithful husband:
Darnay is shown as a caring and faithful husband. He is also faithful to her
wife. He cares and respects his wife. For his wife, he has left country,
wealth, honor and many other things. He loves his wife. Though he knew that
Lucie was an ordinary girl, he loved her and married her.
Perhaps most readers will not notice that Darnay was not only a good husband but also a nobleman. He risked his life to save a servant of his family. He left the family long ago and did not take any benefit from this family. But when the servant was in trouble, he saved him. He would have just easily ignored to come to France and stay happily in England with his wife and child. Readers perhaps admire Sydney so much that they would forget the self-sacrifice of Darnay.
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