ry is that for love, people will do anything. Sydney Carton pledges his love for Lucie, and tells her that he would do anything for her or for anyone she loves, and so he takes Charles's place in prison and dies for him. Sydney's great love for Lucie makes it possible for her and her family to live their lives. Sydney Carton is the character that undergoes the most change throughout this novel. In the beginning, he is written as ". . .his torn gown half off him, his untidy wig put on. . . his demeanor not only gave him a disreputable look, but so diminished his resemblance to the prisoner. . ." (Pg 68). Sydney is seen by the reader as nothing more than a calloused, sloppy, drunk who seems infatuated with Lucie. As the novel progresses, we see that Sydney actually has feelings, and that he is completely in love with Lucie. He becomes much softer, and the reader begins to pity him as we see him more and more. After Lucie marries Charles, Sydney ". . . was not improved in habits, or in looks, or in manner; but there was a certain rugged air of fidelity about him. . .". He often spends time in the Manette household, and at one point he confesses his actual feelings to Lucie, telling her ". . . for you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. . .", which he later acts on, when he dies for Charles. Sydney is the bad guy that we, as readers, come to love.Use of devices: A) Simile: "There was a steaming mist in all the hallows. . . like an evil spirit" (Pg 4)Metaphor: ". . . A crowd in those times stopped at nothing, and was a monster much dreaded." (Pg 143)Personification: "The village had its one poor street, " (Pg 103)Use of senses: "So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor, weak stain." (Pg 9)Use of specifics: (about the house of the marquis) "It was a stony business altogether; with heavy stone balustrades, and stone ...
