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Moral and Immoral Conversions

hing to live for. Then when Sydney finds out that Lucie and Charles Darney are to be married he is a little surprised because even though he was expecting it to happen, when it did happen he was a little stunned. At this point Sydney Carton takes another conversion but this one is back to his old self. As the story progresses Charles returns to France to save a friend. While he is there he gets caught and is sent to La Force. Sydney hears of this arrest and begins to contemplate whether or not he should give up his life for Charles. Then Carton has his moment of epiphany. He has this moment like Jesus did the night before he was crucified, in the garden. This moment of deep thought allows him to really understand the true love Charles and Lucie share. So he decides to give up his life so that Charles and Lucie can live their life in love and happiness. Sydney plans to switch places with Charles in La Force so that he may face the guillotine instead of Charles Darney. By doing this Carton proves to the reader that he has brought his moral conscience from a demeaning low to a extreme high.Dr. Alexandre Manette is the next character to go through a moral conversion. Dr. Manette is the father of Lucie Manette, a young, sweet, innocent looking-girl. Dr. Manette had been imprisoned for eighteen years because of witnessing a crime committed by two noblemen, called the Evremondes. Dr. Manette is saved from the dungeons of the Bastille by a man named Jarvis Lorry who comes with Lucie to get him and take him back to England. This is the first time Lucie is reunited with her father since she was five years old. When they first find Dr. Manette he is not in too good of shape mentally and phisically. He has lost all sense of the outside world and most of his sense inside his head. This is mostly because he has been imprisoned in a small dark cell for eighteen years, while things outside of the cell, in the world have gone through s...

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