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Moral and Immoral Conversions

Dr. Manette says that he wants to get rid of all the Evremondes he is also stating that he wants to get rid of Charles because he is an Evremonde too. Here in the novel the reader is given the clearest example of the moral change that Dr. Manette experiences because he no longer feels the way the letter states. He now loves Charles and he wants to make sure that this innocent man’s life is not taken away. Dr. Manette’s love for Charles is proven immensly, when after the conviction Charles his mentality drops tremendously. Dr. Manette proves to the reader to be a very strong character whose strength and knowledge is taken away during an eighteen year period in the Bastille but is later returned when reunited with his family.Madame Therese Defarge is the final character to have a conversion. But her conversion is unlike the other two because hers is not a conversion towards morality, but instead it is a step backwards toward immorality. Mdm. Defarge is the wife of Ernest Defarge, a wineshop owner in Paris who later in the novel becomes an official and leader of the French Revolution. Mdm. Defarge is a very passive and naive person in the beginning of the novel. But as the novel progresses she becomes more aggressive and inpatient. This aggression was most likely caused by the fact that her entire family perished when she was a young girl. Mdm. Defarge states this hatred toward the murderers when she says“ I was brought up among the fisherman of the sea shore, and the peasant family so injured by the two Evermonde brothers, as that Bastille paper describes, is my family. Defarge that sister of the mortally wounded, I say lay upon the ground, was my sister’s husband, that unborn child, that brother, that father was my father, those dead are my dead...”(334).After her family’s deaths Mdm. Defarge swears to place revenge on those who caused the destruction of her family, as well as those who bel...

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