aristocrat who has virtually unmatched extreme good fortune throughout the entire novel. First his life is saved by the pitiful testimony of a beautiful young woman, Lucie manatee with whom he falls in love with and eventually marries, and a man who seems to look almost exactly like him who falls in love with the same young woman. “A young lady of not more than 17 in a riding cloak, and still holding her straw traveling hat by the ribbon in her hand. As his eyes rested on the short slight pretty figure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his own with an enquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was) of lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of bright fixed attention, though it included all four expressions.” Anyone would gladly have married this beautiful, “too good to be true” woman Darnay eventually weds. It is later seen, however that the “gentleman” should have married this lady even if she was an ugly hag. However this was not the case, he married a beautiful woman, with a devoted admirer; almost the exact look alike of darnay. This admirer was portrayed through nearly the entire novel as a loser, but would surely give up his life to keep Lucie from pain. This factor is extremely useful when Darnay is on his way to be beheaded on the guillotine during the French revolution. I t seems that the character of Darnay has an abundance of guardian angels, or else good luck. A large number of the characters the reader is supposed to like are lifeless, relatively flat and one-dimensional. I.e. the Manettes, darnay, Lorry. They play their roles in an Idyllic Fashion, that Dickens and many readers desire. A regime that is made inflexible by circumstance and purpose. In actual fact “circumstances and purpose” play an integral role in Dickens state of m...
