Tale of Two Cities
Animal Symbolism
•	The notion of the lion and the jackal
•	Sydney Carton is the jackal, Stryver the lion
•	The name Stryver: to strive- to work diligently for; Dickens’ ironic comment about the government exploiting the people
•	Sydney Carton:  carton- holds something versus empty 
•	The lion a symbol of the monarchy
•	The jackal a scavenger, a bottom-feeder
The Jacquerie
•	Jacques the most common French name; the idea of anonymity and also that all people feel oppressed by the aristocracy (think of the Monseigneur and his chocolate)
•	The revolution should come as a surprise to no one:  Dickens uses forshadowing to convey that point
•	footsteps, shadows, the breaking of the wine cask, the murder of the Marquis 
Mysteries in the Novel
•	Charles Darnay is the Marquis de Evremonde; p.119 green text; ch.10
•	p.142 funeral attraction
•	p.174 vengeance
•	p.178 revelation
•	Chapter 21: Footsteps and thread motif
•	p.198 storming of Bastille and search of 105
•	p.215 fire; 224 note; 234 charges against Darnay
Mob Savagery
•	Dickens indicts mobs: several riots in England (writes Barnaby Rudge b/c of them)
•	p.244
•	p.250- Vengeance personified
•	251 The horror
•	254 Constitution perverted
•	255 religion replaced
•	263 Darnay’s French trial
The Peril Continues
•	273 
•	A Hand at Cards
•	276 Barsad (Solomon)
•	Where’s Cly the spy?
•	Jerry Cruncher’s deeds uncovered
•	Miss Pross’s brother recovered (recalled to life)