【正文】 if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labor, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.” From the introduction above, I learn that he is a staid and pragmatic man. And he is yearning to live a ordinary and happy live. Sydney Carton Carton is a lawyer who looked like Darnay. He also fell in love with Lucy. Although Lucy chose Darnay to be her husband, Carton still concerned about her life. The most touching part was that Carton’s love to Lucy was so strong that he was willing to sacrifice his life in order to save Darnay’s. During the French Revolution, most of the people were filled with violence, hatred and anger, but it was rare that Carton showed the noble sentiment in this difficult times. “He represents the sacrificial hero who ritually slaughtered of his own free will so that society might renew itself, a prospect he envisions before he dies (9).” When he firstly played in this novel, he give me the impression of a negative, dispirited and cynicism man. For example, when they were in court xxi “this one man sat leaning back, with his torn gown half off him, his untidy wig put on just as it had happened to fight on his head after its removal, his hands in his pockets, and his eyes on the ceiling as they had been all day. Something especially reckless in his demean our, not only gave him a disreputable look, but so diminished the strong resemblance he undoubtedly bore to the prisoner, that many of the lookers—on, taking note of him now, said to one another they would hardly have thought the two were so alike.” The author used the contrast rhetorical way to emphasize the image of Carton who is indifferent and disreputable. But I think Carton is a wise man because he seems always to be able to look into others’ inner thoughts and his thinking towards every problem is very clear. After reading the novel for some time, in my opinion, Carton is the most legendary man in this novel. Although “keep looking at the ceiling” showed his bohemian. Actually I found that he is a wise and literate man. But his talent has been submerged by the society. And he also wanted to rise up especially when he got known with Lucie. What’s more, he had a noble inner affection. So he became a man who had great talent but had no way to integrate into the society of that time. When he helped Darnay to run off the prison, he still revealed a attitude which seemed that he didn’t care a rush. But only in his mind, he knew he was clearheaded and he knew what to do next and how to do it. When he was going on the executive ground, he encouraged xxii his sister and was not afraid of the barbar tool not at all. Such a aloof attitude towards the world! At the last part of the novel, the people had talked about him like this “they said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peace fullest man’s face ever beheld there. Many odded that he looked sublime and prophetic”. When I read to the last part of the novel, I changed my view of Cartoon from a inconspicuous man even a annoying man into a wise, noble and extremely kind man and I involuntarily put him on a stage of protagonist of the novel. The death of Carton liked a feather falling on the surface of the warter softly without splash but ripple. It reminded people of that : true freedom and equality can not be established by using guillotine. Therese Defarge (Mrs. Defarge) Mrs. Defarge was one of the revolutionists in the French Revolution. She was the wine keeper at the same time. Mrs. Defarge’s families were the victims under the Evremondes’ savage she was young, her brother was killed and her sister was bullied by the Evremondes. In order to take revenge on the Evremondes, Mrs. Defarge meticulously set a trap so that Darnay could pay back the debt of blood. It is very interesting to analyze Mrs. Defarge’s personality and behavior, at first, I just think her a woman who didn’t care about anyone or anything, she is cold but ordinary. At last, I see a woman who xxiii is and dreadful and bloodthirsty especially when she went to the Dr’s house to hunt and arrest Lucie: She always wove scarves in her wine store, just like a gentle woman. However, what she really did was to weave the names of her enemies into the weaving so that she could have taken revenge on them one day. She was actually a dreadful and tough woman who could lead the bloody revolution. Although she was a female, her ruthless and diabolic was never under males. Since her family was tortured to death by the Evremondes, she had already lost her sympathy. There is a cruel heart under her appearance. There is a gun with full bullets on her chest, and with a sharp dagger on her waist. The deep hatred dominated all her mind, which supported her to live in order to take the big revenge 。 but, they were naturally large, and looked unnaturally so. His yellow rags of shirt lay open at the throat, and showed his body to be withered and worn”. The faintness was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. We can deeply imagine how this old man had been harmed. When you asked his question, his first words are always “what do you say?” you can infer that he had used to talking to nobody everyday and he couldn’t reflect others’ words quickly. All these had implies that his character and spirit were much easier to be influenced especially when he met with the loneness. It is worthy of talking about Dr. Mate’s change. Although he was arrested in Bastille Prison by the Evremondes, he did not hate Darnay when he learned Darnay’s true identity. Due to Lucy’s love to Darnay, Dr.