分析《双城记》中西得里卡登的人物性格特点毕业论文

1、【标题】分析双城记中西得里?卡登的人物性格特点【作者】曹 利 【关键词】自我牺牲精神；无私的爱；细心；责任 【指导老师】张海霞 曾琳玲 【专业】英语 【正文】. introduction charles dickens was one of the greatest critical realistic writers of england. he is now considered to be ranked second only to shakespeare in the canon of english authors.charles dickens was born in 1812 i

2、n portsmouth, england. he was the second son of a lower middle-class family. his father, john, was a man of easy-going but frequently in debt. he was a minor clerk in the navy pay office. dickens was greatly interested in the books of literature. he was sent to school at chatham, but stayed there on

3、ly for two years. because of his fathers trouble, the family moved to london. his father was sent into debtors prison soon after. dickens himself went to work at the age of 12 to pay off the familys debt. the bitter experience inflicted upon charles dickens character as well as his later works great

4、ly. the contrast between his happy school days and the misery of his life in the factory gnawed at him, and he later wrote:“no words can express the secret agony of my soul.even now, famous and happy, i. wander desolately back to that time of my life.”1 dickenss childhood experiences made him all th

5、e more determined to succeed and they also created in him a strong sympathy for the poor, which he never lost. after his fathers released from prison, his re-entered school briefly but left at age 15. in 1827, he found work as a law clerk, a job he hated. in his spare time he studied on his own and

6、taught himself to write shorthand. after acting on the london stage and seriously considering a career in the theater, dickens became a parliamentary reporter for the mirror of parliament and the true sun. his experiences as a reporter left him with a life-long affection for journalism and a suspici

7、on of law and parliament. from then on, he began to publish his novels.a tale of two cities had the french revolution of 1789-1794 as its background. the action of the novel was the two cities, london and paris, where the revolution took place. doctor manette, a french physician, was imprisoned for

8、18 years in the bastille by two aristocrats, the marquis of evremond and his brother. it was because dr. manette, in his indignation, had written a letter to the minister of the state of france to expose the fact that the two cruel aristocrats had wounded and killed their serfs on an extremely way.

9、during the 18 years imprisonment, the doctor gradually lost his reason and memory. he did nothing except making shoes all day and all year round. after 18 years, dr. manette was released from the bastille. his wife was dead and his daughter lucie has grown up into a beautiful young lady. manette cam

10、e back to life gradually in the care of lucie. but it happened that lucies husband, charles darnay, was the son of the very aristocrat, the marquis of evremond. though it was hard for him accept the fact, he bore it when he realized that darnay was a nice young man of noble character. during the fre

11、nch revolution, the bastille was stormed and a lot of aristocrats were tried, imprisoned or killed. charles darnay was accused and sentenced to death by the revolutionaries for what his evil father had done. dr. manettes old servant, defarge and his wife madame defarge were radical revolutionaries a

12、nd took an active part in the action. at the critical moment, it was sidney carton, and the admirer of lucie, that came to the rescue. he looked quite like darnay in appearance. in order to save darnay, he was willing to sacrifice himself. at the end o the novel, darnay,dr. manette and lucie escaped

13、 from paris to london while cardon went to the guillotine instead of darnay.sydney carton is not the leading character of a tale of two cities. however, dickens chooses sydney carton as the hero instead of any other in the two sides of the conflict. he chooses sydney carton as the embodiment of idea

14、l personality, and the development of cartons character symbolizes the writers view, especially shows us his deep consideration of human power. the author appreciates cartons sacrificial spirit and fraternity. to have a full analysis of him, we shall know that sydney carton is not the man he initial

15、ly appears to be. his personality totally changes throughout the novel to become a very selfless, caring person. sydney carton is the most successful character in a tale of two cities which is created by charles dickens. the character of sydney cartona. his self-sacrificecartons appearance is idlest

16、 and unpromising. but his heart is manful and noble.he always helped mr stryver to handle cases. mr stryver never had a case in hand, anywhere, but carton was there, with his hand in his pockets, staring at the ceiling of the count. when mr stryver was in the middle of cross-examing another witness

17、with no result, carton passed him a note and finally mr stryner won this case. every day carton went to stryvers house to help him to collect the information about the case. and it would not be finished until three oclock in the morning. he always serviced stryver. dickens described that mr stryver

18、was a lion, and carton was a jackal. he was accomplice in the commission of menial or disreputable acts. this is satirical. if carton does not help stryver, stryver could not have the status as it is now. just like at school carton does exercises for the other boys instead of doing his own.during th

19、e french revolution when darnay went to france and was put into prison in secret, lucies whole family came to paris to save darnay. but they just like sheep in a pack of wolves. carton appeared in the paris street; he knew barsad(an english man and now serviced to france) and forced him to offer con

20、veniences. carton also realized that the only solution to save darnay was to sacrifice him. he thought that a man who had not seared the love of another was wasting his life. he determined to try his best to save his friends even if he would lose his own life. he comforted the old mr. lorry and arra

21、nged every steps of the way to escape from paris. carton talked with mr. lorry about darnays fate was just the ending of him. that night, as he wanders at the street of paris, carton thought of lucie and the word spoken by the priest at his fathers funeral echo through his mind:“i am the resurrectio

22、n and the life, saith the lord; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” 1his words confirm that he has made a conscious decision to sacrifice himself for lucies sake and for his friends darnay. at the end of the nove

23、l, carton goes to the guillotine. dickens recounted that those who saw carton die witnessed a peaceful and even prophetic look on his face. dickens extended cartons life beyond the moment of his death. until his death, instead of showing regret for his choice, carton affirmatively believed that what

24、 he had done was the best and the place where he would go was the most wonderful. in his mind, theres no horrible feeling to the gallows; theres no imagination to the coming death and no reluctance to leave. he left his last bless and dream to lucie, her husband and her child. he wished that the cou

25、ple respected each other in their spirit, and the child used his name. in his vision, he foresees long and happy lives for mr. lorry, doctor manette, and the darnay family, all of whom remember him lovingly. he also pictured lucie and darnay have a son, whom they name after him and who will become t

26、he man carton always wanted to be. with this vision in mind, carton goes to his death and think,it is a far, far better thing that i do, than i have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that i go to than i have ever known.2all these which carton had done show his selfless love and high confidence

27、 and noble significance to his choice. he takes on a mythical aspect in sacrificing himself to save his friends. he represents the sacrificial hero who is ritually slaughtered of his own free will, so that society might renew itself, a prospect he envisions before he dies.b. his carefulness and his

28、sense of responsibility for careercarton proves the most dynamic character in a tale of two cities. he first appears as a lazy, alcoholic attorney man. he cannot must even the smallest amount of interest in his own life. he describes his existence as supreme waste of life and takes every opportunity

29、 to declare that he cares for nothing and no one. but we can senses that carton in fact feels something that he cannot articulate. he has his intelligence and responsibility for career through his ability to analyze cases for mr stryver-his companion.dickens creates a contrast between carton and mr.

30、 stryver. mr. stryver is“a favorite at the old buily, and alee at the sessions”.3he is a glib man and an unscrupulous, and a ready and a bold man, while carton was opposite to mr. stryver. though cartons appearance was a lazy alcoholic attorney, he is an amazingly good jackal that would never be a l

31、ion, and he is a disagreeable fellow in doctor manettes house. when he was a student, he always does exercises for other boys and seldom does his own. he does not apply his intelligence properly. so peoples around him are not aware of his outstanding abilities, even carton himself is thinking that h

32、e is a futile man. he took in more of the detail of scene than he appears to take in. darnay, a french aristocrat by birth, first was accused of treason against the english crown. mr. stryver pleaded this case. when stryver was in the middle of cross-examining another witness with no result, carton,

33、 who had all the time looking at the ceiling in court, passed him a note. stryver began arguing the content of the note, which drew the courts attention to cartons own uncanny resemblance to the prisoner. the undeniable likeness foiled the courts ability to identify darnay as a spy beyong reasonable

34、 double. the jury retired to deliberate the eventually returns with an acquittal of darnay. at that time, people in the court drew more attention to carton. mr. crucher says:“i had held half a guinea that he does not yet no law work to do. do not look like the sort of one to get any do he?”4yet, whe

35、n miss manettes head dropped upon his fathers breast, he was the first one to see it and to say audibily.” officer, look at that young lady, help the gentleman to take her out, dont you see that she will fall?”5 it show his carefulness for the court. his is not a person like what he appears to us.at

36、 work, carton is a responsibility person. he does not have a case in his hand. he knows that what he must do in a day. carton is an alcoholic attorney. when he first helped darnay, he drunk a lot of wine in hotel and feels asleep on his arms. however， he did not forget to tell the waiter to charge t

37、o wake him up in ten oclock at evening, because he must go to mr. stryvers office to help him work. in work, carton is very serious. he with knitted brows and intent face, so deep in his task, that his eyes did not even follow the hand he stretched out for his glass-which often groped about, for a m

38、inute or more, before it found the glass for his lips. two or three times, the matter in hand became so knotty, that the jackal found it imperative on him to get up, and steep his towels anew. from these pilgrimages to the jug and basin, he returned with such eccentricities of damp headgear as no wo

39、rds can describe; which were made the more ludicrous by his anxious gravity. however, mr stryver for the most part reclining with his hands in his waistband, looking at the fire, or occasionally flirting with some lighter document;later, carton collected a little delicate for stryver and offered to

40、him, stryver accepted it carefully with nit-picking and criticism, carton offered help to him. when the repast was fully discussed, stryver put his hands in his waistband again, and lay down to meditate. carton then invigorated himself with a bumper for his throttle, and a fresh application to his h

41、ead, and applied himself to the collection of a second meal; this was administered to the stryver in the same manner, and was not disposed of until the clocks struck three in the morning. in order to make grand clearance among mr. stryvers papers before the setting in of the long vacation, sydney ha

42、d been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before that, and a good many nights in succession. styver says that carton is clever. he is a man with great ability. he just does not seek fame, and persists his old ways.c. his brave in his own lifemany people think carton

43、 is an insolent, indifferent, and alcoholic attorney. he has no real prospects in life and does not seem to be in pursuit of any. however, his only major weakness is his alcoholism. in victorian times, it is regarded as a character flaw rather than a disease. he just uses wine to get rid of his thin

44、gs. in his life, he is very lonely. he hopes that he has a family and has someone to care for him. and he also needs friendship. he betrays his desire fir better, more exalted life.carton first sees darnay in the court. he found that the appearance of darnay is strikingly physical resemblance to him

45、self. carton tells denary why he drinks so excessively:“i am disappointed drunk, sir, i care for no man on earth, and no man on earth care for me.”6 it shows that carton is quiet lonely in the world. carton admires darnay. he thinks darnay is rather a handsome fellow, and he thinks he would have bee

46、n much the same sort of person if he had had any luck. he hopes to the same as darnay as a man of honor, respect, and courage. he muttered, at his own image:why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? there is nothing in you to like; you know that. ah, confound you! what a change you h

47、ave made in yourself! a good reason for taking to a man, that he shows you what you have fallen away from, and what you might have been! 7he admits to darnay because the man reminds him of what he could have been. carton tells stryver,“i thought i should have been much the same sort of fellowas darn

48、ay, if i had had any luck.”8these feelings evidence his resentful awareness of darnay as his double successful and happy double. carton views danary as a concrete manifestation of life he might have led, a life preferable to his own. dickens describes thatin the fair city of this vision, there were

49、airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of hope that sparkled in his sight. a moment and it was gone. climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pil

50、low was wet with wasted tears. 9it shows that carton desires the beautiful life. and he does not admit to having any.when lucie and darnay return home their honey-moon, sydney carton is the first visitor. he apologizes for his drunkenness on the night of the trial and delivers a self-effacing speech

51、 in which he asks for darnays friendship:“if you could endure to have such a worthless ing and gonging at odd times, i should ask that i might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person.”10 and yet, some half-dozen times a year, at most, he claimed his privilege of coming in uninvi

52、ted, and would sit among them through the evening, as he had once done often. he never came there with wine. it shows that carton try his best to escape from his listlessness and hops friendship. carton goes to the guillotine instead of darnay. his death secures a new, peaceful life for lucie manett

53、e, charles darnay, and even carton himself. he believes affirmably“it is a far, far better thing that i do, than i have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that i go to than i have ever known”11because he gets friendship to darnay. many scholars describe that carton is a christ-like, a selfless

54、martyr whose death enables the happiness of his beloved and ensures his own immortality. the reasons of formation charactera. external reasoncartons society is the important cause of his character. the story takes place in london and paris in 18th century, and takes the bourgeoisie revolution and th

55、e decline of feudalism as its background. the unstable society provides the philistine a circumstance to make the society more chaotic while people with perfect humanity are live a miserable life. carton is depressed all his life and his love becomes his only impetus to continue to live. lucie is th

56、e dawn of the dark world to him. carton changes places with darnay, who is soon to be executed, resulting in darnay becoming free, and carton being killed. cartons sacrifice is the inevitable result in this disordered society.a tale of two cities is dickens method to share with the reader his ideas

57、about government, and social reform during the french revolution. he first addresses that revolution is not a way to change. time and time again dickens revisits the horrifying, yet true consequences of the french revolution. the guillotine is a prime example of the horrors revolution brought. impos

58、ed by the people to gain vengeance on the aristocracy, it becomes more of a symbol of death than a symbol of revenge. the french revolution breaks out, and changes into the slaughter to innocent people afterward. darnay is an innocent person, but he is sentenced to death for his familys crimes. pari

59、s becomes a city full of horror. it is time for carton to become a hero.b. internal reasonsydney carton does whatever he wants to do, and does care what others would think about him. it is due to his nihilism. he does everything without any thought of reward, his personality is selfless.cartons love for lucie allows him to overcome not only the purposelessness of his life but also his own death. carton fell in love with lucie at his first sight in court. he was attr