Light/Dark Analysis

     Charles Dickens uses light and dark to show the relationship between Lucie and Dr. Manette. Before Defarge let Lucie into Manette's room, he asked, "I want ... to let a little more light in here..You can bear a little more?"(Dickens 30). This quote refers to Lucie as "light" because she is the person who can help Dr. Manette recover from his condition. She is Manette's daught that he didnt know, and his finding out that she is alive and talking to him could snap him back to normal. After Mr. Lorry asks Manette is he recognizes him, Dickens wites, "some long obliterated marks of an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the forehead, gradually forced themselves throught the black mist that had fallen on him"(Dickens 32). Dr. Manette managed to overcome his state of confusion for a second and power through his "black mist" (a.k.a. darkness or depression) and show a sign that he still remembers his past, and there is a chance to help him to overcome his darkness. Manette thought that Lucie was his wife, but he realized it couldn't be, and Lucie told him that at some point, he will know who she is, and she fell upon her knees before him. "His cold white mingled with her radiant hair, which warmed and lighted it as though it was the light of Freedom shining on him"(Dickens 34). Dr. Manette didn't exactly know who Lucie was, but he knew she was from her past. When she leaned on him, her hair was "the light of Freedom" because she can free him from his darkness, again referring to Lucie as "light". Dickens uses the ideas of light and dark to help show the relationship between Lucie and her father, Dr. Manette.