Madame Defarge is constantly knitting throughout the book. At times, she knits peoples names into her register. Knitting their names into her register, which in this case happen to be Barsad and Darnay, is her way of condemning them to death.

Roger Cly- was one of the main witnesses in Darnay’s court case in the beginning of the book. Later in the book, Cly was announced a spy and was killed. It was on the way to his funeral the Cruncher heard the crowds screaming “Spy!” at the hearse.

John Barsad- the other main witness who testified against Darnay in court. The road mender warns the Defarges that Barsad, like Cly, was a spy. When Barsad came into the wine shop, he asked about the unrest as a result of Gaspard being hung. He is also the one to inform the Defarg

Fire- The fire represents the unrest and the violent nature of the French at the time. They would look for any and every reason to do damage.

Dr. Manette felt a relapse coming, the cause of which was Darnay. Darnay, after discussing his intent to marry Lucie, wanted to tell Dr. Manette his true identity. Dr. Manette did not want his relapse to happen so he asked Darnay to tell him his secret on the morning of the wedding.

Darnay feels he must return to Paris because of his unfinished business, which is partly the imprisonment of Gabelle. Darnay feels guilty that Gabelle had been imprisoned for acting as Darnay’s steward. Additionally, for the most part, people do not know that he is the nephew of the Marquis, and is now the new Marquis as a result of his uncle’s death. He wants to clear the bad name in the family, like he had promised his mother, and make up for his family’s mistakes, as he started to do in chapter 9 confronting his uncle.

Loadstone Rock- a mythical rock that draws sailors in and leads them to their doom. The loadstone rock for Darnay is G

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