Dr. Manette first appeared as a reclusive shoemaker isolated from the world and terrified of his new surroundings. We met the shoemaker in a single, dark room above Defarge’s Tavern making a young women’s walking shoe. His behavior was so peculiar that three customers of the tavern sat on the balcony and stared through a small hole in the door. Through the hole a shabby, old man, with haggard eyes sat in the dark

How had Dr. Manette been a shoemaker one day and a Doctor the next? How had this man, imprisoned for eighteen years, have such an intact psyche? His intellect, his memory, his courage, his compassion, and his ability to function well in society have been preserved despite the long, isolated, emotionally devoid years in prison. There was no resentment. There was no hatred.

This split personality was not the result of a mental illness, but was rather an adaptation which spared the sanity of Dr. Manette. The seclusion and horror of his previous years resided in the shoemaker. This personality fortunately could be isolated and forgotten by the true Dr. Manette.

But how can we rationalize the existence of two extremely different people in the same person? The intellectually gifted and extremely sociable Dr. Manette could not have survived eighteen years in this destitute prison. Therefore he undertook the persona of a shoe

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