In the novel, The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens conveys the idea that sacrifice is necessary to achieve happiness through the character, Sydney Carton. My definition of a sacrifice is when you choose to give up something or someone that is important to you for a particular reason. In the novel, Sidney Carton gave his life as a sacrifice to save his friends. Sidney Carton’s sacrifice can be considered similar to the sacrifice of Christ.
In the novel Carton is a pathetic drunken lawyer who is very uncertain about life. Sidney’s motive about life changed when he met Lucy Manetee