and demoralizing things get, there is always a possibility of redemption and

salvation. Many characters in the novel, A Tale Of Two Cities, are sure that their

own death or mental destruction is at hand but somehow they escape the grasp of

death. Dr. Manette who has been imprisoned for eighteen years is completely

insane and is lovingly nursed back to health. Characters such as Charles Darnay

slip through the fingers of death more than once. Redemption and salvation do not

always come in the form of being saved from death. Sydney Carton, a man of

great potential, has wasted his life and ends up giving his life, in an act of

redemption. Dickens, in A Tale Of Two Cities, shows that no matter how bleak a

person's life might seem, redemption and salvation are always possible.

Dickens develops the theme of redemption and salvation through Dr.

Manette's painful experience in prison and his resurrection back into society. The

famous quote, "Recalled to life" (Dickens page 8), is used many times in A Tale

Of Two Cities to describe Dr. Manette's escape from sure death in the Bastille.

Manette's imprisonment that saves Darnay. Darnay's freedom is short-lived for the

trial, this time in France. Darnay is saved again by another person's doing and not

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