Doctor Manette is clearly angry after being in prison for eighteen years. When Lucie Manette, the Doctor's daughter, and Jarvis Lorry eventually nurse the doctor back to health and out of his insane state they had "recalled him to life." Doctor Manette was nursed from an insane state with no real life to a sane one with a very functional life. In doing this Lucie Manette and Jarvis Lorry, in a way, gave Doctor Manette's life back to him or "recalled him to life.".
Another instance in which someone is "reborn" involves Charles Darnay; Charles Darnay is on trial for treason in England (he was on trail during book 2, in chapters 2-4). C.J. Stryver and Sydney Carton are representing Charles Darnay in this trial. Sydney Carton saves Charles Darnay from death in this trail with his incredible wits. Though this Charles Darnay is given another chance at life, and therefore was "reborn.".
This is the last and most significant instance of someone being "recalled to life" which is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has recently switched places with his look alike, Charles Darnay, and is awaiting his death at the guillotine. While Sydney Carton awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done, and it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Through these words Sydney recognizes that by sacrificing his life for Charles Darnay, a loved one of Lucie Manette, he will be doing the best thing that he has ever done and will ever be able to do. Sydney Carton is finally satisfied with himself, he is no longer a drunken fool, but a hero that now can live or die with himself. By dying, and saving Charles Darnay for Lucie Manette, Sydney Carton is "resurrected." In the battle of good versus evil in A Tale of Two Cities, good tends to be resurrected, while the forces of evil copy the resurrection theme.
"During a time of lost hope, death and war, the `golden thread', Lucie Manette plays the roll of a heroine doing everything she can to make sure the important people in her life are loved.