分析《双城记》中西得里卡登的人物性格特点--.docx

标题】分析《双城记》中西得里?卡登的人物性格特点【作者】曹利【关键词】自我牺牲精神；无私的爱；细心；责任【指导老师】张海霞曾琳玲【专业】英语【正文】I • IntroductionCharles Dickens was one of the greatest critical real istic writers of England. He is now considered to be ranked second only to Shakespeare in the canon of English authors.Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, Englancl・ He was the second son of a lower middle-class family. His father, John, was a man of easy-going but frequently in debt. He was a minor clerk in the Navy Pay Office. Dickens was greatly interested in the books of 1 iterature. He was sent to school at Chatham, but stayed there only for two years. Because of his father" s trouble, the family moved to London・ His father was sent into debtor" s prison soon after. Dicke ns himself went to work at the age of 12 to pay off the family? s debt. The bitter experienee inflicted upon Charles Dickens character as wel 1 as his later works greatly. The contrast between his happy school days and the misery of his life in the factory gnawed at him, and he later wrote: "No words can express the secret agony of mysoul. ・ • ・ even now, famous and happy, I • ・ • wander desolately backto that time of my life・ ” 1 Dickens，s childhood experiences made him all the more determined to succeed and they a.1 so created in him a strong sympathy for the poor, which he never lost. After his father" s released from prison, his re-entored school briefly but left at age 15. In 1827, he found work as a law clerk, a job he hated・ In his spare time he studied on his own and taught himself to write shorthand・ After acting on the London stage and seriously considering a career in the theater, Dickens became a parliamentary reporter for the Mirror of Parliament and the True Sun. His experiences as a reporter left him with a life-long affection for journalism and a suspicion of law and parliament. From then on, he began to publish his novels.A Tale of Two Cities had the French Revolution of 1789-1794 as its background・ The action of the novel was the two cities, London and Paris, where the revolution took place・ Doctor Manette, a Erench physician, was imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille by two aristocrats, the Marquis of Evremond and his brother. It was because Dr. Man ette, in his in dignation,had written a letter to the minister of the state of France to expose the fact that the two cruel aristocrats had wounded and killed their serfs on an extremely way. Dur ing the 18 years impriso nment, the doc tor graduallylost his reason and memory. He did nothing except making shoes al 1 day and all year round. After 18 years, Dr. Manette was released from the Bastille- His wife was dead and his daughter Lucie has grown up into a beautiful young lady. Manette came back to life gradually in the care of Lucie・ But it happened that Lucie s husband, Charles Darnay, was the son of the very ar is to crat, the Marqui s of Evrem ond. Though it was hard for him accept the fact, he bore it when he realized that Darnay was a nice young man of noble character. During the French Revolution, the Bastille was stormed and a lot of aristocrats were tried, imprisoned or killed・ Charles Darnay was accused and sentenced to death by the revolutionaries for what his evi 1 father had done. Dr. Manette^ s old servant, Defarge and his wife Madame Defarge were radical revolutionaries and took an active part in the action. At the critical moment, it was Sidney Carton, and the admirer of Lucie, that came to the rescue. He looked quite 1 ike Darnay in appearanee. In order to save Darnay, he was willing to sacrifice himself・ At the end o the novel, Darnay, Dr. Manet te and Lucie escaped from Paris to Lond on while Card on went to the guillotine instead of Darnay.Sydney Carton is not the leading character of A Tale of Two Cities・ However, Dicke ns chooses Syd ney Carto n as the hero in stead of any other in the two sides of the conflict. He chooses Sydney Carton as the embodiment of ideal personality, and the development of Cartos character symbolizes the writer" s view, especially shows us his deep consideration of human power. The Author appreciates Carto s sacrificial spirit and fra ter nity. To have a full analysis of him, we shall know that Sydney Carton is not the man he initialappears to be. His personality totally changes throughout the novel to become a very self 1 ess, caring person. Sydney Carton is the most successful character in A Tale of Two Cities which is created by Charles Dickens.II. The Character of Sydney CartonA. His Self-sacrificeCarton，s appearance is idlest and unpromising. But his heart is manful and noble.He always helped Mr Stryver to handle cases. Mr Stryver never had a case in hand, anywhere, but Carton was there, with his hand in his pockets, staring at the ceiling of the count. When Mr Stryver was in the middle of cross-examing an other wi tness with no resul t, Carton passed him a n ote and finally Mr Stryner won this case. Every day Carton went t。