Light and dark

          In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses Light and Dark to set the shifting tone of hopeless or scared to loving in their relationship. " his cold white head mingled with her radiant hair, which warmed and lighted it as though it was the light of freedom shining on him. " (Dickens 34) This quote of Light shows that Lucie is his light, because it says " it was the light of freedom shining on him..." which says she is the reason he will be recalled to life and will have 'freedom'. "He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent." (Dickens 30)This shows that he had been locked up so long that when he went to block the light his hand seemed transparent and not there because he had withered away from being in prison for so long. "As the darkness closed in, the daughter laid hr head down on the hard ground close at her father's side, and watched him. The darkness deepened and deepened as they both lay quiet."(Dickens 36) This quote about Darkness shows their relationship because she was so focused on him, and the were both quiet, she was close him showing a little of that loving tone. " and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light." (Dickens 35) This quote about Light shows their loving tone because she had her hair drooped over shielding him from the Light or the outside world which he could be scared of since the world can change a lot in 18 years. As you can see Dr. Manette has changed a lot during his time in prison and he has never really had a relationship with his daughter, Dickens gives us a sense of their relationship by using Light and Dark to represent the hopelessness to loving tone.