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Examples Of Juxtaposition In A Tale Of Two Cities
Juxtaposition in “A Tale of Two Cities”:

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LIGHT:
"The golden thread that bound them all together"(208)
"The opened half door was opened a little further. A broad ray of light fell into the garret." (35)- Light was let into Doctor Manette’s room. Where the Defarges (dark) had kept him.
"Mr. Manette's white head mingled with Lucie's radiant hair, which warmed and lighted it as though it were the light of freedom shining on him." (40) – Representation of light. Helped him become free.

DARK:
“That dreadful woman seems to throw a shadow on me,"(Lucie said)(331)
" But the shadow of the manner of these Defarges was dark upon himself, for an that, and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly.”(331)- Mr. Lorry tries to comfort

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