<P> So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime . </P> <P> Sydney Carton's martyrdom atones for all his past wrongdoings . He even finds God during the last few days of his life, repeating Christ's soothing words, "I am the resurrection and the life". Resurrection is the dominant theme of the last part of the novel . Darnay is rescued at the last moment and recalled to life; Carton chooses death and resurrection to a life better than that which he has ever known: "it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there...he looked sublime and prophetic". </P> <P> In the broadest sense, at the end of the novel, Dickens foresees a resurrected social order in France, rising from the ashes of the old one . </P> <P> Hans Biedermann writes that water "is the fundamental symbol of all the energy of the unconscious--an energy that can be dangerous when it overflows its proper limits (a frequent dream sequence)." This symbolism suits Dickens's novel; in A Tale of Two Cities, the frequent images of water stand for the building anger of the peasant mob, an anger that Dickens sympathizes with to a point, but ultimately finds irrational and even animalistic . </P>

The french revolution in a tale of two cities