<Li> Lucie Manette: Daughter of Dr. Manette; an ideal pre-Victorian lady, perfect in every way . About seventeen when the novel begins, she is described as short and slight with a "pretty figure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes ..." Although Sydney Carton is in love with her, he declares himself an unsuitable candidate for her hand in marriage and instead she marries Charles Darnay, with whom she is very much in love, and bears him a daughter . However, Lucie genuinely cares about Carton's welfare and defends him when he is criticized by others . She is the "golden thread" after whom Book the Second is named, so called because she holds her father's and her family's lives together (and because of her blond hair like her mother's). She also ties nearly every character in the book together . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Monsieur Defarge: Given name Ernest, he is the owner of a Paris wine shop and leader of the Jacquerie . "A bull - necked, martial - looking man of thirty...He was a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them ." He is devoted to Dr. Manette having been his servant as a youth . One of the key Revolutionary leaders, in which he is known as Jacques Four, he embraces the Revolution as a noble cause, unlike many other revolutionaries . Though he truly believes in the principles of the Revolution, Defarge is far more moderate than some of the other participants (notably his wife). </Li> <Li> Madame Defarge: Given name Therese; a vengeful female Revolutionary, she is arguably the novel's antagonist and is presented as a more extreme and bloodthirsty personality than her husband Ernest . "There were many women at that time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but, there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman...Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others an instinctive recognition of those qualities ." The source of her implacable hatred of the Evrémonde family is revealed late in the novel to be the rape and killing of her brother and sister when she was a child . </Li> <Li> Jacques One, Two, and Three: Revolutionary compatriots of Ernest Defarge . Jacques Three is especially bloodthirsty and serves as a juryman on the Revolutionary Tribunals . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Monsieur Defarge: Given name Ernest, he is the owner of a Paris wine shop and leader of the Jacquerie . "A bull - necked, martial - looking man of thirty...He was a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them ." He is devoted to Dr. Manette having been his servant as a youth . One of the key Revolutionary leaders, in which he is known as Jacques Four, he embraces the Revolution as a noble cause, unlike many other revolutionaries . Though he truly believes in the principles of the Revolution, Defarge is far more moderate than some of the other participants (notably his wife). </Li> <Li> Madame Defarge: Given name Therese; a vengeful female Revolutionary, she is arguably the novel's antagonist and is presented as a more extreme and bloodthirsty personality than her husband Ernest . "There were many women at that time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but, there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman...Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others an instinctive recognition of those qualities ." The source of her implacable hatred of the Evrémonde family is revealed late in the novel to be the rape and killing of her brother and sister when she was a child . </Li>

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