Imprisonment

Imprisonment -Charles Darnay returning to France at the most dangerous period of the Revolution in order to save a friend imprisoned. At the time there were new laws that were passed in France, Darnay not knowing before he made his way to Paris from England. He ends up getting locked up at the "La Force Prison" because emigrants don't have any rights. "Now i am left, as if i were dead"(262) a simile said by Darnay himself basically stating that he was jailed with no hope and prosperity. -Dr. Manette, a successful doctor with a loving wife and daughter, was prisoned in La Bastille "Prisoner 105, North Tower". He was imprisoned by the aristocrats, the Evremondes, who didn't want him to speak out against their crimes. After being released 18 years later; Manette is broken and is lost because he forgot everything he once was, so he begins to cobble shoes. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"(3) the first statement in the novel and a foreshadow leading to the affection of Dr. Manette's life. The La Bastille imprisonment symbolizes the terror and the abuse of power for Dr. Manette, and from this Dr. Manette is a warning sign for the rest of the novel.