Doubles

=DOUBLES= The motif doubles means consisting of two equal, identical, or smiliar parts or things. While reading there was plenty of examples to show this motif. My first example would be when Sydney Carton is talking to Stryver, he says, "Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, "Why should I be astonished?" "You approve?" Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, "why should I not approve?"(142). This quote is showing doubles because it repeats the same thing.

The second example of a double is the first sentence on the first page, "It was the best of times it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of dispair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiet authorities insisted on its beig recieved, for good or evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only". This quote shows doubles because it is going back and forth between two different places comparing and contrasting the cities.

My last example for the motif doubles is how similar Sydney Carton is to Darnay. These characters show doubles because of how much they look alike. In one chapter of the book Sydney Carton swithces places with Darney for Lucie. Nobody knew that they were different people. Therefore the two characters represent doubles because they are so similar.