In life, one may run into an old friend at a hotel conference in Los Angeles, or see one’s old teacher from grade school at the grocery store. Such are the coincidental events that may take place throughout the course of any one person’s life. However, in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, there are more than just the occasional, once in a lifetime, coincidental events that happen to everyone. There are coincidences left and right in Dickens’ book. Three of the most coincidental characters in the book are Charles Darnay, Madame Defarge, and John Barsad (aka Solomon Pross).
Charles Darnay is only alive at the end of the book due to the many coincidences credited to him. The two main coincidences are that he happens to look like Sydney Carton, and that he marries the daughter of the doctor that his family ruined long ago. At the Old Bailey trial in England, the narrator speaks of Carton in comparison to Darnay:
Allowing for my learned friend’s appearance being careless and......
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