{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "a-tale-of-two-cities",
  "title": "A Tale of Two Cities",
  "author": "Charles Dickens",
  "language": "English",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "King of England",
      "aliases": [
        "George the Third"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed king of England in 1775, described as having a large jaw; later identified as George the Third."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen of England",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed queen of England in 1775, described as having a plain face."
    },
    {
      "name": "King of France",
      "aliases": [
        "Lewis, the French King"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed king of France in 1775, described as having a large jaw; called Lewis in the treason indictment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen of France",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed queen of France in 1775, described as having a fair face."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Southcott",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whose recent twenty-fifth birthday is presented as a spiritual curiosity of the period."
    },
    {
      "name": "Prophetic private",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Life Guards private who foretold Mrs. Southcott’s appearance and London’s destruction."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cock-lane ghost",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ghost said to have rapped out messages in London."
    },
    {
      "name": "Youth condemned in France",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young man executed after failing to kneel before a procession of monks."
    },
    {
      "name": "Woodman, Fate",
      "aliases": [
        "Woodman Fate"
      ],
      "description": "An allegorical figure who marks trees destined to become guillotine materials."
    },
    {
      "name": "Farmer, Death",
      "aliases": [
        "Farmer Death"
      ],
      "description": "An allegorical figure who sets aside carts destined to become the Revolution’s tumbrils."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Mayor of London",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed Lord Mayor, robbed by a highwayman on Turnham Green."
    },
    {
      "name": "Highwayman called “the Captain”",
      "aliases": [
        "the Captain"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed highway robber and City tradesman, recognized by a fellow tradesman."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mail guard",
      "aliases": [
        "Joe"
      ],
      "description": "The armed guard on the Dover mail coach, alert for highwaymen."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mail coachman",
      "aliases": [
        "Tom"
      ],
      "description": "The driver of the Dover mail coach."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dover mail horses",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The team pulling the mail coach; the near leader repeatedly shakes its head."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Jarvis Lorry",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Lorry",
        "the passenger booked by this history",
        "the bank passenger",
        "the gentleman from Tellson’s"
      ],
      "description": "A senior Tellson’s Bank employee and trusted Manette family friend. He travels to Paris to protect the bank’s records and helps Lucie and Dr. Manette during Charles’s imprisonment, then helps the family escape France."
    },
    {
      "name": "Two other mail passengers",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Two wary, unnamed travellers who share the Dover mail coach with Mr. Lorry before leaving at roadside destinations."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jerry",
      "aliases": [
        "messenger"
      ],
      "description": "A hoarse messenger who rides from Tellson’s Bank with a message for Mr. Lorry and carries back his reply."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Manette",
      "aliases": [
        "Lucie Manette"
      ],
      "description": "The orphaned daughter of Dr. Manette, raised believing her father dead. She is devoted to him, marries Charles Darnay, and is called Ladybird by Miss Pross."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Manette",
      "aliases": [
        "Monsieur Manette",
        "the Doctor of Beauvais",
        "the shoemaker",
        "the white-haired man",
        "Doctor Manette",
        "Alexandre Manette"
      ],
      "description": "Lucie’s father, a physician from Beauvais imprisoned for years in the Bastille, where he was reduced to making shoes. He recovers, marries Lucie to Charles, and uses his influence to secure Charles’s release before Charles is arrested again."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Manette’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Manette’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "An Englishwoman who married Dr. Manette, searched for him, and raised Lucie believing her father dead. She died before Lucie reunited with him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Inn head drawer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The head drawer at the Royal George Hotel in Dover, who receives Mr. Lorry from the mail coach."
    },
    {
      "name": "Royal George waiter",
      "aliases": [
        "drawer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed hotel waiter who attends Mr. Lorry and announces Miss Manette’s arrival."
    },
    {
      "name": "Strong woman at the inn",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Pross"
      ],
      "description": "A forceful, red-haired woman who has cared for Lucie since she was ten and is fiercely devoted to her. She keeps house for the Manettes, is Solomon Pross’s sister, and becomes deaf after a fatal struggle with Madame Defarge."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wine-shop keeper",
      "aliases": [
        "Monsieur Defarge",
        "Defarge",
        "Jacques",
        "Ernest Defarge",
        "Jacques Four"
      ],
      "description": "The Saint Antoine wine-shop owner and Madame Defarge’s husband. Formerly Dr. Manette’s servant, he helped secure the doctor’s release and organized resistance to the aristocracy; he identifies Charles as an emigrant and sends him to prison."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gaspard",
      "aliases": [
        "the tall joker"
      ],
      "description": "A tall, wolfishly practical joker in Saint Antoine who wrote “blood” on a wall with wine lees. His child is killed by the Marquis’s carriage, and Gaspard is later executed for murdering the Marquis."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madame Defarge",
      "aliases": [
        "Thérèse Defarge"
      ],
      "description": "The composed, watchful wife of Monsieur Defarge, who records enemies in her knitting and leads the women of Saint Antoine. Her denunciations help bring about Charles Darnay’s re-arrest; she is a surviving member of the peasant family victimized by the Evrémondes, and dies in a struggle with Miss Pross."
    },
    {
      "name": "First Jacques",
      "aliases": [
        "first customer at the counter",
        "Jacques One"
      ],
      "description": "One of three men called Jacques who drink at the Defarges’ wine-shop and take part in the secret resistance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second Jacques",
      "aliases": [
        "second customer at the counter",
        "Jacques Two"
      ],
      "description": "One of three men called Jacques who discuss the poor people’s hardship and take part in the secret resistance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Third Jacques",
      "aliases": [
        "third customer at the counter",
        "Jacques Three",
        "Jacques Three of St. Antoine"
      ],
      "description": "A member of the Defarges’ resistance circle who joins the Bastille’s capture and sits on the Revolutionary Tribunal jury that condemns Darnay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jerry Cruncher",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Cruncher",
        "Tellson’s odd-job-man",
        "Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher"
      ],
      "description": "Tellson’s odd-job-man, porter, and messenger in London, and husband of Mrs. Cruncher. He secretly robs graves, accompanies Mr. Lorry to Paris, exposes Roger Cly’s supposed burial as a sham, and helps Miss Pross leave the city."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young Jerry Cruncher",
      "aliases": [
        "Master Cruncher",
        "young Jerry",
        "Jerry’s son"
      ],
      "description": "Jerry Cruncher’s twelve-year-old son, who resembles his father and accompanies him to Tellson’s. He secretly follows his father on a grave-robbing expedition and hopes to become a resurrection man."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Cruncher",
      "aliases": [
        "Aggerawayter"
      ],
      "description": "Jerry Cruncher’s orderly, industrious wife and young Jerry’s mother. She prays for her family, which her husband wrongly believes harms his prospects, and he abuses her over her opposition to his grave-robbing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tellson’s oldest clerk",
      "aliases": [
        "ancient clerk"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed senior clerk at Tellson’s who gives Jerry Cruncher a note for Mr. Lorry at the Old Bailey."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Bailey door-keeper",
      "aliases": [
        "door-keeper"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed court attendant who admits Jerry Cruncher and passes Mr. Lorry the note."
    },
    {
      "name": "Man in the Old Bailey crowd",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed spectator who tells Jerry Cruncher that Charles Darnay faces a treason trial and explains the expected sentence."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Bailey judge",
      "aliases": [
        "my Lord",
        "the Judge"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed judge who presides over Charles Darnay’s treason trial and questions witnesses."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Darnay",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Darnay",
        "the prisoner",
        "Monsieur Charles",
        "the nephew of Monseigneur",
        "Monsieur heretofore the Marquis St. Evrémonde",
        "Evrémonde",
        "Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay",
        "little Charles"
      ],
      "description": "A French-born gentleman and nephew of Monseigneur who renounces his aristocratic inheritance and lives in England as a French tutor and translator. He marries Lucie Manette and returns to France to help Gabelle; after two imprisonments and a final death sentence, Sydney Carton takes his place and saves his life."
    },
    {
      "name": "Prisoner’s counsel",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Stryver",
        "Stryver"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Darnay’s defense lawyer, an ambitious man whose close ally Sydney Carton helps prepare cases. He wins Darnay’s acquittal and later marries a wealthy widow."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Carton",
      "aliases": [
        "Carton",
        "Sydney Carton",
        "Sydney",
        "the jackal",
        "Memory"
      ],
      "description": "A gifted but idle and self-destructive lawyer who resembles Charles Darnay. He loves Lucie and becomes a trusted friend to her family; he takes Darnay’s place at the guillotine, dies with a peaceful expression, and imagines Lucie’s future son bearing his name."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Barsad",
      "aliases": [
        "the patriot",
        "the unimpeachable patriot",
        "Solomon Pross",
        "Solomon",
        "John Solomon",
        "Sheep of the prisons"
      ],
      "description": "An English spy and former Crown witness against Charles Darnay, now an informer and occasional turnkey for the French Republic. Miss Pross’s estranged brother and Roger Cly’s former partner, he gives Carton access to Darnay and helps with Carton’s plan."
    },
    {
      "name": "Roger Cly",
      "aliases": [
        "the virtuous servant"
      ],
      "description": "Charles Darnay’s former servant and a Crown witness who claimed he stole papers from Darnay’s desk. He faked his death with John Barsad’s help and became a spy in France."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Attorney-General",
      "aliases": [
        "Attorney-General"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed prosecutor who argues that Charles Darnay is guilty of treason and examines witnesses at his trial."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Solicitor-General",
      "aliases": [
        "Solicitor-General"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed Crown lawyer who examines John Barsad at Charles Darnay’s trial."
    },
    {
      "name": "Prisoner’s servant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant of Charles Darnay, accused by the prosecution of searching his master’s drawers and concealing papers; Roger Cly is the servant who testifies."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hotel witness",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed witness who claims to have seen Charles Darnay at a garrison-and-dockyard town’s hotel. Mr. Carton’s resemblance to Darnay undermines the identification."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Lorry’s two packet companions",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed gentleman and lady who accompany Mr. Lorry on his return voyage from France and are present when Charles Darnay boards the packet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Two French gentlemen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed men who travel with Charles Darnay and confer with him over papers before leaving the packet at Calais."
    },
    {
      "name": "George Washington",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical figure mentioned by Charles Darnay in a joking remark to Lucie, suggesting he might become nearly as famous as George III."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Bailey prisoner in the quartering case",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed defendant at the Old Bailey, accused of treason and facing drawing, hanging, disembowelling, beheading, and quartering."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monseigneur",
      "aliases": [
        "Monsieur the Marquis",
        "the Marquis",
        "Marquis St. Evrémonde",
        "the elder brother"
      ],
      "description": "A powerful French aristocrat who treats the poor with contempt and kills Gaspard’s child with his carriage. He is Charles Darnay’s uncle and one of twin brothers responsible for the abuses described in Dr. Manette’s prison paper; Gaspard later murders him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Farmer-General",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A wealthy tax farmer allied with Monseigneur, who married Monseigneur’s sister and is scorned by the aristocratic family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monseigneur’s sister",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed sister of Monseigneur, taken from a convent and married to the wealthy Farmer-General."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monseigneur’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "wife of the Marquis St. Evrémonde",
        "the compassionate wife of the Marquis"
      ],
      "description": "A young, compassionate woman married to the Marquis St. Evrémonde and mother of Charles Darnay. She privately seeks to help the peasant family her husband’s family wronged, and intends to leave her jewels to them; she does not appear alive in the present-day events."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monseigneur’s four chocolate attendants",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Four unnamed liveried servants who prepare and serve Monseigneur’s morning chocolate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chief chocolate attendant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed leader of Monseigneur’s four chocolate attendants, distinguished by carrying two gold watches."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monseigneur’s remaining supper guest",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed haughty man of about sixty who curses Monseigneur after the reception."
    },
    {
      "name": "Valet of Monsieur the Marquis",
      "aliases": [
        "the valet"
      ],
      "description": "The Marquis’s unnamed servant, who rides with him and picks up the gold coin tossed after Gaspard’s child is killed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Courier of Monsieur the Marquis",
      "aliases": [
        "the courier"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed courier who rides ahead of the Marquis’s carriage and helps summon a road mender for questioning."
    },
    {
      "name": "Postilions of Monsieur the Marquis",
      "aliases": [
        "the postilions"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed drivers who conduct the Marquis’s travelling carriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gaspard’s child",
      "aliases": [
        "the child",
        "the bundle"
      ],
      "description": "The young child of Gaspard, killed when the Marquis’s carriage runs over him in Paris."
    },
    {
      "name": "Grizzled road mender",
      "aliases": [
        "the mender of the roads",
        "Jacques Five"
      ],
      "description": "An impoverished road worker who witnesses the stranger hanging from the Marquis’s carriage and later sees him arrested and executed. He recounts this to the Defarges and three Jacques."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monsieur Gabelle",
      "aliases": [
        "Gabelle",
        "Theophile Gabelle",
        "Citizen Gabelle"
      ],
      "description": "The village postmaster and a tax official who serves the Marquis. During the Revolution he is imprisoned for serving the emigrant Darnay, then freed after Darnay returns and testifies for him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Forester’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman whose forester husband died of want; she petitions the Marquis for a marker at his grave."
    },
    {
      "name": "Forester",
      "aliases": [
        "the forester",
        "Forester’s husband"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed husband of the woman who petitions the Marquis; he died in poverty and lies in an unmarked grave."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stranger on the carriage drag",
      "aliases": [
        "the Accursed"
      ],
      "description": "An unidentified tall, dust-covered man seen hanging from the chain of the Marquis’s carriage before plunging down a hillside."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monsieur Charles",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Marquis’s expected nephew travelling from England to the chateau; he is Charles Darnay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young bird at the chateau window",
      "aliases": [
        "little bird"
      ],
      "description": "A small bird that sings on the sill of the Marquis’s bedroom window at dawn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bear of the bear-leader",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A black, mangy bear accompanying a street performer in Roger Cly’s funeral procession."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bear-leader",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed street performer impressed into the procession at Roger Cly’s funeral, accompanied by his bear."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chimney-sweep driver",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed chimney-sweep made to drive Roger Cly’s hearse in the funeral procession."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pieman driver",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed pieman made to drive the mourning coach in Roger Cly’s funeral procession."
    },
    {
      "name": "First resurrection man",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed grave robber who joins Jerry Cruncher on a nighttime expedition to dig up a body."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second resurrection man",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed grave robber who joins Jerry Cruncher and another accomplice on a nighttime expedition."
    },
    {
      "name": "Damiens",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical prisoner cited as an example of brutal punishment: for attempting to kill King Louis Fifteen, he was tortured and publicly executed in Paris."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Louis Fifteen",
      "aliases": [
        "Louis Fifteen"
      ],
      "description": "The former king of France whose life Damiens attempted to take; mentioned in the account of Damiens’s execution."
    },
    {
      "name": "Solomon",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Pross’s brother"
      ],
      "description": "Miss Pross’s brother, once the bridegroom she hoped her sister might marry; he is actually John Barsad."
    },
    {
      "name": "Doctor consulted by Mr. Lorry",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed physician whose opinion Mr. Lorry considers seeking about Dr. Manette’s recurring illness."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Vengeance",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Madame Defarge’s short, rather plump lieutenant among the Saint Antoine women, wife of a starving grocer and mother of two. She rallies women during the Revolution and helps lead the crowd’s violence."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Bastille governor",
      "aliases": [
        "the governor"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed governor who defended the Bastille and ordered his soldiers to fire on the people; the crowd kills and mutilates him after the fortress falls."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bastille turnkey",
      "aliases": [
        "turnkey"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed prison officer who guides Defarge and Jacques Three to cell 105 in the North Tower."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alexandre Manette’s prison cell",
      "aliases": [
        "cell 105, North Tower"
      ],
      "description": "The Bastille cell where Alexandre Manette was held and left his initials and the words “a poor physician.”"
    },
    {
      "name": "Foulon",
      "aliases": [
        "old Foulon"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly official who told starving people to eat grass and faked his death to escape them; revolutionaries capture and kill him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Foulon’s son-in-law",
      "aliases": [
        "the son-in-law of Foulon"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man identified as Foulon’s son-in-law and an enemy of the people; a crowd captures and kills him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The mender’s fellow villagers",
      "aliases": [
        "two hundred and fifty particular friends"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed villagers who gather as the Marquis’s chateau burns and leave it to the flames."
    },
    {
      "name": "Shaggy-haired traveller",
      "aliases": [
        "the man",
        "wayfarer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, exhausted revolutionary who arrives at the village where the road mender works and arranges to meet him that night."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacristan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed church official who keeps the church keys; Monsieur Gabelle warns him that the tocsin may need to be rung."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chateau rider",
      "aliases": [
        "rider from the chateau"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed rider who seeks help from Monsieur Gabelle and the soldiers when the Marquis’s chateau is set on fire."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bastille soldiers and officers",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed soldiers and officers at the prison on the crag who refuse to help save the burning chateau."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lucie Darnay",
      "aliases": [
        "little Lucie",
        "Lucie’s little daughter"
      ],
      "description": "The daughter of Charles and Lucie Darnay, who grows up in their happy home and is especially fond of Sydney Carton. Carton imagines her later as a wife and mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Darnays’ little boy",
      "aliases": [
        "the little boy"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed young son of Charles and Lucie Darnay, who dies as a child. Before his death, he asks his parents to kiss Carton for him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Stryver",
      "aliases": [
        "the florid widow"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed wealthy widow whom Stryver marries; she has three sons."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Stryver’s three sons",
      "aliases": [
        "the three young gentlemen",
        "three pupils"
      ],
      "description": "Three unnamed boys from Stryver’s marriage, briefly offered as pupils to Charles Darnay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Timid local functionary",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed official in a French town who orders Charles Darnay escorted to Paris as an emigrant and charges him for the escort."
    },
    {
      "name": "First mounted patriot",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of two armed patriots who escort Darnay toward Paris; he is drunk and handles his musket recklessly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second mounted patriot",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of two armed patriots who escort Darnay toward Paris."
    },
    {
      "name": "Beauvais farrier",
      "aliases": [
        "the farrier"
      ],
      "description": "A hostile blacksmith who accuses Darnay of being an emigrant and aristocrat and calls for his condemnation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Beauvais postmaster",
      "aliases": [
        "the postmaster"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed postmaster who protects Darnay from the angry crowd in Beauvais and explains the decree against emigrants."
    },
    {
      "name": "Beauvais crowd",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An angry crowd in Beauvais that denounces Darnay as an emigrant and threatens him before the postmaster intervenes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Smith in Beauvais crowd",
      "aliases": [
        "the smith"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man in the Beauvais crowd who calls Darnay a traitor under the decree and says his life belongs to the people."
    },
    {
      "name": "Man in authority at Paris barrier",
      "aliases": [
        "Darnay’s conductor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed official who examines Gabelle’s letter, identifies Darnay as Evrémonde, and conducts him to the guard-room."
    },
    {
      "name": "Paris barrier officer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed officer who records Darnay as an emigrant and orders him confined in La Force in secret."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Force gaoler",
      "aliases": [
        "chief gaoler",
        "chief"
      ],
      "description": "The bloated-faced chief gaoler who receives Darnay at La Force and confines him alone."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Force gaoler’s wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The gaoler’s wife, who tells him to have patience as the prison population grows."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Force three turnkeys",
      "aliases": [
        "three turnkeys"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed prison officers who enter when the gaoler’s wife rings a bell and echo her call for patience."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gentleman welcoming Darnay at La Force",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A courtly prisoner who welcomes Darnay on behalf of the La Force prisoners and explains his secret confinement."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Force prisoners",
      "aliases": [
        "assembled companions in misfortune",
        "society"
      ],
      "description": "Imprisoned men and women who courteously welcome Darnay and offer sympathy; many are later killed in the massacres."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two grindstone turners",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Two unnamed men who frantically sharpen weapons during the September prison massacres."
    },
    {
      "name": "Women at the grindstone",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed women who give wine to the men sharpening weapons during the prison massacres."
    },
    {
      "name": "Self-appointed Tribunal president",
      "aliases": [
        "the man sitting as President"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed presiding member of the revolutionary tribunal at La Force who orders Charles Darnay kept in custody but safe for Dr. Manette’s sake."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wounded released prisoner",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed prisoner released by the tribunal who is mistakenly stabbed with a pike; Dr. Manette treats his wound."
    },
    {
      "name": "Company of Samaritans",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A group of unnamed people who help Dr. Manette tend and carry the wounded released prisoner before returning to the massacre."
    },
    {
      "name": "King of France during the Revolution",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed king imprisoned, tried, condemned, and beheaded during the Revolution."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen of France during the Revolution",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed queen imprisoned and widowed for eight months before her execution by guillotine."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Samson of the firewood guillotine",
      "aliases": [
        "the wood-sawyer",
        "the little wood-sawyer",
        "Samson"
      ],
      "description": "A small, gestural wood-sawyer in Paris who once worked as a road mender and jokes about his saw as a little guillotine. He joins the Carmagnole around Lucie while she waits by the prison and later testifies against her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Four red-capped men",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Armed revolutionary officers who enter the Manettes’ home and arrest Charles Darnay again; their leader says Saint Antoine denounced him."
    },
    {
      "name": "First red-capped officer",
      "aliases": [
        "leader of the four red-capped men"
      ],
      "description": "The leader of the four armed men who re-arrest Charles Darnay and explain that Saint Antoine denounced him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second red-capped officer",
      "aliases": [
        "citizen from Saint Antoine"
      ],
      "description": "One of the four officers who re-arrest Darnay, identified as coming from Saint Antoine; he says the Defarges and another person denounced him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young woman as Goddess of Liberty",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman chosen from the crowd to be carried as the Goddess of Liberty during the Carmagnole."
    },
    {
      "name": "Five judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The tribunal judges who try Charles Darnay and other accused people during the Terror."
    },
    {
      "name": "Public Prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed prosecutor who accuses Charles Darnay of being an emigrant whose life is forfeit to the Republic."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jury of the Revolutionary Tribunal",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed jurors who hear Darnay’s case and vote unanimously to acquit him after Dr. Manette and Gabelle testify; later, the jury condemns him after the prison paper is read."
    },
    {
      "name": "Darnay’s five fellow accused",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Five unnamed defendants tried immediately after Charles Darnay; they are condemned to die within twenty-four hours."
    },
    {
      "name": "The executioner Samson",
      "aliases": [
        "Samson",
        "the Barber"
      ],
      "description": "The chief functionary who operates the guillotine, nicknamed after the Biblical strong man; the wood-sawyer boasts that he shaved sixty-three people in less than two pipes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Turnkey at the Conciergerie",
      "aliases": [
        "Sheep of the prisons"
      ],
      "description": "A prison spy who sometimes works as a turnkey at the Conciergerie and arranges to give Sydney Carton access to Charles Darnay. He is John Barsad."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Pross’s brother",
      "aliases": [
        "Solomon Pross",
        "Solomon",
        "John Barsad"
      ],
      "description": "Miss Pross’s estranged brother, who spent her money and left her. He is John Barsad, an English spy and former Crown witness now serving the French Republic."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pitt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An English political figure mentioned by Sydney Carton as a possible employer of Barsad, whose supposed service to the English government could expose him as a traitor to the Republic."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Cruncher’s alleged medical-doctor rivals",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed wives of medical doctors, whom Jerry Cruncher accuses of praying or otherwise interfering with his grave-robbing income."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Lorry’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "his pretty young mother"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Lorry’s deceased mother, whom he remembers tenderly while reflecting on his childhood."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chemist",
      "aliases": [
        "chemist’s shop owner"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed apothecary in a small Paris shop who prepares packets for Sydney Carton and warns him to keep them separate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Little girl outside the theatre",
      "aliases": [
        "little girl"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed child whom Sydney Carton carries across a muddy street and asks for a kiss."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mother of the little girl",
      "aliases": [
        "the mother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman outside a Paris theatre, seeking a way across the muddy street with her daughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elder Evrémonde brother",
      "aliases": [
        "the elder brother"
      ],
      "description": "The Marquis St. Evrémonde, twin brother of the younger Evrémonde. He summons Dr. Manette to treat a young woman and her dying brother, then has Manette imprisoned after he reports the family’s crimes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Younger Evrémonde brother",
      "aliases": [
        "the younger brother"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed twin of the Marquis and the more openly contemptuous of the two brothers. He rapes the peasant girl and mortally wounds her brother in a sword fight; his son is Charles Darnay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young peasant woman",
      "aliases": [
        "the patient",
        "the sister"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman from the family oppressed by the Evrémonde brothers. The younger brother abducts and rapes her; she is found delirious and bound, dies after giving birth, and is Madame Defarge’s sister."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peasant boy",
      "aliases": [
        "the handsome peasant boy",
        "the dying boy",
        "the brother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed seventeen-year-old, brother to Madame Defarge and the assaulted peasant woman. Mortally wounded by the younger Evrémonde brother, he tells Dr. Manette of the family’s oppression and curses the Evrémondes before dying."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peasant girl’s husband",
      "aliases": [
        "the tenant",
        "the ailing husband"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young peasant, husband to the assaulted woman and tenant of the Evrémondes. The brothers harness and drive him until he dies after twelve strokes of the bell."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peasant family’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "the father"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed father of Madame Defarge and her siblings. After learning that his daughter has been abducted, his heart breaks and he dies without speaking."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madame Defarge’s younger sister",
      "aliases": [
        "the young sister"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed younger sister of Madame Defarge, taken to a place beyond the Evrémondes’ reach by her brother. Dr. Manette never learns her name or whereabouts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unborn child of the peasant woman",
      "aliases": [
        "the unborn child"
      ],
      "description": "The unborn child of the assaulted peasant woman and her husband; the pregnancy is discovered by Dr. Manette, but the child’s fate is not stated."
    },
    {
      "name": "Servant of Dr. Manette",
      "aliases": [
        "Ernest Defarge"
      ],
      "description": "Dr. Manette’s young servant who guides a man in black into the house on the night of Manette’s arrest. He is the future wine-shop keeper Ernest Defarge."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wife of the man downstairs",
      "aliases": [
        "the timid woman in attendance"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, timid woman who attends the young peasant woman and is the wife of the man who opens the house door."
    },
    {
      "name": "Man who opens the house door",
      "aliases": [
        "the man downstairs"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant at the isolated house where Dr. Manette is taken; one of the Evrémonde brothers strikes him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Man in black dress",
      "aliases": [
        "the man in a black dress"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who arrives at Dr. Manette’s house on the night of his arrest, summons him to an alleged urgent case, and helps deliver him into the brothers’ custody."
    },
    {
      "name": "Manette’s minister",
      "aliases": [
        "the Minister"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed government minister to whom Dr. Manette writes privately about the Evrémonde brothers’ crimes; the letter is intercepted and destroyed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Courtroom audience",
      "aliases": [
        "auditory"
      ],
      "description": "The crowd at Darnay’s Revolutionary Tribunal trial, whose bloodthirsty approval reinforces the verdict."
    },
    {
      "name": "Farmer-General awaiting execution",
      "aliases": [
        "the farmer-general of seventy"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed seventy-year-old tax farmer among the fifty-two people condemned for execution on the day of Darnay’s final imprisonment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Seamstress awaiting execution",
      "aliases": [
        "the seamstress of twenty"
      ],
      "description": "An innocent young seamstress condemned with Darnay. She had been imprisoned in La Force, finds courage holding Carton’s hand, and dies just before him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The seamstress’s cousin",
      "aliases": [
        "the seamstress’s only relative"
      ],
      "description": "The seamstress’s orphaned cousin, five years younger than her, who lives with a farmer in the south country and does not know of her fate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Two men assisting Barsad",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed men who help Barsad carry the unconscious Darnay from the prison cell."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Force execution gaoler",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed gaoler who calls Carton by Darnay’s name and leads him with the condemned prisoners to be bound."
    },
    {
      "name": "Barrier child",
      "aliases": [
        "little child carried by its mother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed child at the Paris barrier, carried by its mother and reaching toward Lucie as the escaping coach is examined."
    },
    {
      "name": "Barrier child’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "its mother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman at the Paris barrier who carries a child that reaches toward Lucie in the escaping coach."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lucie and Charles’s future son",
      "aliases": [
        "child who bears Carton’s name"
      ],
      "description": "The son Sydney Carton imagines Lucie and Charles will have after their escape. In his vision, he bears Carton’s name and grows into a just, honoured man."
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