Please help with homework A Tale of Two Cities Book 3 Ch 4: Calm in the Storm
Ch 4: Calm in the Storm
1. How are prisoners judged at the prison? What are the three possible outcomes of their trials?
2. What does Dr. Manette witness about the proceeding of the Tribunal in the paragraph that begins “The sights he had seen there…”? What are the key words in this paragraph?
3. Why does Dr. Manette seem to have a “new life” in this chapter?
4. Read closely the last five paragraphs of the chapter. How is the Reign of Terror described here? (it is not called the Reign of Terror) How has justice been redefined by the French patriots? Is it just? Why not?
5. What has become the symbol of the new Republic brought about by the French Revolution? What are some of its nicknames? What does it mean that it “superceded the Cross”? Relate this to familiar phrase “Recalled to Life.”
