Please help with homework A Tale of Two Cities Book 3 Ch 6: Triumph
Ch 6: Triumph
1. “Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.” What does this sentence say about the Tribunal where Darnay is tried? What else in this chapter conveys a similar mood about the justice that is doled out by the French “patriots” during the Reign of Terror?
2. What two people testify on behalf of Darnay? How do they both help his case?
3. How does the courtroom crowd act when Darnay is first brought in for his trial? After the Jury declares Darnay free, Dickens writes: “Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their swollen account of cruel rage.” What does the crowd do here that demonstrates this “fickleness”? What do they do with Dr. Manette? How does the Doctor feel about it?
