Charles Dickens opens Tale of Two Cities with a message, the words Recalled to Life being delivered. At that point the audience was as clueless as the messenger Jerry Cruncher, but as they conclude and review the book, the audience recognizes that the message is the essence of the story. Many of the main characters experience being recalled to life or resurrection. Initially Dr. Manette’s resurrection is witnessed as he regains his identity from his unjust imprisonment for eighteen years. Or Jerry Cruncher’s as he turns away from his work ironically as a resurrection man to a straight lifestyle. However more recognized is Charles Darne’s, because of Carton’s sacrifice. Alike to the ampleness of the event of being recalled to life, there are countless, seemingly tragic sacrifices.…show more content… At first this would sound inconceivable for our first impression of his character is one who has wasted his life and knows as such as his self-loathing is evident. Facing the guillotine he ends saying, “It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known”. Though he was brilliant he felt inept, and as he said never content or restful in his lifestyle but this sentence brings Carton’s redemption to his own conscience, while his action redeemed him to the characters who knew. Furthermore, though inconspicuous Carton can be said to parallel Christ shown when he says I am the resurrection and the life”, as he gives his life to break the seemingly inescapable fate of death for Charles Darnay. Now he feels resurrected as he lives vicariously through Charles and his children. In Dicken’s tale of two Cities he presents the resurrections of his characters, the sacrifices the masses make to benefit, possibly not them, but the future generations, and finally the possibility of