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Weather In A Tale Of Two Cities
In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses weather to describe the mood of the scene and the emotion in the characters thus reinforcing the motif of darkness and the light by using the golden thread to bring Mr. Manette out of darkness or lighting up a dark and gloomy room. Ms. Lucie Manette is the "eternal light" (Dickens 47) towards all darkness in the many lives she has walked into with "her golden hair" (Dickens 42). When Lucie was first introduced to her long lost father, One Hundred and Five North Tower was sitting in a “dim and dark” (Dickens 37) depository but when Lucie emerged from the doorway “a broad ray of light fell into the garret”(Dickens 38). Lucie "was the golden thread that united [Dr. Manette] to

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