A Tale of Two Cities: Personajes Principales de la Novela de Charles Dickens

Personajes principales de A Tale of Two Cities

Dr. Manette: A thin, white-haired old man who looks very pale and almost dead. He is a doctor who was unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille tower, a period in which he dedicated himself to shoemaking. He didn't recognise his daughter after so many years in prison, and when he said his name, he said his prison number because he did not remember his real name. He didn't know where he was or what he was doing; he had lost his mind.

Lucie Manette: A very polite and pretty woman with long, brown hair under a big hat. She has the same face as the baby she was when she grew up. She is the daughter of Dr. Manette, who was born in France but was taken to London at an early age. She was under the tutelage of Tellson's Bank and thought she was an orphan until Mr. Lorry took her to Paris to reunite with her father. She marries Charles Darnay.

Jarvis Lorry: A respectable English gentleman, elderly, who is a loyal employee of Tellson's Bank. He is also an old friend of Dr. Manette, and he was the one who took Lucie to London after her father was imprisoned. Almost two decades later, he escorts Lucie back to Paris to rescue Dr. Manette.

Miss Pross: Loyal companion of Dr. Manette's daughter, Lucie Manette.

Charles Darnay: A handsome man who is a French emigrant in England and who renounces his title of Marquis and his inheritance. After being accused several times of having acted as a spy due to his constant trips to France and England, he is brought to trial. At the end of the story, he marries Lucie Manette, Dr. Manette's daughter.

John Barsad: A man with brown hair and a beard who works as a spy. He first serves the English government and then the French during the Revolution. He is the brother of Miss Pross, who is the companion of Lucie Manette.

Ernest Defarge: Ernest or Monsieur Defarge, former servant of Dr. Manette and current revolutionary who helps organise the peasant uprising from his tavern in the Parisian neighbourhood of Saint Antoine. He adopts the name of Jacques when he participates in revolutionary activity.

Thérèse Defarge: Thérèse or Madame Defarge, the wife of Ernest Defarge and leader of the revolutionary women of Saint Antoine. She spends her time knitting a record of those who deserve to die at the hands of the Revolution.

Sydney Carton: A lawyer who had great potential but who has fallen into a life of alcoholism and vice. He serves as Stryver's informal legal advisor and looks a lot like Charles Darnay. He falls in love with Lucie and sets out to do anything she or the people she loves need.

Marquis St. Evrémonde: An older man, a proud and brutal French aristocrat who shows no consideration for peasant people. His twin brother (now dead) was the father of Charles Darnay, so this is the next in the line of succession when the Marquis is killed by the revolutionaries.

Glosario de vocabulario

• Attorney General → Fiscal General
• beggars → mendigos
• beheaded → decapitado
• bent over → inclinado
• bloodthirsty → sanguinaria
• boasted to → presumió / alardeó ante
• bowed to → hizo una reverencia a
• butler → mayordomo
• carved → grabado
• check-post → puesto de control
• courtyard → patio
• did ... cheat at dice → hizo trampas jugando a los dados
• drawbridge → puente levadizo
• escort → escolta
• fainted → se desmayó
• for his own sake → por su propio bien
• forged → falsificabas
• gambling → con el juego / los juegos de azar
• gasped → gritó, dio un grito
• gathered round → se acercó
• gossip → cotillear, chismorrear
• governess → institutriz
• grindstone → piedra de afilar
• groaned → gruñó, refunfuñó
• grabbed → agarró
• heap → montón
• hush → calla
• knitted → hacía punto; teje
• let's storm → asaltemos, vamos a asaltar
• look-alike → doble
• mattress → colchón
• mercy → piedad, misericordia
• mender → reparador
• mob → multitud, muchedumbre
• mourning → lamentando, sintiendo
• muddy → embarrada, llena de barro
• nodded → asintió (con la cabeza)
• owed → debido
• parade → desfile (a public procession of people, labourers)
• peasants → campesinos
• pike → pica
• pinching his nostrils → tapándose la nariz
• plotting → conspirando
• pretended → fingió
• punched → puñetazo (hit with closed fist)
• pursued → perseguidos
• razor → navaja (de afeitar)
• relapse → recaída
• running out of → quedándose sin
• raged → continued with violence
• riot → violent protest
• roared → made a loud noise
• sharpened → (afilado) made knives or swords cut more easily
• seamstress → costurera
• shrouds → sudarios, mortajas
• storm: attack
• sleeping powder → polvos somníferos
• spilled → se derramó / vertió
• stabbed → apuñaló
• starvation → hambre, hambruna
• starving → pasando / muriéndose de hambre
• stitches → puntadas
• treason → traición
• tried → procesado, llegado a juicio
• tore up: destroyed
• unreliable: irresponsible, not dependable
• whipped → dio un latigazo / con el látigo
• wig → peluca
• witness → testigo
• workbench → banco/mesa de trabajo
• wounded → herido
• wretch → desgraciado