Why is carton the jackal

SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4. Original Text Modern Text Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.

So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.

The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race. People drank a lot in those days. The situation is better today. The amount of alcohol that a man back then could drink in one night and still remain respectable would seem ridiculous to people today.

Dickens starts to have some fun with the relationship between Carton and Stryver. King of the hill. Lions are hunters; jackals are scavengers, scooping up the leftovers after animals like lions bring home the prey.

Hmm…does something seem off here? For another…well, the first one was all we had, actually. But you get the picture. Could Dickens be using a little bit of irony here? Stryver gets pretty happy on his punch and, after a while, he begins to reminisce about his past.

Carton did what he was told. Up one minute and down the next; now in spirits and now in despondency! Carton in the past and present. Up one minute and down the next. In a good mood one minute, in a bad mood the next. The same Sydney, with the same luck. Even then, I did exercises for other boys, and seldom did my own. Carton sighed. It was my way, I suppose. It was just the way I was, I guess. He sat with his hands in his pockets and his legs stretched out in front of him, looking at the fire.

You summon no energy and purpose. Look at me. His bitterness toward Darnay and his shortness with Stryver reflect the feelings of regret that have arisen in him upon seeing the one person he knows could redeem him — Lucie Manette — and knowing that his choices have put her forever out of his reach. Bacchanalian propensities a tendency toward drinking alcohol.

Hilary Term and Michaelmas the terms during which the courts heard cases. Hilary Term lasted from January , and Michaelmas term lasted from November Previous Chapter 4.