Classic melodrama. I read it in high school, forgot it (mostly), and read it again forty years later.
Dickens ties everything up neatly doesn't he? And his need for moral justice is not to be denied: The servant of Lucy, in the final showdown with Madame Defarge, ends up killing (accidentally) the evil knitter. But the servant has to suffer for her part in the death of the Madame, so she ends up deaf. Now that is carrying moral retribution a little too far. And notice that Jerry cannot be the hero of that little scene, since he is a fallen man - a grave robber. How times (and novels) have changed.
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