he hole in his soul, Carton turns to alcohol and self denigration but this only leads him further into spiritual darkness.
Lee (290) argues that Dickens' portrait of Carton and other lawyers in the novel shows the author's "growing doubts about the capacity of a lawyer's life to offer fulfillment." Carton ultimately confronts his lack of spirituality because of his intense love for Lucy Manette, the wife of a virtuous aristocrat, Charles Darnay. Like the two sides of the law (the ethical and unethical sides) and the two personalities of Carton (despairing and reborn in the service of others); society also had two sides during the French Revolution. The aristocrats brutally oppress the people leading up to the Revolution, but the people become as oppressive and brutal toward the aristocrats after the Revolution. In thi
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