Dear Decathletes:
Shadows and darkness are motifs used throughout A Tale of Two Cities.
We see a reference to "shadows" on page 272.
Dickens writes on this page..."The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed to fall so threatening and dark on the child, that her mother instinctively kneeled on the ground beside her, and held her to her breast. The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed then to fall, threatening and dark, on both the mother and the child.
Chapter 10 of Book the Third is actually titled "The Substance of the Shadow."
Shadows and darkness are naturally associated with prisons, foreboding, and evil.
Can we find other instances of references to "shadows"?
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