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How Does Sydney Carton Exemplifies His Life

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From an existentialist’s point of view, life embodies a meaningless and unnecessary time in which individuals find no purpose for living. Encountering different stages of his metamorphosis, Sydney Carton accurately exemplifies one who lives an existentialist lifestyle, but eventually changes his views, further resulting in him giving up his life for someone else’s. Carton’s introduction in the novel, as a drunken and rude individual who sees no sense in life and love provides the audience with a character who lacks faith in himself. He views himself as a “disappointed drudge… [who] care[s] for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for [him]” due to his crude actions and personality (Dickens 87). Furthermore, his comparison to a lion illustrates

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