A Tale of Two Cities/YMMV
- Complete Monster: Some nobles show a total disregard for the value of commoners' lives. During the revolution, however, most of the common population goes Ax Crazy.
- Madame Defarge, when not sledding with abandon and hollers of joy down the Slippery Slope.
- It Was His Sled: Carton dies at the end.
- Marty Stu: Charles Darnay. Why, no, Mister Charles Dickens, the name's not at all familiar.
- Purity Sue: Arguably Lucie.
- Really, she's more of a Mary Sue Classic.
- This might have been intended by Dickens after all; there's a strong case being built that says all characters in the book, except for Carton, are purposely two-dimensional.
- Tear Jerker: The repetition of "I am the resurrection and the life" as Sydney goes to his death can hit pretty hard.
- Also, the Little Seamstress whose only crime was being employed by a noble and who will never see her cousin again, but goes to her death with dignity and grace.
- Additional Tear Jerker if you ascribe to it a bit of Alternative Character Interpretation. The Seamstress recognizes the switch and knows that Sydney is sacrificing himself. Some people like to think that they fall in love in the few moments they have together before their executions.
- Also, the Little Seamstress whose only crime was being employed by a noble and who will never see her cousin again, but goes to her death with dignity and grace.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: One interpretation of Madame Defarge
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