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Sydney Carton and other peoples' opinion of him

posted 2 years ago by Dolemite (87)
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I did feel sorry for Sydney Carton (like most other people on here) as to why he and other people had such a low opinion of himself. Even before he took Charles Darnay's place (if it had been the other way round I could have seen Charles Darnay doing the same) and was nice to the poor seamstress, he did not seem to be such a bad person. It was only Lucie, her daughter and in a roundabout way, Miss Pross who seemed to have any regard for him.

[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

It's impossible to judge the choices people make in impossibly bad situations, the no-win circumstances when nothing you can possibly do will end with anything but the death of innocents.

Carton had no good options, he could live and be so guilt-ridden he would be even more miserable than he already was, or he could die needlessly. I respect him for making a choice, and it doesn't matter if the choice was right, because there was no "right" anywhere in that time and place.