Dr. Alexander Manette, father of Lucie Manette, was
wrongfully imprisoned in the Bastille in France for 18 years for trying to report a
rape. After Lucie finds him and brings him to London, he still experiences a type of
"prison" with his trance-like relapses that occur when he is under duress, causing him
to forget who he is and making him incapable of doing anything other than making shoes.
His letter was discovered by Monsieur Defarge in the chimney of his old cell in the
Bastille.
When Charles Darnay, his son-in-law, is
imprisoned and charged with treason, Doctor Manette agains reverts back to his
trance-like state when his journals are read in a court in
Paris.
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