Sydney Carton's Sacrifice (A Tale of Two Cities)
StoryParable★★★★Sacrificial Love In Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities, the climax came when a family was in deep trouble. The husband was about to be executed during the Reign of Terror in Paris, and the man who loved the hero’s wife had the strange gift of being virtually identical in appearance to the condemned man. Had the hero died, perhaps this character would have had the opportunity to court the dead man’s wife. Instead, he substituted himself for the hero, through trickery, thus becoming the hero himself.
He went to the guillotine and died in place of the other with the words, ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.” In this bit of fiction one sees the sort of love that is not self-interested but is self-giving. ..................................
The point
Charles Dickens' novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' features Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself for another man to save the man's wife. This story illustrates selfless love and sacrifice.