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…showed last 75 words of 515 total…of these reversals was honor; Carton had pledged his life to Lucy, and Madame Defarge and the French people wanted to honor France. Without these reversals in character, Dickens would have had a much more convoluted novel, and perhaps would have even had to introduce even more characters into the plot. As it is, the changes wrap up the book with one decisive stroke, leaving the reader with a sense of closure rather than apprehension.