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:
 * 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" 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  Some people like to think that they fall in love in the few moments they have together before their executions.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: One interpretation of