With the murder of the Marquis — a man who represents evil in the aristocracy — by a representative of the common people, the tension and momentum build and the reader senses that the revolution is near. This uprising is acted out not only in the murder, but also in Darnay's rejection of his uncle and his country. Darnay's real name, the reader discovers, is Evrémonde, meaning "everyman,"and his ambition is to fulfill his mother's dying wish to right his family's wrongs. Consequently, Darnay can be viewed as the embodiment of the belief in every man's right to fairness and justice. When he renounces his family name and property, the act is as revolutionary as a peasant murdering a lord.
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