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Many people want to be remembered as martyrs or heroes; to have proven their devotion to a person or cause, and many people have and do die for this. Some of their deaths may have been in vain; foolish, impetuous sacrifices of themselves that had no true effect, o ....

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.... not to mention Carton kept his earlier promise to Lucie that he would die to save someone dear to her. “For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you,” he had earlier promised to Lucie. Also, it could be considered honorable of Carton to take a death when he could have been devious and gotten closer to Lucie in her mourning by comforting her. Perhaps Carton also valued the lives of others more than his own. Quite a commendable trait, if true. Just as well, Carton is a ....