While he was a very successful and intelligent doctor in Paris, he was secretly thrown into prison by a royal decree after he coincidentally witnessed a murder committed by the cruel Evrémonde nobles and reported the situation. He was completely isolated from the outside world for eighteen full years in the Bastille dungeon in 'One Hundred and Five, North Tower,' and during this time, he lost his memory, consciousness, and entire personality. During his prison years, to occupy his mind and not go completely insane, he took refuge in simple shoemaking, and his identity became trapped within this act. Years later, when he stepped out again on the roof of his former servant Defarge, his daughter Lucie and the banker Mr. Lorry found him. Under the intense love, compassion, and protective atmosphere of Lucie, he was brought back to London; he began to practice his brilliant intellect and doctoring profession again. Although he transformed into a normal gentleman, the 18 years of darkness and helplessness in his subconscious never faded; at the threshold of emotional trauma or very serious stress, he immediately slips into his old mechanical state, retreats to a corner, and starts tapping away at those shoes again. He is the purest indicator of how secrets and oppression can ruin human nature. In the final periods of his life, he is an honorable father and a disaster survivor, determined to erase all those black clouds in his mind with his daughter's compassionate hands.
He is an old and respectable medical doctor of French Beauvais origin. While he had a happy marriage with his beautiful wife and right at the time they were about to have their first child, he was kidnapped at midnight and forcibly taken to a manor. He was held hostage to provide medical intervention for young peasants from the lower class whom the Evrémonde brothers of Paris society had tortured and killed with terrible cruelty. As he prepared to report all crimes to the authorities via a secret letter, he was sent to the dungeon by the criminals, and his family presumed him lost. He spent eighteen years forgetting the sunlight by making notches on the stone walls of the dungeon.
Due to long years of captivity, his hair has turned completely white, his face has collapsed significantly, and his body is worn out. While he resembles a soulless corpse in rags at first, when he recovers, he is a graceful and venerable-looking competent old man with clean gray hair, refined and sensitive facial features, and a gaze that occasionally takes on a fear-filled glimmer.
Jarvis Lorry
His loyal English friend and confidant who trusted him most and brought him back to life.
Lucie Manette
The only light in the world and his golden-haired angel child who binds him to life.
Charles Darnay
His noble son-in-law, whom he approaches with great reverence but who always causes a small wound in his heart because of the dark name he carries within him.
Ernest Defarge
His French protector who served him many years ago and helped him underground after his release from prison.