Miss pross = mrs. potts
Think of the most loving and motherly characters in Beauty and the Beast and A Tale of Two Cities, and Miss Pross and Mrs. Potts should come to mind. While the rest of the people in their stories are focused on other events of the time, these characters only seem to have one goal, in mind: to protect their loved one. For Miss Pross, she come in the form of Lucie Manette, who Miss Pross would do anything for. When Mr.Lorry and Miss Pross destroy the shoemakers bench for Dr. Manette, it is clearly in regards to her love for Lucie, and how Dr. Manette plays a role in that.
“Mr. Lorry hacked the shoemaker’s bench to pieces, while Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder – for which, indeed in her grimness, she was no unsuitable figure.”
The comparison to murder is appropriate because the shoe making bench is like a dear friend to Dr. Manette, and they are killing it. Their intentions were pure though, as they were looking out for Dr. Manette and Lucie's well-being. They were trying to save Dr. Manette from his own personal battle and uprising. Dr. Manette's vision became blurred and he no longer was in contact with her personal morals. By destroying his workbench, they were saving his stability and preventing another relapse.
Like Mrs. Potts, Miss Pross takes many opportunities in the novel to show Lucie how much she cares.
The Shoe Making Tools
The workbench with the shoe making tools has been a constant reminder to Dr. Manette's prison days. When Lucie went off to get married, Dr. Manette
felt lonely, and he was at an unstable state of mind. The workbench triggered "Some intense associations of a most distressing nature [to be] vividly recalled." Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross both agreed that the best thing to do would be to destroy the workbench and the shoe making tools, even though they would feel like murders, and they looked as if they were "accomplices in a horrible crime." Destroying the workbench was a difficult task because it was almost as if Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross were destroing a part of Dr. Manette. Shoe making was the only thing that kept Dr. Manette sane when he was in prison, but all those memories caused a horrible relapse, and they just had to be destroyed.
“Mr. Lorry hacked the shoemaker’s bench to pieces, while Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder – for which, indeed in her grimness, she was no unsuitable figure.”
The comparison to murder is appropriate because the shoe making bench is like a dear friend to Dr. Manette, and they are killing it. Their intentions were pure though, as they were looking out for Dr. Manette and Lucie's well-being. They were trying to save Dr. Manette from his own personal battle and uprising. Dr. Manette's vision became blurred and he no longer was in contact with her personal morals. By destroying his workbench, they were saving his stability and preventing another relapse.
Like Mrs. Potts, Miss Pross takes many opportunities in the novel to show Lucie how much she cares.
The Shoe Making Tools
The workbench with the shoe making tools has been a constant reminder to Dr. Manette's prison days. When Lucie went off to get married, Dr. Manette
felt lonely, and he was at an unstable state of mind. The workbench triggered "Some intense associations of a most distressing nature [to be] vividly recalled." Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross both agreed that the best thing to do would be to destroy the workbench and the shoe making tools, even though they would feel like murders, and they looked as if they were "accomplices in a horrible crime." Destroying the workbench was a difficult task because it was almost as if Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross were destroing a part of Dr. Manette. Shoe making was the only thing that kept Dr. Manette sane when he was in prison, but all those memories caused a horrible relapse, and they just had to be destroyed.