What is the theme of Chapter 3, Book the First of A Tale of Two Cities ?Note that the narrator in the chapter is in a dream state.

A wonderful
fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound
secret and mystery to each
other.

In a Gothic setting
replete with odd circumstances and isolation, the Dover coach rumbles along with its
three occupants bundled against the cold so much as to be unrecognizable.  As they are
isolated from one another, so, too, the narrator reflects, are those clustered houses in
the city which enclose each its own secret.  The narrator ponders the inscrutability of
each individual as does Mr.Lorry who introduces the theme of resurrection with his dark
and macabre ponderings.  For, in his dreamlike state, Mr. Lorry perceives himself
speaking with a spectre:

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Buried how
long?

...."Almost eighteen
years."

...."You know that you are recalled to
life?"

"I can't
say."

In this chapter, the
theme of Resurrection is introduced as well as the continuation of the motif of doubles.
For, with Resurrection there first must be death.  And, Mr. Lorry acts as a double for
Dr. Manette as he, too, is imprisoned in Tellson's which is described in a latter
chapter as a dark, gothic prison-like place into which one falls and can be imprisoned
for years.