What Does the Loadstone Rock Symbolize?

For the record, a loadstone rock is a naturally magnetic rock, the sort that were used in marine navigation. Here, Dickens is referring to the inexorable magnetic pull of France that will eventually lead Darnay to his imprisonment and death sentence.

Who is the loadstone rock in tale of two cities?

In Chapter XXIV, entitled "Drawn to the Loadstone Rock," Charles Dickens alludes to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Loadstone Rock, a mythical rock which somehow magnitizes ships and brings sailors to their dooms.

What is the lodestone rock?

Lodestone (also spelled loadstone) is a special type of the mineral magnetite. ... Lodestone and other magnetic iron ores often occur in igneous and metamorphic rocks found around the world. Because it occurs naturally, lodestone has been known for thousands of years.