A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens’s masterpieces; the story is an exhref="https://mtfww.com/tags-25l6-0.html" target="_blank" >posure of the contradiction before France Revolution-the appealing of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” by France lower class.
The main clue of the novel is based on the terrible experience of Dr. Manette, the plot is very complex, attracting, and exciting. Lying at the heart of which we can see the themes from different people.
Sydney Carton
When I read the chapter pertaining to interrogation on Charles Darney, intuition tells that the lawyer assistant who feels at ease with his eyes fixed on the ceiling must be a very special man, which turned out to be right when I finished the whole book. He seems indifferent about everything, even his love. He is brilliant but he thinks otherwise, or rather, he thinks he is inferior to others. Even his master thinks that if he worried about this or that, he would make a great success. Feeling of humbleness is the fatal point leading the loss of his beloved one. If Lucie Manette lives with him, he thinks, she would sustain much hardship. At the end of the story, he sacrifices his life for his love willingly.
Many people say that love is selfish and egocentric, but the temperament of Sydney Carton tells us that love can be sublime and pure. Through this, Dickens tells us loving someone doesn’t mean you should live together with him or her. You can help your beloved one silently, even sacrifice for love. This is universal fraternity, I think, which is the sublimation of normal love. And also, Dickens may indicate that true love really exists, regardless of the situation is full of commotion or not.
Charles Darney
He’s born at a family of royal lineage-the son of Marquis. Regret and abomination fill in his mind for the cruelty and the crime his family have done to the poor. He determines to quit the right of inheritance of his family and moves to England to acting as a French teacher. When he comes back to France, his notorious and sadistic uncle who holds the succession of the family doesn’t welcome him. His uncle is doomed to death because of his cruelty. When he returns to England, he proposes marriage to Lucie Manette. He knows his proposal may not be accepted by tte, for he is the son of the enemy of tte. After the France Revolution breaks out, he returns to France again to save a servant. But unfortunately, he’s cast into prison.
Lucie Manette
She goes to France with Jarvis Lorry to take her father back, she shows great sympathy to Sydney Carton, and she prayed his husband would get an early deliverance from captivity.
She is a kind-hearted lady made of love and sympathy; she is also the incarnation of elegance.
tte
As a victim of the gloom society, he lives a miserable and contradictory life. After releasing from prison, the only thing he does is making shoes, which become worse when he comes across a harsh situation. He loves his daughter just as she does to him, even when he knows that Charles Darney is the son of his enemy, he allow the proposal. And when he notices his daughter was totally down to know the fact that her husband was put into prison, he promise to her that he will rescue him out. He spares no effects to do that, in vain, though.
From this person, Dickens may tells that love between the lower-class family members are as pure as crystal.
Jarvis Lorry
An elderly manager at Tellsons Bank and a dear friend of Dr. Manette. He is very loyal to Dr. Manette. He accompanies them all the time without considering his own life.
Couple Defarge
They’re the leader of the revolution. Ernest Defarge, to some extent, is a good man. He was the servant of tte, he provides accommodation for him. But his wife, Madame Defarge, is really a wicked woman. She knits all the time, she wants to kill all the people who lead a richer or happier life just out of envying and revenge. The result turns out to be dramatic: she’s killed by herself as a consequence that the gun goes off by accident.
Resurrection maybe is the main theme in the novel. Dickens here implied that he doesn’t agree the upper class treat the poor badly, meanwhile, he doesn’t agree the lower-class to overthrow the upper class. He hopes that they can live in harmony with each other. Underneath the lines, Dickens wants his readers to be careful that the same sort of revolution that so damaged France wont happen in Britain, which is shown to be nearly as unjust as France. But his warning is addressed not to the British lower classes, but to the aristocracy. He repeatedly uses the metaphor of sowing and reaping; if the aristocracy continues to plant the seeds of a revolution through behaving unjustly, they can be certain of harvesting that revolution in time. The lower classes do not have any agency in this metaphor: they simply react to the behavior of the aristocracy. In this sense it can be said that while Dickens sympathizes with the poor, he identifies with the rich: they are the books audience, its "us" rather than its "them"。 Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
A tale of two cities is one of Dickenss most important representative novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depressed novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed peoples great strength.
The novel has portrayed many different people. Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ， Lucie is beautiful and gentle ，Charles is graceful and noble，Lorry is upright and honest ，Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty，Miss Pross is straightforward and loyal，vremonde brothers are cruel and sinister.。.。.。The complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.
As an outstanding writer,in Dickenss work,the language skill is kind of rhetoric technique,like the analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled skillfully,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak.A tale of two cities has its difference with the general historical novel, its character and the main plot are all the broad real background of the French Revolution,the author take the fictional character Doctor Manettes experience as the main clue,interweaves the unjust charge, love and revenge three independences but also incident cross-correlation stories together,the plot is criss-crossed,and the clue is author use narrates,foreshadowing,upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and strictness,the plot winding anxious and rich of theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic style A tale of two cities is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.
"It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.。. We go straight to heaven, and we go straight to hell, "and dickens begins the tale of two cities with this sentence.
The beautiful miss manette, after she was an adult, knew that her father was still alive. She has been dealing with her fathers family affairs and property, jarvis. Mr. Lory accompanied her to meet his father. On the way back, the father was taken care of by his daughter, and on the mail ship from France to England, Charles. Mr. Danay gave his parents, who had rested on the deck, the help, the first acquaintance, and the two left a good impression. In Charles. At the first trial, miss manette, as a witness, was assisted by Mr Carton, Charles. Darnay is out of danger. The fate of the three is tied together.
Spoony Charles. Da nai complained to his horse to horse nate doctor Burnett love stories, just read, I think hes smart, know the key to the book after reading it, I see Mr Ma nate to her daughters blessing is need how much courage. The proposers are the offspring of the men who broke up their families. When he felt his daughter to Charles. After danais love, he gave the couple the most holy blessing. The husband and wife are in love, the father and the daughter are strong, the child is healthy, the friend is loyal, the heaven is only so. "Needless to say, because she is thrifty, carefully, and arrange very elegant, have a rich a rich yulin, no waste, their home in this and even the slightest echo, are like music to her beauty. Needless to say, her father told her many times, he thought the marriage than unmarried more filial piety he (if any) may be more filial piety, her husband told her many times, in spite of all worry about the matter, she has to do all the obligations, does not seem to be distracted, and her love for him, for his help, and asked her, "we all think you look over everything, we would like one person, but you never seem to hurry-scurry, also not too tired, whats your secret to this trick ah, my dear?" "
Carton, from the love of miss manette, was so solemn, so noble, that she spoke of her life and her feelings for her. Miss manette had also given him his best friendship. I cant save you, Mr. Carton? I cant cheer you up -- forgive me again! -- on the right track? Cant I repay your trust? I know its trust. Her sincerity, won the affection of friends, saved her lover and family.
A letter changed the family, leaving the husband dead. Charles. Darnay automatically threw himself into the heat of France and was imprisoned. The father, who had been taken care of by his daughter, became the protector of the whole family. Without law courts and trials, blood flows into rivers, murders, vengeance. Any small storm could ruin a life and ruin a family. When her husband was in custody, miss manette went to the place where the husband might see her. Charles. Darnays second trial, a narrow escape. The third trial, the doctors influence no longer, faces Charles. At the end of darnells death, caton saved her husband, Charles, for miss manette, with her own life. Darnay rose from the dead. She deserves a man to love at the cost of his life.
Madame Defarge received the admiration of her husband, and her faithful love. For revenge, she would kill the counts blood. "O freedom, how many SINS are thy name! 。 Miss pross, "with a passionate love that is often stronger than hate," clung to madame Defarge, and in the struggle, madame Defarge injured her own life. Miss prosss love for miss manette came from miss manettes affection for her. Once again, her love saved her family.
Jarvis. In lory, the typical English gentleman, with his meticulous and emotional restraint, the bachelor was warm and consoled at miss manettes house, and kept his old friend in his life.
Miss manette, like a pearly woman, guarded her family and warmed her friends. Better a virtuous woman than a pearl!
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