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    Dickens‚ an English writer‚ used realism in his works such as A Tale Of Two Cities. Dickens’ realistic writing style depicted and criticized social injustice in specific scenes throughout the novel. “The wine was red wine‚ and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine‚ in Paris‚ where it was spilled.” This quotation refers to the scene in which a wine cask fell in the streets of Saint Antoine‚ a poor city outside of Paris‚ France. After the wine cask fell‚ the people

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    once stated‚ “… we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world….” Montgomery means that whatever a person does or gets‚ there will be consequences. One would agree with this sentiment. Two works of literature that exemplify this quote are Animal Farm by George Orwell and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Animal Farm by George Orwell shows that “we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world.” This work of literature is set on a farm called Manor Farm. One night‚ the

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    Dickens’ places a heavy load on opposite forces in A Tale of Two Cities. Such antitheses occur between polar characters and contrary settings‚ and they enhance the meaning of certain aspects of the novel to a great extent. A great example of Dickens’ use of antithesis can be found in the novel’s two main female characters: Lucie Manette and Lady Defarge. Lucie embodies a loving and nurturing‚ good-natured person who is genuinely concerned with the interests of others as well as herself. The love

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    illustrate‚ in the novel A Tale of Two Cities the relationship that Doctor Manette and Lucie had‚ was a very close and loving relationship that did not have any type of roles. In the text‚ A Tale of Two Cities‚ it states‚ “‘You Lucie? It is out of the consolation and restoration you have brought to me‚ that these remembrances arise‚ and pass between us and the moon on the last night’” (Dickens 132). This quote is illustrating the way family was constructed in England‚ two people‚ that have any type

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    In the novel A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens uses imagery to help develop themes. This is present in the image of the broken wine cask‚ developing the theme of desperation within the third estate. The theme of the constant threat of revolutionaries is shown in the image of Madame Defarge’s shadow cast over little Lucie Manette. Subsequently the image of the guillotine represents the theme of desensitization to violence within the progression of the revolution. The image of the broken wine cask

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    “It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times”‚ this is the opening sentence of “A Tale of Two Cities” of Charles Dickens and it refers to the time of the French Revolution‚ this is a well known sentence that is meant to start the description of the period and this assignment is about the description of the settings in which the following stories contained in the book will take place‚ there is more than one setting in the story (London and Paris)‚ but along the story we will see the comparison

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    <center><b>The theme of human cruelty and its effects is displayed throughout the novels‚ <u>A Tale of Two Cities</u>‚ and <u>Lord of the Flies</u>.</b></center> <br> <br>There were many deaths throughout both novels that could have been avoided‚ while instead they were lost. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ many people were left to die in the Bastille‚ similar to Dr. Manette; many of who did not deserve to die and could have been saved. Similarly‚ many of the little children died in Lord of the Flies simply

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    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” (3.15.1). In the first paragraph of the final chapter of the riveting A Tale of Two Cities‚ Charles Dickens reinstates the idea that humanity’s ongoing suffering is not exclusive to the French Revolution‚ but is a theme that is prevalent wherever violence and injustice thrives. The revolution starts because of the misery and pain

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    In Charles Dickens’‚ Tale of Two Cities‚ the author repeatedly foreshadows the impending revolution. In Chapter Five of Book One‚ Dickens includes the breaking of a wine cask to show a large‚ impoverished crowd gathered in a united cause. Later‚ we find find Madame Defarge symbolically knitting‚ what we come to find out to be‚ the death warrants of the St. Evremonde family. Also‚ after Marquis is murdered for killing the small child with his horses‚ we come to see the theme of revenge that will become

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    A Tale of Two Cities: Faults of Social Structure Charles Dickens has been acclaimed as one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century. In his novel A Tale of Two Cities Dickens finds fault with the social structure of the society. A few of these social problems are the difference between the classes‚ the lunacy of the revolution‚ and the judicial system in effect as this time. The first of the faults in the social structure of the society is the difference between the classes. It is not

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