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    Recalled to life is when a person comes out of a hole and is brought back to normalcy. A Tale of Two Cities‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ has many underlying themes expressed in the novel. One theme that occurs throughout the novel is being recalled to life by the ones they love. Once each character is recalled to life there are consequences that come with it. Several characters were recalled to life throughout the novel‚ examples of characters who were recalled to life were Jerry Cruncher‚ Sydney

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    I have read two extracts from two books; Atonement by Ian McEwan and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The following is a comparison of the two texts. The two stories are written in different centuries. A tale of two cities was written in the 19th century‚ and Atonement was written in the 21st. The english language develops and all the time‚ and in 200 years it changes quite a bit. That is one of the reasons to why the older text is severely harder to understand. When you are not a native

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    A Tale of Two Cities SUMMARY- We start out with Mr. Jarvis Lorry getting a message that Lucie Manette wants to speak with him. When Lucie and Lorry speak‚ Lucie tells Lorry that she suspects her father who she thought was dead may be alive. Lorry confirms that her father is alive and they go to seek her father out. They travel to the poor town of Saint Antoine in France. They find a wine shop owner named Ernest Defarge who has been housing a distressed Doctor Manette since his release from

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    In A Tale of Two Cities‚ it took Lucie to awaken Manette from his death-like stupor. Her love was the catalyst for his return to society. “Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind. She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery‚ and to a Present beyond his misery: and the sound of her voice‚ the light of her face‚ the touch of her hand‚ had a strong beneficial influence with

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    him‚ trembling with eagerness to lay the spectral face upon her warm young breast‚ and love it back to life and hope and his cold white head mingled with her radiant hair‚ which warmed and lighted it as though it were the light of Freedom shining on him. After 18 years of darkness‚ Doctor Manette was restored to life by her daughter‚ Lucie. With her love‚ it enabled him to regain his confidents and hope‚ and it became significantly important later when Lucie met Darnay and fell in love with him. Second

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    A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution‚ which occurred from 1789 until 1799 (Bulliet‚ 652). An eruption of feelings from the rising lower class broke way for Charles Dickens‚ the author‚ to write a novel filled with historical information intertwined with developed characters and actions to give a taste of how life was during the French Revolution. The historical events are embedded in the conflicts and through the characters of Marquis Evremonde‚

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    The nature of mobs is a significant theme in “A Tale of Two Cities.” In both the movie and the book‚ mobs are portrayed as powerful. Mobs are made up of many people with the same thoughts and motives. Mobs can also be very destructive for that same reason. Dickens uses the mob mentality to depict the bloody horror and the ultimate success of the French Revolution. In the book‚ Dickens portrays the people as having the hatred necessary for mob violence. Immediately‚ the book shows us an example

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    Sacrifice is the willingness to give up something of value for someone else who is more worthy. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dicken‚ Dickens proposes all the motives behind sacrifices relate back to love. Many of the sacrifices in the novel were predictable yet heroic‚ had purpose‚ relates back to theme‚ and changes the reputation and future of the characters. There were many anticipated sacrifices made throughout the novel like Charles Darnay‚ but Sydney Carton and Miss

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    human characteristic; the imagery of light and darkness is no exception. The symbols of light and darkness in Macbeth are used to illustrate the contrasts between good and evil‚ to explain the actions of the protagonists‚ and are associated with sight and blindness to emphasize drama.             Being two contrasting elements‚ the characteristics associated with light and darkness are also opposite; light is related to innocence‚ truth and purity‚ while darkness is associated with corruption‚ cruelty

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    he recurring theme in literature that is “the classic war between passion and responsibility” transpires throughout A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens using Jerry Cruncher to represent this theme through his conflict between his personal pride and his moral duties. The nature of this conflict affects Cruncher and has overall significance to the work. Cruncher‚ who struggles to support his family‚ must dig graves at night and sell the bodies to doctors for money. This conflicts with his morals because

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