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“A tale of two cities”
“A tale of two cities” is one of Dickens's most important representative works.The novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social cla is diolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depreed claes.And in the novel there also described many like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed people's GREat strength,and maybe this is the highlight of this story.At the very beginning , St.Antoine—a part in Paris, had been mentioned.It was called one the poorest parts in Paris.There,the children had the faces and sad voices of old men.Hunger seemed to be written on the faces of every man and woman,so when a large barrel of wine had been dropped and broken in the street of St.Antoine.Quickly,all the people near by like a group of begger left whatever they were diong,and ran to get some of the red wine.For a time,in that street of poverty and misery,there was filled with a joyful sound of laughter.But soon all the wine was gone,the laughter died down and the miserable people returned what they had been doing before.The vivid description at beginning paved the for later magnificent scenes that would happen.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 selfle and lofty，Mi Pro is straightforward and loyal，Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister…The couples of Defarge and the other revolutionlist.Doctor Manette,a prisoner ever had been put in the Bastille prison and his families had been persecuted by feudal aristocracy.And once a time he was touched until his daughter found him in the shop of monsieur Defarge.after then,he and his daughter Lucie turned back to London and he seemed to be a normal people.Lucie,because her beauty and gentle,was loved by both Charles and Sydney,but Lucie loved Charles, what’s more,she didn’t know Sydney adored her,and at last,Lucie and Charles got married.in the story ,Charles and Sydney shared the same apperance.This coincidence prepared for the plot that Sydney went to the prison to change roles with Charles.the couples of Defarge,who lived in St.Antoine,they saw the aristocracy persecuted their sibling,the savage of upper cla in the accident in Paris stimulated people’s anger and hate of the aristocracy.All the diatisfaction appeared on everyone’s face,especilly on Madame Defarge,they could do nothing bu to suffer.The complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds.After thenThe cry of crowd,led to the Revolution.the crowd seized the governer of the prison,and then he was struck from behind and fell dead.so the revolution began and so it continued.St.Antoine’s day had come and St.Antoine was angry.maybe because of the oppreion,the people there had been hardened in the fires of suffering,they were mecile,and never had the touch of pity.Charles and Sydney ,a French man and an England man,because of Lucie,their fortune had changed totally.Charles was a aristocracy in France,for his hatred of his
clan,so he escaped to England and lived a comparatively life.Sydney,the aistant of Mr.Stryver(who had defended him),so they knew each other from then on.but one day,Charles received a letter from Gabelle,his servant.Charles’s mind was very disturbed by this letter,so he decided to went back to France to save save his old servant from the death.But at that time,the situation was turbulent in France although the catchword was “Liberty,Equality and Fraternity”.On the way to France,the new law was iued,and it condemned to death all fugitive who return.Obviously Charles was seized.When the news came to his relatives in England,all of them worried about him.Therefore,Lucie and another people returned to France,then they tried every way to save him,in the end ,by the virtue of Dr.Manette’s great popularity, Charles was safe.But good time didn’t last long,with a sound of a knock at the door,Charles was accused by the couples of Defarge.This time,after the doctor’s story was told to crowd in the court,the terrible sound rose up from the people in the court—a cry for blood.There,roar and roar,no one could save Charles again.Lucie was very sad and despairing when she heard this grievious news.Sydney,then,he was ached,becaue he did not want to see his beloved woman so suffering.In that case,he decided to instead Charles’s death,because he said he love Lucie,little Lucie,so he want to help Lucie found her love back and realized his value of life.At last,Charles was survived,but Sydney was died under the guillotine.After Sydney died,some people said of him,in the city that night,that it was the most peaceful face ever seen there.the only words I have remembered”it is a far,far better thing that I do,than I have ever done;it is a far,far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”From these we can say love rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.As for an outstanding writer,in Dickens's work,the language skill is eential.Each 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 fictionalizes.With the broad real background of the French Revolution,the author take the plot is cri-croed,and the clue is complex.The narrates,foreshadowing,upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and strictne,the plot winding anxious and rich of theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic skill.the style “A tale of two cities” is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.For author’s purpose,he want to rely on the revolution in France to warn the bourgeoisie of England.it is a masterpiece of Dicken,some vivid words and some satiric words exposed the socity deeply.on one hand,auther represents the aspect of devil,for example,the revolutionists’ figure have been distorted.On the other hand,there is a moving act about the character Sydney,that is in order to help his rival eacape from death,he devoted his own life.these two sharp contract make the whole story more valuable and meaningful.
