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A tale of two cities
Dickens Charles，British novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period.His fiction career began with short pieces reprinted as Sketches by “Boz”(1836).He exhibited a great ability to spin a story in an entertaining manner and this quality, combined with the serialization of his comic novel The Pickwick Papers(1837), made him the most popular English author of his time.A Tale of Two Cities(1859)appeared in the period when he achieved great popularity for his public readings.It was a novel based on the French Revolution in the late 1800s.In that terrible time, every moment was full of great fear.Before that great revolution, the common people, especially the peasants, were poor, hungry and unhappy.The Marquis of Evremonde was the representative of the hateful noble men.He and his brother killed a beautiful girl ,her brother ,and her father.Dr Manette ,who knew their scandalsclearly ,was put into prison for no good reasons for 18 years.During the dark and long period ,he was mentally and physically damaged.His daughter, Lucie ,was a gentle and beautiful girl.She was loved by two young gentlemen at the same time——Charles Darnay and Sydney
Carton.Though Charles was a French man and Sydney was an Englishman, the two men looked like each other very much, but Lucie only fell in love with Charles.On the day of Lucie’s marriage to Charles Darnay, Charles told Dr Manette that he was the nephew of The Marquis of Evremonde.“The door of the Doctor’s room opened ,and he came out with Charles Darnay.He was so deadly pale—which had not been the case when they went in together—that no vestige of colour was to be seen in his face.But, in the composure of his manner he was unaltered, except that to the shrewd glance of Mr.Lorry it disclosed some shadowy indication that the old air of avoidance and dread had lately paed over him, like a cold wind.” In order to save his daughter’s happine, Dr Manette put his hate for the hateful family aside and pretended to know nothing.Try to think about it ,in those years that was full of anger and revenge ,if a person were treated like that ,he must hate the whole family of the noble extremely, just like Madame Defarge, whose family was destroyed by TheEvremondes brother ,but he forgave him!
To our surprise, Doctor Manette did this!”It was a hard parting, though it was not for long.But her father cheered her,and said at last, gently disengaging himself from her enfolding arms, ‘Take her, Charles!She is yours!’” From the point, we can see how calm and wise Dr Manette was.But the past hadn’t disappeared and been forgotten ,the terrible thing was waiting for them ——because of his special status, Charles ,who was very kind to others and did everything he could to redeem his family’s crime ,was sentenced to death!Sadne hang over them day and night, and hero always appear at this time ——Sydney Carton.“ Darnay counted the hours——nine, gone for ever, ten, eleven, twelve, gone for ever”, in fact ,he counted the time for Sydney ——the brave man would give his life to keep his dear Lucie’s love alive.In the prison, he made Charles aswoon and put on Darnary’s clothes.When Charles was safe, he waited for death lonely and calmly.Then he met with an innocent pure girl, they gave encouragement to each other so when they faced death they wouldn’t be too afraid.The atmosphere around the Guillotine was terrible, but Sydney was very calm——he died for love!He knew that what matters are the lives we touch when we are alive.“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.”
The tale of two cities is different from other historical fictions.Its characters and main plots are fictional under the real background of the revolution of France.The author made the experience of the fictional charactor Dr Manette as the main clue.The plots are complicated，and they are flexuous and dramatic.The structure is complete and rigorous.Dickens had dear love and hate.He praised those who ought to be praised and attacked those who ought to be attacked.The motivation of the novel maybe just warn the English dominators.But I think we can learn something meaningful from the tale of two cities.
