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Comparing The Sins Of The Father In The Tale Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

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The Sins of the Father

In The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, a question arises when the character Charles Darney becomes a main, influential character. Charles’ was born into an aristocratic family and from the day he realized the prejudices that his own family was enacting on citizens around them, he wanted out. Once married to Lucy, he fled to England to escape the dark cloud hovering over his families head. Once happily settled with kids and a family, his past pulls him back to France. Because Charles Darney was a part of a previously Aristocratic family, he was sentence to death for the opposition of the Revolution even though he had never done anything to oppose it. The moral obligations of their family has destroyed a perfectly …show more content…

Many want to believe that you can be your own person without the authoritative figures around you changing their views on you, but honestly I think that this is the opposite of reality. The people that are associated with you, such as your family and friends, illustrate a picture that shows what kind of person you are. Although this seems limiting, to the outside world, the people in your life and the ones you are supported by, shape the way that people depict you . Being related to someone is the same thing. Once associated with them, there is an assumption that you are similar or same in beliefs. The situations that I have personally seen are not quite as complicated as this books context The death of my Great Grandfather resulted in a financial scandal throughout my mothers side of the family because of the inheritance. To make a long strenuous story short the caretakers of my Great Grandfather who are his daughter and niece transferred the inheritance money into her account and claimed the ownership of his land. As my grandmother and her other siblings were mourning over his death they heard that the money that the were promised. As the loving soul that my grandmother is, she didn’t mind the fact that her money was gone knowing that

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