Discrepancies In A Tale Of Two Cities

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Throughout Dickens journey through life, the poor laws of Great Britain were closely intertwined. The first major impact that his childhood experiences had on him was his exposure to the factory system. The Industrial Revolution created large urban areas with a central factory that employed most of the area’s people. The factory was full of lower-class people in unsanitary conditions. In the days of Dickens’ factory experience the old poor laws were in effect. This helped Dickens’ situation greatly. His father lived in a fairly nice and sanitary prison, and was given time to find the money he owed. The old poor law system of giving aid to the poor helped to save the Dickens family. When Dickens grew up and was a parliamentary reporter, the new poor laws were about to be passed. Dickens realized that the new poor laws would bring doom to many families. The new poor laws did not help the poor but worsened their condition in order to drive them to work.

Story-truth, these are the truths that cannot be seen but are known to exist. These connect with a person on an empathetic level. Tim uses his storytelling ability to highlight that even when a story is not true that it can be truer than a story that is founded in happening-truth. In a Tale of Two Cities a story truth can be seen in Chapter XV “Knitting”. The man who killed the Marquis is placed in a series of horrible tortures to atone for his crime. The ultimate result is an expounding of fact within the town nearby. The revolutionists of France use this story to portray the absolute horridness of the aristocracy. The “mender of roads”, who claims to have witnessed the whole event, states:

INTRODUCTION: Charles Dickens is said to be one of the greatest writers that has ever lived. Before we read one of his works in class, I would like you to spend some time getting to know this man and learning what the world was like as he knew it.

Social class systems in the nineteenth century were comprised of the upper class, the middle class, the working class, and the underclass. The different social classes can be “distinguished by inequalities in such areas as power, authority, wealth, working and living conditions, life-styles, life-span, education, religion, and culture” (Cody). The poor, also known as peasants, were usually mistreated and segregated from the wealthy, or those of higher class. During his time, Charles Dickens “seen as a champion of “the poor” by some of the poor themselves” (“What was”). It is said that one of his greatest achievements “was to bring the problem of poverty to the attention of his readers through introducing varieties of poor persons into almost all of his novels, and showing the “deserving” majority of the poor, bravely struggling against the forces arrayed against them” (“What was”). This is clearly evident in A Tale of Two Cities. During the nineteenth century Victorian era, social class systems were a common excuse for the division and mistreatment of many individuals, as evidenced in Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.

Though Dickens’ beliefs may not have been traditional in his time or the modern era of today, he proved to be morally strong and stood out as a passionate social reformer. Dickens' views on society were established at a young age. Beginning at age 12, Dickens was forced to work at a shoe-blacking factory due to his father’s imprisonment in

The ancien regime is essentially the aristocratic bloodline, and the Marquis is another symbol of the immorality within France. The Marquis Evremonde is arrogant and cruel, considering that he has grown up in an environment where he is the center of everything and gets everything he desires. Dickens creates him as an overall representation of the aristocratic mindset. “Not a voice, or a hand, or even an eye was raised. Among the men, not one.

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned British writers with well-known and widespread work. Dickens was born in England in 1812 and died in 1870. During this time, Victorian England experienced an Industrial Revolution, which impacted his life tremendously. New factories and industrial machinery changed many lives of the lower class citizens. The family grew up impoverished and struggled to maintain a good lifestyle. The family’s financial situation was strained as John Dickens, Charles’s father, spent money that the family didn’t have. These societal factors were influential in Charles Dickens’s life, and the same themes present themselves in his works. When an author creates a work, frequently themes of their life events are incorporated into the theme of the book, consciously or unconsciously. Victorian Age industrial-influenced strife was a common theme in Dickens’s life and presented itself throughout Dickens’s books.

Charles Dickens utilizes doubles and contrasts to enhance the plot of Dickens uses parallels in characters, social classes, and events that compliment each other to strengthen the plot. Its themes of violence in revolutionaries, resurrection, and sacrifice also help support the story.

He is more concerned about his horse rather than a young boy he killed. Because he sees the lower class as objects or pitiable beings, he bares no compassion or feeling for them, therefore, remaining indifferent. The Marquis’s indifference and selfishness aids in portraying the mistreatment of the upper class to the lower class during his time. This causes most, if not everyone, to despise him

The Victorian era is one full of grieving for many. Poverty, disease, and death all became evident. Out of this negativity, however, came one of the most well-known classic writers—Charles Dickens. Dickens experienced these hardships first-hand. At a young age, his father accumulated a large amount of debt which then forced Charles to halt his learning career and begin excessive amounts of work in a low-class factory.

Out of all the compelling characters in this story, Lucie Manette and Jarvis Lorry are the two that are most interesting to me. In the beginning of the story, they were strangers. However, as the plot develops, we find out they have actually met before. When Lucie became an orphan, Lorry took her to England to be raised. This action shows that Lorry cared for Lucie and wanted what was best for her. They meet again when he takes Lucie to her father. Throughout the story, they grow a strong bond.

Charles Dickens is one of the most influential writers in history and was “born in Landport, now part of Portsmouth, on February 7th, 1812”(Priestly 5). Despite being the successful writer that he was in life, Dickens had very humble beginnings and because his Father, John Huffman Dickens, “lacked the money to support his family adequetly” , Dickens lived in poverty through out most of his childhood (Collins). Matters only got worse, however, when Dickens’s Father had to “spen[d] time in prison for debt” causing Dickens to have to “work in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish” (Collins). It was a horrible experience for him, but it also helped him to no doubt feel pity for the poor, which is

Charles Dickens came from a working class background and was taken away from his family to work in a dirty, filthy warehouse. Some of his brothers and sisters died when they were young. He did not have a good childhood. All his work, his novels were based on the main characters being poor, working class, uneducated with some sort of disability.

The rise of the industrial Revolution in the English Victorian society caused the English economy to flourish but at the same time had some drastic consequences on the social lives of people which Dickens highlighted in his novel. Most of the story’s narrative is based on what Dickens experienced while roaming in the streets of London (Marlow, 1). Moreover, the novel covers various social setbacks which were the reason for the injustice found in English society. The story shows various aspects of social themes such as class struggles, poverty, criminality, religion, identity, charity, corruption, mob mentality, plight of orphans, plight of women and injustice.