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Tale Of Two Cities Comparison Essay

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No movie can fully come close to being accurate when compared to a book. Movies from the “Harry Potter” franchise confirmed that even though their films were very detailed and lengthy, it's almost impossible. That doesn’t mean that they are not similar though. In the book “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, characters such as Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge, and certain scenes were portrayed well in the film adaptation.

In the book, we meet the ever so beautiful and kind Lucie Manette. We meet her when she and Jarvis Lorry are going to the Defarges’ shop to pick up her father, Dr. Manette, who has been locked in the Bastille for the past 18 years. Lucie was very young in the book as well as the movie. Lines such as “...a young lady of not more than seventeen…” (chapter 3, book 1) and “‘No, no, no; you are too young, too blooming. It can’t be…” when Dr. Manette realizes Lucie is too young to be his late wife help us know this important information. In the movie, the actress that played Lucie was also young and innocent looking like the book described her to be. Lucie is one of the many characters that were portrayed well in the movie aside from her having red hair instead of being a blonde. …show more content…

In the movie the boy is seen running in the streets trying to get out of the way of the carriage and horses that were going very quickly. The camera pans away from the wheels but we later see Gaspard holding that child’s body. In the book Charles Dickens didn’t describe how the body looked but he did write the line “‘Killed!’ shrieked the man, in wild desperation, extending both arms at their length above his head, and staring at him. ‘Dead!’” to set the scene and give readers an insight as to how distressed Gaspard was. The movie and book included this scene to show the injustice of the time period as

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