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Tale Of Two Cities Fate Essay

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The French Revolution was a time of despair when everyone doubted his or her fate. A Tale of Two Cities is a book by Charles Dickens about the disaster of the French Revolution. The French Revolution caused many people to become depressed because of the situations they faced. This fate was inevitable and no one escaped it. Fate is a very important theme that is reflected by the metaphors of the sea, the golden thread, and echoing footsteps. Fate continues forever though rough and clear waters as does the sea. The revolution was compared to the sea. “But, there were other echoes, from a distance, that rumbled menacingly in the corner all through the space of time. And it was now, about little Lucie’s sixth birthday that they began to have an awful sound, as of a great storm in France with a dreadful sea rising” (Dickens 164). The revolution began in Paris, a storm of upheaval and danger to come. The fate of all the people of England and France was hanging in the balance as they were tossed and turned with each new danger. The revolution progressed into worse shape just like the sea in a storm. “The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown. The remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and faces hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them”(169). Blood, danger, and screams of pain engulfed the

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