The Use of Mobs in “a Tale of Two Cities”

In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens opens with an anaphora, about how the world is throughout the novel. A reoccurring theme throughout this story is the battle between good and evil. Most of the novel is about the struggles each force has and how most of the time good triumphs over evil. In A Tale of Two Cities, the triumph of love, the death of the Marquis, and the contrast between Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay shows how good triumphed over evil.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens deals with many coincidences that impact the plot and

Dickens uses the needs and wants for people to get an image in their head about what life was really like before the French revolution. "Cold, dirt,

The novel, A Tale of Two Cities, was written by Charles Dickens and was published in 1859. A Tale of Two Cities is a historical fiction based during the French Revolution. As two groups of people who both live in London and Paris find themselves in a situation that affects all of them, which ends with some deaths and suffering. Charles Dickens purpose for writing A Tale of Two Cities was to inform and amplify the readers mind on human nature. Throughout the book Charles Dickens uses many themes and characteristics, that bring out human nature in all his characters, to broaden the view of the readers.

The literature that came out of the French Revolution often shares common themes of death, rebirth, and destruction. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is much the same way. Throughout the novel, Dickens clearly supports the revolution but also depicts the brutality of the revolutionaries. Dickens uses powerful metaphors of a sea to symbolize the revolutionaries destroying old France and the belittling name of “Jacques” to depict the narcissistic views of the French aristocracy to show his support for the revolution.

After only a few days of trial, the jury in The Stranger declares that the main character, Meursault, is to be executed by guillotine in the town square. The trial and its verdict are one of the important parts of the novel, as Albert Camus uses them as a metaphor to summarize the two main tenets of absurdism. Camus uses the trial and persecution of Meursault to express his belief that the justice system is flawed because of his absurdist ideals that truth does not exist, and human life is precious. In order to reform the justice system, Albert Camus believes that capital punishment needs to be abolished.

Going with the crowd is something everyone does. Whether it is a new trend or fashion statement, people do what others do. Even back in the 1800s, this was prevalent. Charles Dickens addresses it in his books, especially Tale of Two Cities. He addresses the idea of the mob mentality in it and shows it in his characters. One of these characters is Ernst Defarge. In Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens addresses the mob mentality and going with the crowd through his character of Ernst Defarge.

Charles Dickens focuses on the revenge that put the bloody French Revolution in motion in his suspenseful story A Tale of Two Cities. The French Revolution was a revolt instigated by the peasants, who attacked the nobles with vengeful hearts starting in the year 1789, and going on until the year 1799. The settings of the book took place in both London and England, two parallels in novel, two cities where the plotting of the Revolution went into affect. Although the reasons behind the different examples of revenge are exposed, the actions taken with revenge in mind are inexcusable and not justifiable. Dickens portrays the theme of revenge successfully through the joker Gaspard, the brave younger brother who sacrificed himself to protect his

One such man was Charles Darnay, who, throughout the entire novel, was a prime example of honor and merit. In the early part of the novel, Darnay pays a visit to his oppressive uncle who was a French Marquis, and responsible for the death and poverty of many of his subjects. Darnay went to the Marquis on behalf of those being oppressed by his family member; beseeching his uncle to have mercy and act with benevolence toward those peasants he disregarded so easily. Darnay, unable to convince his uncle of the need to change his ways left his home country for good to be free of his family’s misdeeds. In chapter twenty four of Book the Second the author gives a

Again, focusing on the inhumane territory caused by war, he questions, “ How long you Honor, will it take for the world to get back the humane emotions that were slowly growing before the war? How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed?”. Again he is forcing the audience to recognize the effect of the immortalities that the young are surrounded in. Bringing up the defendants’ families, Darrow says “What should he be considered? Should his brothers be considered? Will it do society any good or make your life safer, or any human being’s life safer, if it should be handed down from generation to generation, that this boy, their kin, died upon the scaffold” Darrow is wondering what kind of impact these boys’ execution would have society. It would not make society feel any better or any less fear. It would only bring heartbreak and misery and denial to their family

A Tale of Two Cities, a book written by Charles Dickens in 1859, describes the situation of France and the French Revolution. At the end of Chapter Six, Dr. Manette, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton, and Miss Pross are at a Tea Party. A turbulent storm occurs and incites an eerie mood within the characters. Charles Darnay starts telling a story about a paper he found. After telling the story, Dr. Manette begins to feel ill. Following this is a section which contains multiple literary elements. In Chapter Six, Dickens utilizes descriptive literary devices, such as imagery, personification, and anaphora, to foretell the French Revolution and set the mood of the passage.

She witnesses firsthand all of the hardships the French commoners are enduring and it fuels her rage and anger toward the nobility. Madame Defarge channels all of this anger into exacting her revenge, but we cannot help pitying her for her wretched childhood. We comprehend the reasons behind the madness, but that does not justify her actions.

Charles dickens does not agree with the results of what happened in the French revolution. They were allover the place with their laws and imprisoned people for no reason. “you are consigned, evre'monde, to the prison of La Force… under what law?... we have new laws and new offences…”[4] an innocent man is sent to prison, exactly how it has been before the French revolution.

Working as a child in order to support his family while his father was in debtor’s prison, Charles Dickens had a firsthand experience with social injustice in the Victorian Era. Seventy years after the French Revolution began, Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities, which tied the injustice and oppression of the Revolution to his own time. Dickens believed in the novel as an important form of social commentary, and he used A Tale of Two Cities to shine a light on society’s problems. One of the themes of this novel, man’s inhumanity, shows how people can be incredibly cruel and heartless towards others. Dickens illustrates this theme of man’s inhumanity to his fellow men by using the symbols of blue-flies, scarecrows, and knitting.

     In the beginning of the novel, capital punishment serves as the "cure-all" for France’s social problems. After all, "death is nature’s remedy for all things, and why not legislation’s?" (62). It is this attitude that