Bastille Day

In Charles Dickens’ 18th century French Revolution novel A Tale of Two Cities, the storming of the Bastille is a famous scene with many literary techniques. During this chapter, the prison for political prisoners is being invaded by the revolutionaries and the governor and guards are being captured and subsequently murdered on the spot. Dickens perfectly creates an imagery filled section of gore and carnage when writing about the official beginning of the French Revolution. Through his uses of parallelism

As with any historical fiction or work of literature, conflict is a necessary element in the novel A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens adequately develops conflict throughout the novel to build plot and suspense. Conflict is opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot. There are two major types of conflict; external and internal. External conflict can occur between two characters (man vs. man), between the

1700s we have seen examples of such paintings in Europe, Africa, and Australia. Paintings convey messages, like a sensual act in various nude paintings. The Storming of the Bastille, painted in1789, was a watercolor by French artist Jean-Pierre. It was used to depict the fall of the Bastille within Paris in July, 1789. Bastille contained approximately seven prisoners at the time, and the building was the visible nest symbol of French absolutism. Its fall was used to describe an increase in attacks

“A Tale of Two Cities,” written by Charles Dickens, is a historical novel set during the French Revolution. 17-year-old French orphan, Lucie Manette, discovers that her father, Doctor Alexandre Manette is alive. Recently, Doctor Alexandre Manette has been released from imprisonment in Paris after 18 years. Later, Lucie meets and falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who is hiding his true identity, Charles Evremonde. Furthermore, Lawyer Sydney Carton defends Darnay in courts for charges of

The Plumb-pudding in Danger by James Gillray depicts British Prime Minister William Pitt, sitting on the left, and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who is seated on the right, both tearing haphazardly into a plum pudding shaped like the globe. This cartoon is one of Gillray’s most famous satirical pieces covering the Anglo-French rivalry during the Napoleonic wars of the 19th century. Published by Hannah Humphrey on February 28, 1805, The Plumb-pudding in Danger first appeared in London. John

Charles Darnay goes to France and when he gets there he’s detained as an emigrant. When he arrives in Paris, he’s thrown in La Force. Defarge identifies Charles as "Citizen Evrémonde." The officer holding Charles's papers condemns him to prison. Charles wants to know why because he has done nothing against the law The officer informs Charles that there are new laws now and emigrants have no rights Defarge quietly asks Charles if he’s Doctor Manette’s son-in-law as they walk away, Charles says he

the Bastille On July 14th 1789, an angry mob stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress in the center of Paris. The sparsely guarded Bastille had been used as an armory and political prison to represent royal authority. After a standoff that lasted several hours, the people of Paris had gotten into the Bastille, trampling the guards and killing the governor. The fortress was claimed by the citizens and was eventually ordered to be destroyed by the new Paris Commune. The seizure of the Bastille was

On June 12 as fear and violence began to reign the capital, the National Assembly continued to meet at Versailles. Parisians began to panic as rumors of an impending military coup began to circulate. By July 14, rioters stormed Bastille fortress to secure gunpowder and weapons. Many people now consider this event as a holiday, as the start of the French Revolution. As anger rushed through them after many years of exploitation, peasants looted and burned the houses of tax collectors and landlords

riots that they caused for the revolution. Before the storming of the Bastille by the peasants, Dickens describes the crowd, “As a whirlpool of boiling waters [that] has a centre point,” at Defarge’s wine shop. The crowd that appears is compared to a rapidly rotating mass of water which can be depicted as a mob that is rapidly coming together as one to overthrow the aristocrats from their power. After the storming of Bastille, “Saint Antoine’s blood was up, and the blood of

175). Citizens were seen as enemies of the government, and they were not allowed to walk freely. People who were opposed to the government were either imprisoned or killed. The storming of Bastille angered the state; the government felt that people did not respect the leading class. Bastille prison showed the authority of the French government and the storming of the building angered the state. During its storming the prison did not have many prisoners; however, it still showed the torture