Charles Dickens - Pro or Anti French Revolution
Charles Dickens - Pro or Anti French Revolution?
The tale of two cities written by Charles Dickens is at the time period of the French revolution. But it is not understood if Charles likes the French revolution or if he’s against it? Charles Dickens sees the poverty in all the peasants, he sees that peasants are becoming solemn and deadly the people are. Charles sees that the rich treat the poor like garbage. The French revolution made France more disorganized then before. Charles agrees that something must be done, but does not agree with the violence of the French revolution.
We see that Charles Dickens recognizes the poverty in the people. He describes the people as “… men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces...”[1] Bare arms, means they had no weapons and no way to protect themselves against anyone. When he says matted locks, he’s saying how untaken care of and dirty they are. With the words ‘cadaverous faces’ he is saying that they were so crushed and unfed they looked like corpses. He detects the poverty of the poor pheasants.
Charles is aware that people are very unhappy. He describes the streets of the peasants “…a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more natural then sunlight…”[2] It is common and normal for the streets to feel purposeless and like a graveyard, Charles perceives that the French peasants are at a very low stage.
Charles realizes that the rich treat the poor very unfairly “ He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up… the tall man called out again with a most unearthly cry, dead!”[3] The rich driver ran over the tall man’s son. The driver did not care about a life of a peasant; to him they didn’t deserve to even be looked at. The rich treated the poor people as if they were little animal’s and no rights at all. Charles views the rich as disgusting and inhuman of the driver to only throw down a coin, after killing the man’s son. Charles wrote this as an example of how lowly
The tale of two cities written by Charles Dickens is at the time period of the French revolution. But it is not understood if Charles likes the French revolution or if he’s against it? Charles Dickens sees the poverty in all the peasants, he sees that peasants are becoming solemn and deadly the people are. Charles sees that the rich treat the poor like garbage. The French revolution made France more disorganized then before. Charles agrees that something must be done, but does not agree with the violence of the French revolution.
We see that Charles Dickens recognizes the poverty in the people. He describes the people as “… men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces...”[1] Bare arms, means they had no weapons and no way to protect themselves against anyone. When he says matted locks, he’s saying how untaken care of and dirty they are. With the words ‘cadaverous faces’ he is saying that they were so crushed and unfed they looked like corpses. He detects the poverty of the poor pheasants.
Charles is aware that people are very unhappy. He describes the streets of the peasants “…a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more natural then sunlight…”[2] It is common and normal for the streets to feel purposeless and like a graveyard, Charles perceives that the French peasants are at a very low stage.
Charles realizes that the rich treat the poor very unfairly “ He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up… the tall man called out again with a most unearthly cry, dead!”[3] The rich driver ran over the tall man’s son. The driver did not care about a life of a peasant; to him they didn’t deserve to even be looked at. The rich treated the poor people as if they were little animal’s and no rights at all. Charles views the rich as disgusting and inhuman of the driver to only throw down a coin, after killing the man’s son. Charles wrote this as an example of how lowly