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Ryan Abram
Mrs Greco
English 3rd hour
2/24/2014

Tale of Two Cities Critical Analysis For this essay I will have three claims on what I think about the Tale of Two Cities book and I will have my reasons and understandings for why I chose those topics for my claim. My three claims are: 1. I think Madame Dafarge is more evil and cruel than most of the rich and powerful people at that time in France and England, 2. I believe that Charles Darnay does not make a good husband to Lucie, 3. I strongly believe that Carton should have not sacrificed and killed himself to save Darnay.

My first claim is that I think Madame Dafarge is more evil and cruel than most of the rich and powerful people at that time in France and England. She says “It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him, but them. It was nothing to her, that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punishment, because they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as such had no right to live. To appeal to her, was made hopeless by her having no sense of pity, even for herself” (Dickens, 365). In that quote Madame Dafarge is saying how she doesn't care if she kills people and orphans children and makes women into widows. How is that any different from how their government was treating them. My reasoning for saying that Madame Dafarge is evil is because she like to kill and assassinate people for no apparent reason.

My second claim is that Charles Darnay does not make a good husband to Lucie. I say this because he abandons her and Doctor Mannete to go and solve his own shame that he put on himself. “The latent uneasiness in Darnay’s mind was roused to vigorous life by this letter. The peril of an old servant and a good one, whose only crime was fidelity to himself and his family, stared him so reproachfully in the face that, as he walked to and fro in the Temple considering what to do, he almost

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