Justice In The Tale Of Two Cities

How can one’s opinions shape their idea of justice? Is this injustice? In The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens addresses these compelling questions by using extravagant symbolism to portray the significant theme of Justice. Throughout the book, especially within France, certain characters predominantly misinterpret justice by associating it with immorality, which results in many unfair arrests and murders. Specifically, the French Revolutionary mob visualizes justice as a concept that revolves around unethical principles, such as bloodlust. Readers are bound to understand these inequitable arrests and attacks in certain ways because Dickens illustrates these substantial situations with interesting rhetorical devices. These enhancing stylistic devices emphasize the injustice within the Revolution, and provide a meaningful insight into the true nature of justice. Thus, the artistic elements surrounding the various arrests symbolize the forms of injustice within the French Revolution. The determined tone in Charles’ decision to save Gabelle highlights his opposition to the sanguinary objective in Revolutionary justice.
He uses tone, imagery, and sound to convey that Revolutionary justice is merely comprised of bloodlust, corruption, and vengeance, respectively.
Moreover, when the audience first reads The Tale of Two Cities, they pity the French peasants whom the aristocracy murderously overpowers. However, after Dickens describes the peasants’ ghastly views of justice, a significant amount of pity vanishes from the readers. The rhetorical devices used to describe French mob’s immoral views of justice terrify the audience, causing them to seek justice for all the individuals having been arrested by the mob, such as Charles. Thus, through Dickens’ symbolic portrayal of injustice, the readers gain a profound understanding of true