Tale Of Two Cities Literary Analysis

In Charles Dickens's, A Tale of Two Cities, the structure of three different books is used to clearly depict the moral and to better understand the magnitude and complexities of the story being told. With the first book the reader is put into a politically tense time, a period of turmoil and inequality in France, when the people are on the brim of revolution, in order to set the context of the story and develop the conflict. War then breaks out in France and Dickens portrays how it can affect life on different levels with the complications and crisis. Through the climax and denouement of the story, Dickens attempts to portray a moral in his story, with many religious undertones, through the sacrifice that Carton makes. With these things in mind, the
One of the first descriptions of the Revolution depicted to the reader entails the burning of one unfortunate Monsieur's Chateau, "The [People] stood with folded arms at the fountain, looking at the pillars of fire in the sky" (pg 271). This scene tells the reader that the commoners will no longer sympathize with the elite, and the following revolution will be a bloody one. Darnay, who revokes his title or aristocracy and moves to England, receives a letter from France begging him to return and he does, to save his innocent friend. This complication shows the reader that even though the Revolution is only taking place in France, it has a much larger magnitude than that, the effects of it can even span the English Channel. When the crisis of the book occurs, and Charles Darnay is arrested, Dickens illuminates that not only can the Revolution shatter social, political, and geographical boundaries, but it can also affect something as simple as family. The Darnay family is split apart, leaving Lucie and their daughter, Lucie, scared for Charles's life, as he sits in Prison awaiting his