Tale Of Two Cities Research Paper

The french revolution began in 1789, marking a historic and important time in history. In the book Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens strives to both commemorate and explain that period of time in which the the scales switch between the tyranny of the aristocrats and the rage and revolt of the poor. Over the course of the book france is recalled to life in three ways; politically, emotionally, and spiritually. The first way france is recalled to life is politically. The government was already crumbling and a revolution was inevitable. So when it finally came to pass the movement transported france from a monarch with a rigid and exclusive social construct into a nation in which the political power was controlled by the masses. In Tale of Two Cities, france is depicted as politically reborn when new leadership arises. That change was embodied when the revolution of the people, known as the Jacques rose to power. It is important to not that tyranny will always lead to revolution and revolution in turn will grow into the very thing that it fought against, tyranny.
It was said by the dictator of public safety during the ranch reign of terror that “terror is nothing then justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.” There was immense resentment built up so that when the seal finally did break, what started as anger and justice quickly turned to revenge and cruelty. The difference between the reigns of Tyrone and terror where the intentions. In this case tyranny came from a place of a detached ignorance, and an unsympathetic arrogance, while the latter sought a false sense of justice to atone for their loses. Liberty, equality, and brotherhood these are the defining qualities that eye revolution intended to restore. Weather for the best or the worse, france’s unspoken emotional state was shattered and