A Tale Of Two Cities

It is rather difficult to write in regards to the novels written by Charles Dickens, as you have to be one amid the thousands of humans who have done the occupation earlier. It is rather surprising that the master writer like Charles Dickens who wrote novels like ‘Hard Times’ and ‘Great Expectations’ turned on the historic lane and setup a love story that is passing through the confused streets of two outstanding cities: London and Paris. These were the most turbulent cities of eighteenth century. Charles Dickens had woven his novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ narrating these cities.

The Plot: A Story of Turmoil

Love kinship of two strange characters, Lucy Manette and Charles Darney, passed through the time narrated by Dickens as ‘It was the best of the times; it was the worst of the times’. The couple made their way through strange circumstances. They were caught in a storm of revolutionary atmosphere of late eighteenth century France. And they would have scarcely passed through it without supplying unnatural responses to the circumstance they were forced to face.

The story is painted on a torn canvass of turbulent London where mockery of law had substituted administration of justice, the guns were necessary articles for travellers, and the fresh graves were excavated for marketing the parts of dead bodies. The warehouse of France in usual and the theatre of Paris in queer were worse than London. The last phase of feudalism and haunted sense of right and wrong of French peasants had outrun all the notions of civility and humane behavior. Movement of peasants for ousting the tyrant rulers partially ended on fall of the prison of Bastille. All the prisoners were freed from the Bastille jail-Dr. Manette, father of Lucy Manette, one the prime characters of the novel being one of them.

Lucy helped her father to come out of the obsession of his jail term. She took charge of the boat and sailed through the demanding procedure of curing his father and constructing her kinship with Charles. A migrant from France and language teacher in London school, Charles Darney had aristocratic lineage that he held undisclosed until the day of his marriage with Lucy. But his aristocratic virtue of protecting one of his former loyalists drove him into the storm of France. He was caught; he was convicted for merely having the aristocratic lineage; and he was to be executed.

But he was freed through unexpected assistance from former lover of Lucy, Sydney Carton. His face was just like face of Charles. Sydney Carton substituted himself in Charles’ place in the jail, sacrificing his life for saving the life of husband of the woman whom he loved. Other characters, Jarvis Lorry, Defarge couple, Mrs. Pross, and others walked with the story, making it is flow lucid and the contents rich.

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