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Madame Defarge Buried Alive
2,462 wordsIt is the year 1775. Dickens begins the novel by describing this year with one of the most famous sentences in literature: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" In short, despite the rapturous joy or painful suffering that everyone seems to feel, the time is really no less different than our own. It is filled with people who think "in the superlative degree of comparison only, " and who believe that the world is not going to change. The narrator describes the goings-on in England...
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Tale Of Two Cities Member Of Society
2,069 wordsChristopher Cahn Charles Dickens Charles Dickens is perhaps one of the greatest and most studied British authors of all time. Possibly one of the most controversial writers of his time, Dickens wrote often about the vast gap between the lower classes and the aristocracy, as well as the inefficiency, immorality and unjustness of governments and the upper classes in general. In the books, A Tale of Two Cities, and Bleak House, Dickens wrote about his hatred for government and all its corruptness. ...
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Tale Of Two Cities French Revolution
2,906 wordsFrance and England in A Tale of Two Cities The French Revolution Introduction In the eighteen-fifties, Charles Dickens was concerned that social problems in England, particularly those relating to the condition of the poor, might provoke a mass reaction on the scale of the French Revolution. In a letter written in 1855, for example, he refers to the unrest of the time as follows: I believe the discontent to be so much the worse for smouldering, instead of blazing openly, that it is extremely lik...
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