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My Opinions About A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens, Portsmouth,

second of eight children, Dickens had to go to work at the age of twelve to support his poor family, and he lived a difficult childhood. This troublesome time scarred him deeply

substantial material for such stories as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations. Though just accepted only little education, Dickens became a famous writer through his struggling self-learning and extremely hard work, and he was the representative writer of realism in the 19th century.

Charles Dickens lived in the period of transition

capitalism, when the industrial revolution originated in

Europe. As invaded into urban centers to earn a living, the bourgeois took advantages surplus of labor by keeping wages low. The poor thus remained poor, and often lived in a narrow and filthy environment. Dickens’ writing

directions about this society, and provided a keen, sympathetic chronicle of the plight of the urban poor. A Tale of Two Cities mainly about the great atrocities

compelled the

violently. Doctor Manette spent eighteen years as a prisoner in Bastille because he intended to learning that

Marquis Evrémonde killed a beautiful farmwife and her younger brother because of his brother’s lust. After Doctor Manette was free again, his daughter Lucie got married with Charles Darnay, Marquis Evrémonde’s nephew, but chose to live in England because he could not accept the cruel injustices of the French social system and the snobbish and cruel values of his uncle. However, Marquis Evrémonde continued his atrocities. After his crazy carriage crushed over a farmer’s little baby as if nothing happen, he was killed at night. A revolutionary storm was brewing. Mr. and Mrs.Defarge were the revolutionaries in the poor Saint Antoine section of Paris. They wanted to kill all French aristocrats, including Charles Darnay. Mr.Defarge used to be Doctor Manette’s servant, so he was kind to Manettes, while his wife’s heart burned with longing for revenge. At last, Charles Darnay was judged to death, But Sydney Carton, a lawyer who loved Lucie deeply, willing to die instead of Darnay, as they had similar appearance.

From my personal point of view, the person A Tale of Two Cities described astounded me very much. Some of them were cruel, crazy and reasonless, while some of them were kind, moral and had own mind.

Sydney Carton was the person I thought the most. He was a smart attorney, without his help, Mr. Stryver could not solve any cases. But he was lazy, alcoholic, and cared nothing and nobody, he even could not find any interests in his own life, it seems that he lived just for wasting life. But he loved Lucie deeply. Finally, he

became a hero, because he sacrificed his life to save Darnay. I didn’t know why the author spent so many words to form such a strange guy at frist, he used his life to love Lucie, after all. But now, I caught it. Perhaps the terrible Carton symbolized the terrible old France, and his change in the end shown that everything could change, including the old France, a new and fine society would replace the violence.

Then, Charles Darnay. He was worthy of esteem or respect. He displayed great virtue in his rejection of his uncle, Marquis Evrémonde. Money and power meant nothing to him, if they came from exploitation and oppression. Even though he had to inherit his uncle’s bequest, he left them to the poor and lived in London throught his own effort. When he realized that he must go back to Paris to help Gabelle, one of his servants, and make right the wrong his uncle had done, he acted without hesitation because he knew that was his duty. He even refused Carton’s help after he was judged to death. I thought, Charles Darnay was a shiny diamond in that cruel and violent society, and he was a hope, the hope of equality and peace.

Third, Mrs.Defarge. How crazy this woman was. Nobody could stop her steps toward revenge, except the death. Although it said that wherever there is oppression, there is resistance, I didn’t agree with Mrs.Defarge totally. Her resistance was inhumane, insensible and endless. For just as the aristocracy’s oppression had made an oppressor Mrs.Defarge herself, so will her oppression, in turn, make oppressors her victims. In the end of the novel, her death by a bullet from her own gun. It shown the

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author’s belief that inordinate retaliated lust would destroy one own self.

On the whole, A Tale of Two Cities is a successful novel. It shows us oppression and resistance, violence and terror, revolution and vengeance, love and friendship.

I am lucky enough to live in the 21st century, when peace and development are pursued all along. Nowadays, there also are many problems and dissensions among this world, but violence does not the best way problems are solved. Violence just creates more problems, something every sensible person knows. What we need are talks and communication. The time A Tale of Two Cities mentions has gone, we should do enough preparation to adapt the coming age.

第二篇：双城记英文梗概

18 years before in 1757, because of knowing a terrible secret, Dr. Manette was picked up and sent to the Bastille--- one of the most terrible prisons in the world, by the noble Marquis St. Evremonde. 18 years after in 1775, His only daughter, Lucie Manette, fell in love with Charles Darnay, the nephew of the Marquis St. Evremonde, which abandoned the noble degree to live by himself. “Let the past be past.” Thought Dr. Marnette, and was preparing to have a happy new life with his daughter and her hus band. But the revolution of France broke, and because of his family, Charles Darnay was denounced--- denounced by a letter which was wrote by Dr. Marnette himself 18 years ago! What a cruel strike! Isn’t it? Though he was innocent, poor Charles would have been sent to the guillotine. The story seems to be over thus far, but, wait! There is another man we might refer to, that is Sydney Carton, the lawyer of England, the good friend of Manette’s families, who took after Charles very much. It was he, finally be killed instead by his own mind. Why? As you may ask, I want to ask the same question. That is because---I guess---love. And of course, the HOPE, yes, the HOPE. When Sydney was killed as Charles, there was much hope on his face. What was he thinking about as he went to his death? If we could have listened to his thoughts, we might have heard

beautiful things: “It’s the time. May God forgive me. But I see the death of all who hate. I see a new France, growing from out of the old. I see a beautiful Paris filled with happy people. And I see the lives which I have saved. They are happy in England. There is a boy-child in lucre’s arms. And he is named Sydney. He will grow old and bring love to my name. It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.