A TALE OF TWO CITIES ESSAY

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens began his memorable novel A Tale of Two Cities this way and it has forever changed literature. The novel depicts London, England, and Paris, France, in the late seventeenth century. France and England struggle through political confusion, which is one of the most disturbing periods of history. On the other hand, for the characters of the novel, these are the times of rebirth and revival. The author conveys the dual nature of this epoch by contrasting representations of light and dark, chaos and stability, doom and hope with the use of setting, characterization, foreshadowing, symbolism, and plot set up. Symbolism and themes are very much so the backbone of the novel. There are many different symbols and themes depicted in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, such as ressurection, revenge, violence and social oppression, the color red, and irony.
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