Tale Of Two Cities

Charles Dickens uses a number of techniques to evoke different feelings from the reader. He uses pathos to stir up feelings up pity, sorrow, and compassion within us, as he does during the scene in which Lucie Manette meets her father for the first time. He uses anaphora, which is defined as '"'the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs (www.dictionary.com).'"' This can be seen when Dickens describes '"'hunger'"' as being the controlling force behind the peasants"'" lives. Another method Dickens uses is how he gets the reader to feel a certain way about certain characters, and he does that through those characters"'" words and actions. Sidney Carton is one such character. Through his '"'three-dimensionality,'"' Dickens makes the reader '"'like'"' Sidney Carton.
Sydney Carton is given much more dimension than any other character in this story with the possible exception of Madame Defarge. The reason Dicken...