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A Tale of Two Cities
I bought the‘A Tale of Two Cities’ last summer holiday and then I just put it into my book collections and never tried to read it for the whole semester.Recently, I finished reading it---“A Tale of Two Cities” roughly.It is one of Dickens's most important representative works, but a tragic one, I think.Lost in the story, I felt like being together with the characters and the same exciting events.The story is set both in London and Paris at the time of the great French Revolution.It shows the causes of revolution and its effects on people's day-to-day life so impreively.The love story between Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette and their suffering experience is the tiny mirror that shows the real life of common people in France.“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishne, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkne, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative
degree of comparison only.”— A Tale of Two Cities , Dickens.We can easily admit that the writing talent of Dickens from this paragraph.The story begins like the above paragraph, and tells the chaotic setting.It augurs something uncommon is to happen.I appreciate this beginning very much.The beauty of language is expreed so succefully.The first time I read it, it arouses my interest at once.I really want to know what’s going on next.So it did not take me much time to read it over.Yes, it was the best of times and it was the worst of times, but for different people.For the King and aristocrats, they had a good time by taxing and ruling the people heavily and cruelly.As for the poor people, they had a miserable time.Even the land could not bare it and produced no good crops and thus people had nothing to hand over.What’s eviler was the aristocracy made their will as the law by using money and the power they have.There were no justice, no equality and no fairne, just like the following plot.It wrote in a period of darkne that a kind-hearted doctor was arrested and sent to the notorious prison Bastille because he delated the aristocrats, the Marquis St.Evremonde brothers for they killing a whole family only for an instant pleasure.How indifferent they are!Not until the revolution broke out and Bastille was captured that Dr.Manette was release.Then with broken heart, he and his daughter moved to England and got to know Charles Darnay there, with whom Lucie felt deeply in love.And Sydney
Carton, a young man who adored Lucie very much, was ready to die for her anywhere anytime.Eventually, he took Charles’s place to be arrested and died for love.It seemed kind of tragic.Although the King and many other aristocrats were sent to death, the situation had not been changed to much better.Because people at that time were out of their minds and they wanted to take revenge as much as poible.Once they belonged to the lowest cla and suffered a lot.As the revolution happened, they’ve been changed into people that were full of evil in their hearts.I gue it is the hatred that ruled over their minds.So at the same time the prisoners were set free from Bastille, even more people were put into it, even though they did nothing guilty.At last, for the reason Charles was the son of the marquis, Charles was arrested.But Sydney Carton, a selfle man who wanted to do good for the couple, disguised as Charles and died for him.What a noble man he was!Although he died at last, he lasted forever in my heart.The novel has portrayed many different people.Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually.Lucie is beautiful and gentle.Charles is graceful and noble.Lorry is upright and honest.Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm.He is unconventional but also selfle and lofty.Mi Pro is straightforward and loyal.Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister……The complex hatred is hard to solve，the cruel revenge has made more hatreds，loves
rebirth in the hell edge，but take the life as the price.All I saw there were two people died, having a tragic ending.Mi Pro was one of those women who thought nothing of their own needs and who, through pure love and admiration, are ready to make themselves slaves to youth when they have lost it, to beauty which they have never had, and to bright hopes that have never shone upon their own dark lives.As Mr.Lorry said, “there is nothing better in the world than the honest service of the heart”.Since Mi Pro had become like a mother to Lucie and would have given her life for her, she would do everything she could to keep Madame Defarge in the house so that the carriage carrying Lucie could run farther.Madame Defarge was a woman with a very keen eye, a strong face and a great calmne of manner.When the French Revolution broke out, it was her who led the woman and cut off the head of the governor of the prison.She had a strong, fearle and a kind of beauty that called attention to her qualities.Having grown up with a deep sense of wrong and a powerful hatred of the aristocracy, to her, Darnay's family must be destroyed, and the wife and child must follow the ending of the father, just like what she suffered when she was a child.Both were determined woman in their different ways.Hatred had made the heart of the Frenchwoman harder;love now filed the Englishwoman's with courage.It's very interesting to see that each
woman spoke in her own language and neither understood a word of what the other said while each knew well the other's intention.As a result of the combat, Madame Defarge died lying on ground and Mi Pro could hear nothing for the rest of her life.That's one tragedy in my heart.‘I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence.I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day.I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honored and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.’
`I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine.I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his.I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away.I see him, foremost of just judges and honored men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place--then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement--and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice.’
`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.'
I was heavyhearted when reading what Sydney Carton said before he
died and I burst into tears finally.In such a background, sacrifice and blood was inevitable.However, blood could not wash away hatred, let alone took place of true love.The ending tells us to conquer evil with love.Equality and fairne were what people seek, which led to the French Revolution.As a consequence, neither equality nor fairne got after the revolution, and that's another tragedy of the history.
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