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As Dickens is highlighting a particular theme in "A Tale of Two Citie"; as readers, how is this theme relevant to us? On how many levels are we able to identify ourselves with the main theme?

One particular theme that is brought out in Dickens' with modern relevancy is the idea of authenticity of political regimes.  The Revolutionay period in France and the leaders of it, such as Madame Defarge, utliized the spirit of freedom and liberty to conduct political actions that represented the antithesis of such concepts.  The Reign of Terror became a perversion of the ideals to which the French Revolution clung.  This idea of government asserting one belief, but practicing another is critical to the modern setting.  Individuals have become quite accustomed and almost jaded to the idea of a government being fraught with hypocrisy and divergence in both theory and action.  Nations that speak of freedom and autonomy occupy nations through miltary and economic force.  Governments that speak of transparency and openness are shrouded in secrecy and "double speak."  Leaders who demand action in the name of the many act in the interests of the few.  The modern setting has seen these particular actions as all too common, and all too real.  These ideas were seen in the Revolutionary committees as described in Dickens' work.