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A Tale of Two Cities
Although Dr. Manette always had his suspicions about Charles Darnay's background, he was never completely sure that he was an aristocrat. Darnay told him that he had certain secrets about himself...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In chapter VII of A Tale of Two Cities, "Monseigneur in Town," Dickens describes an unnamed French aristocrat, one of the great lords at court, drinking his morning chocolate. It takes four...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The greatest irony of the anti-emigrant law being passed in revolutionary France on the day Charles Darnay leaves England is its almost comedic level of inconvenience—just as Darnay is going to...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Study Guide Project A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Themes Resurrection The first book of A Tale of Two Cities bears the title “Recalled to Life.” The words are those of the “Blazing...
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A Tale of Two Cities
One of the moral themes of the story is that love involves sacrifice. Dr. Manette supports Lucie’s marriage to Charles Darnay despite his family history. Sydney Carton not only did not pursue the...
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A Tale of Two Cities
This first paragraph of Dickens is a beautiful example of paradoxes, paradoxes to which each reader can relate. For, no historical period is without its benefits and its deficiencies. Also,...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Absolutely ironical, the two chapters in Book the Second provide character descriptions of C. J. Stryver and Sydney Carton. While the reader would expect Stryver, who "shoulders his way" through...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, there is often a duality to the characters. And, regarding the theme of Duty vs. Desire, there seems again some duality. As the former servant of Dr....
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A Tale of Two Cities
In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens writes extensively about the relationship between virtue and evil, but he rarely suggests that they are polar opposites. One of the impressive things about...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, the main characters are the following: Sydney Carton Madame Defarge Jarvis Lorry Alexandre Manette Charles Darnay Lucie Manette 1....
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A Tale of Two Cities
In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, it is not clearly explained why Doctor Manette was released from prison. In fact, a lot of mystery surrounds this character. It isn’t until later in the...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Monseigneur the Marquis sits down for dinner in chapter 9 of A Tale of Two Cities and awaits his nephew Charles Darnay. When Darnay finally arrives at the chateau, the Marquis notices that his...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The theme of imprisonment in Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities presents itself several times in the novel, as every character is imprisoned in some way. It is noteworthy that prison is used as...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The theme of collective guilt is certainly present in A Tale of Two Cities. It is this concept that fuels the terror that Paris descends into during the French Revolution. We see it wielded as a...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Madame Defarge is deeply traumatized by the abuse her family suffered at the hands of the aristocratic Marquis St. Evrémonde. He raped her sister, her father died of sorrow over this, and her...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens does not actually use this term at any point in the novel. He does, however, refer to an instance of "the sea raging" against the beach. This is an example of what is known as...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Advocating for changes in society was a recurring element of Charles Dickens’s writings. In particular, he decried the way poor people were treated in Victorian England and wrote about it...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Taking a position on this prompt requires consideration of the social and historical context of the novel’s production and the author’s perspective. The book is about England as much as France....
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A Tale of Two Cities
The duality of Paris (the capital city of France) and London (the capital city of England), comparing and contrasting the nature of the two cities, presents a foundational theme of the novel—order...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, the theme of doubles or twins appears throughout the book. In fact, the very title itself hints at the theme, with Dickens telling his readers that he...
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A Tale of Two Cities
After Charles Darnay’s trial at the Old Bailey, Dr. Manette, Lucie Manette, Jarvis Lorry, and Stryver all stand round him and congratulate him on his release. Stryver, as usual, only wants to hear...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In Chapter VI, "The Shoemaker," of Book One of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens gradually reveals the effects of imprisonment on Dr. Manette through his interaction with Monsieur Defarge,...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In this more than any other of his novels, Dickens uses doubles, both structurally and in the sense of characters and plot. This is something that is signalled from the very beginning of the book,...
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A Tale of Two Cities
One of the major and most important themes in A Tale of Two Cities is the dichotomy of London and Paris; where London is calm and peaceful, Paris is chaotic and deadly. The French Revolution was a...
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A Tale of Two Cities
One of the harsh effects of the French Revolution is the toll it takes on French families. Not only are families divided in their loyalties to the Crown and the revolutionaries, but the prolonged...
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A Tale of Two Cities
It is interesting that Darnay uses the number fifty-two for those prisoners of the Conciergerie who must go to their deaths in Chapter XIII of Book the Third. For, in his meeting with John Barsad,...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In "A Tale of Two Cities," the Cock-Lane ghost is an allusion by Charles Dickens to the haunting in the 1760s of an apartment on Cock Lane, an alleyway adjacent to Smithfield's market near St....
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A Tale of Two Cities
The "Golden Thread" refers to the character of Lucie Manette, who becomes Lucie Darnay after her marriage to Charles Darnay. "The Golden Thread" is a good title for Book the Second because Lucie is...
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 work by English writer Charles Dickens. It is a historical novel and is set in Paris and London before and during the French Revolution from 1757 to 1794. At that...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities as an exploration of love and sacrifice, and as a warning that the poor should not be ignored. To understand why Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, we...
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A Tale of Two Cities
This is a variant of the old saying that revolutions always end up devouring their own children. What Dickens is driving at here is that many of the most enthusiastic proponents of French...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In the classic historical novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Jerry Cruncher works as a porter at the Tellson's Bank in London. Jarvis Lorry also works at Tellson's Bank. In book 2,...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Doctor Alexandre Manette is by all accounts a brilliant physician who was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years for reporting to a...
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A Tale of Two Cities
A constant refrain of Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities is the relative peace and stability of England compared with the bloody chaos of revolutionary France. Even in his depiction of mobs and...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In book 1, chapter 5, of Charles Dickens's historical novel A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens describes the streets of St. Antoine, a suburb of Paris, and its ever-present resident, "Hunger." It was...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The barrister Stryver tells his junior, Sydney Carton, that he wants to marry Lucie Manette. He isn't in love with Lucie; he just thinks that, as his wife, she will make a nice home for him....
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A Tale of Two Cities
Madame Defarge is a radical supporter of the French Revolution and is depicted as a villain for the majority of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Her vendetta against the Evremondes seems...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Darnay makes the decision to return after receiving a letter from his former servant begging for help. Darnay used to be a marquis and owned a considerable tract of land that was looked after by...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The French Revolution took place in France from 1789 (beginning with the Storming of the Bastille) to 1799 (ending with the Reign of Terror). A Tale of Two Cities, though published in England in...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In chapter 6, Dr. Manette, Mr. Lorry, and Dr. Manette's daughter, Lucie, step into a carriage set for London. They decide to leave France because France is too dangerous a place for them to stay....
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Darnay has been put before an English court on a trumped-up charge of sedition. With war against Revolutionary France in the air, this is a very serious charge indeed, and if convicted...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The man in question is none other than Dr. Manette. Since being released from the Bastille, he's been working as a shoemaker in a garret owned by Monsieur Defarge. He also worked as a shoemaker...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The last person who is guillotined before Sydney Carton is referred to as a seamstress. Initially, she believes that Sydney is Charles Darnay, who had been scheduled to die, but she later realizes...
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A Tale of Two Cities
In The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay is a native of France who is now happily living in London. When he was last in France he denounced his claim to his aristocratic title and home. The...
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A Tale of Two Cities
I assume from your question that you're referring to Mr. Lorry's dream in chapter 3, "The Night Shadows." As he rides in the mail-coach, Mr. Lorry "nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes." As...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Darnay is one of the principal characters of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Born to the French nobility with the name St. Evremonde, he has come of age during the French...
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A Tale of Two Cities
On a moral level, Darnay made the right decision. His intention was to rescue his uncle's faithful servant Gabelle from being killed by the revolutionaries. Gabelle personally begged him to save...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Near the end of A Tale of Two Cities (book 3, chapter 13), Sydney Carton enters the Conciergerie, the prison where Charles Darnay and the others awaiting the guillotine are being kept. He has...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Tellson’s Bank epitomizes English complacency because it is old, crusty, dusty, inefficient and stuck in time, yet the people there seem to like it that way. Tellson’s is an old monster, sitting in...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The title of the first book, "Recalled to Life", refers to the character of Dr. Alexandre Manette, who has been imprisoned in France's Bastille for eighteen years. The old Doctor is...
