Charles Dickens was an English writer born in 1800. Dickens called this book A Tale of Two Cities because it is a parallel between London and Paris. In A Tale of Two Cities there are many wrongs committed by farmers who want to do the right thing. Dickens is very descriptive, partly to convey the idea of man's inhumanity to man. Charles Dickens creates scenes such as the guillotine, the use of the blue fly analogy, and Madame Defarge's hate-stricken heart to develop the theme of man's inhumanity towards his fellow man. Man's inhumanity towards his fellow men is shown in the guillotine scenes when the farmers are doing many cruel things. jokes. Although it is not very funny because many innocent people are sent to die at the guillotine because of the suspect's law. The Suspicion Law says that anyone “suspected of being in league with an emigrant or a spy is subject to arrest and will be prosecuted.” In A Tale of Two Cities two influential characters are victims of the Law of Suspicion, Charles Darnay and a young seamstress. Charles is sentenced to death by guillotine but Carton, a "courageous and generous friend", takes his place and the only person who notices is the seamstress who dies thinking that Carton is a hero. In this quote we see how cruel and deadly the Law of Suspicion is: “A revolutionary court in the capital and forty or fifty thousand revolutionary committees throughout the country; a Suspect Law, which took away all security for liberty and life, and handed over every good and innocent person to every bad and guilty person; the prisons were full of people who had not committed any crime and could not be heard; these things became the established order and the established nature of things, and seemed to be an ancient usage before... middle of paper... ieving. He will be in such a state of mind as to question the justice of the Republic. She will be full of sympathy for her enemies. I will go to her.”(280). This is very cruel and uncalled for. In A Tale of Two Cities there is a lot of unspeakable cruelty towards the upper class which leads to the death of many innocent or good people. In A Tale of Two Cities there is a lot of cruelty due to the heart affected by my hatred, the guillotine scene the blue flies analogy and Madame Defarge's hatred led to many deaths. The guillotine beheaded many people as a joke of the peasants but at the expense of the aristocrat. The blue flies were also very greedy in their pursuit of blood and last but not least the hatred that Madame Defarge has towards the upper class. In A Tale of Two Cities there are many examples of man's inhumanity towards his fellow men. This book shows us that we should learn from the past.
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