The Contradiction of Love and Passion in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities What really is the true meaning of love? How do we know whom, when, or even if we’ll fall in love with someone or feel a tremendous amount of passion towards him or her? Is there a way to tell if it really is “true love”? This feeling of a strong passion towards someone is shown in Charles Dickens popular novel, A Tale of Two Cities. This story takes place during the French Revolution, it deals with a woman named Madame Defarge who is grieving for her sister, her sister’s husband and their unborn child’s death. She seeks revenge upon the Evremonde family, which caused the deaths of her family members. She goes to extreme measures to have them be killed off. The
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Despite her psychotic and delusionary ways, she too is important and shows ways of love and passion. In the background of the story, A Tale of Two Cities, her sister, her sisters’ husband and her sister’s unborn child is killed by the Marquis Evremonde. She is horrified by this awful news and swears that she will get revenge upon the whole family, by killing them all off. She knits a list of all the people she believes should be executed and that she hates. She feels so much hatred and hostility towards everyone she encounters and trusts no one. She even tries to kill Miss. Pross just to get to Lucie. Madame Defarge doesn’t give up and never lets her guard down for anyone. She always has her loss loved ones in mind, and is out to get everyone for them. No matter what lengths she has to go to, she will for them. During the trial they read Dr. Manette’s letter explaining everything that happened between Madame Defarge’s family and the Evremonde family. Finally, the appalling truth comes out, in the end everyone understands and realizes why Madame Defarge is so driven with rage, anger and the passion for the love of her family. On the whole, the big concept of passion and love is exclusively active throughout the whole story, A Tale of Two Cities. Not only can love be good, but also sometimes it can drive us to do outrageous things, which we normally wouldn’t do. Between the characters Sydney Carton, Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge; each of them had a goal they wanted to accomplish, no matter if their intentions were good or bad. Charles Dickens big idea of love and passion thrives throughout the entire novel, A Tale of Two Cities; he represents both the positive and negative sides throughout his
Despite her psychotic and delusionary ways, she too is important and shows ways of love and passion. In the background of the story, A Tale of Two Cities, her sister, her sisters’ husband and her sister’s unborn child is killed by the Marquis Evremonde. She is horrified by this awful news and swears that she will get revenge upon the whole family, by killing them all off. She knits a list of all the people she believes should be executed and that she hates. She feels so much hatred and hostility towards everyone she encounters and trusts no one. She even tries to kill Miss. Pross just to get to Lucie. Madame Defarge doesn’t give up and never lets her guard down for anyone. She always has her loss loved ones in mind, and is out to get everyone for them. No matter what lengths she has to go to, she will for them. During the trial they read Dr. Manette’s letter explaining everything that happened between Madame Defarge’s family and the Evremonde family. Finally, the appalling truth comes out, in the end everyone understands and realizes why Madame Defarge is so driven with rage, anger and the passion for the love of her family. On the whole, the big concept of passion and love is exclusively active throughout the whole story, A Tale of Two Cities. Not only can love be good, but also sometimes it can drive us to do outrageous things, which we normally wouldn’t do. Between the characters Sydney Carton, Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge; each of them had a goal they wanted to accomplish, no matter if their intentions were good or bad. Charles Dickens big idea of love and passion thrives throughout the entire novel, A Tale of Two Cities; he represents both the positive and negative sides throughout his