Humans, animals, objects: any one of these topics, along with anything else that something might see, hear, or smell, suit a compare and contrast argument. Compare and contrasts identify how ideas, people, or things share likenesses and differences. In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, one of the main characters, Charles Darnay, attempts to escape his life as a French nobleman during the eighteenth century French Revolution. Darnay’s heritage as a French aristocrat puts his life, as well as others’, in danger throughout the book. Darnay slips away from his death numerous times in this story, but he seems to not have any luck the third trial. Just hours before la guillotine puts an end to Darnay’s life, a hero emerges out of a man named
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First of all, Darnay has a family to go home to every night and wake up to every morning. Meanwhile, Carton represents a single, drunkard man with no children or family to worry about. In the end of the book, Carton talks about how he envisions Lucie and the rest of the Darnay family living a fulfilled and happy life together, knowing that he is the one that let it happen (381-382). This paraphrase demonstrates how Darnay has a future with a loving family ahead of him, and much more to look forward to than Carton. Darnay has a responsibility as a father, husband, and as well as a son-in-law to protect and provide for his loved ones. On the other hand, Carton admits that he has no purpose or value in life “I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me" (85). Sydney Carton views his life purpose as a failure, where no one cares for him, just as he does not care for anyone else. Unlike Darnay, who has a wealthy background and a family, Carton comes from a bourgeoisie background and decides that his life has no value. At the end of the book, Carton says how he would have no better meaning in life, then to die for the life of his loved ones. At this point, Darnay has much more of a purpose and worth in life than Carton. Charles Dickens displays the difference in Darnay’s and Carton’s purpose and value in life in a special way, which exhibits how people of different lives might have polar opposite views on their purpose of living. Every person should make the best of their life and give it as much value as they can, similar to what Carton does at the end of the
First of all, Darnay has a family to go home to every night and wake up to every morning. Meanwhile, Carton represents a single, drunkard man with no children or family to worry about. In the end of the book, Carton talks about how he envisions Lucie and the rest of the Darnay family living a fulfilled and happy life together, knowing that he is the one that let it happen (381-382). This paraphrase demonstrates how Darnay has a future with a loving family ahead of him, and much more to look forward to than Carton. Darnay has a responsibility as a father, husband, and as well as a son-in-law to protect and provide for his loved ones. On the other hand, Carton admits that he has no purpose or value in life “I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me" (85). Sydney Carton views his life purpose as a failure, where no one cares for him, just as he does not care for anyone else. Unlike Darnay, who has a wealthy background and a family, Carton comes from a bourgeoisie background and decides that his life has no value. At the end of the book, Carton says how he would have no better meaning in life, then to die for the life of his loved ones. At this point, Darnay has much more of a purpose and worth in life than Carton. Charles Dickens displays the difference in Darnay’s and Carton’s purpose and value in life in a special way, which exhibits how people of different lives might have polar opposite views on their purpose of living. Every person should make the best of their life and give it as much value as they can, similar to what Carton does at the end of the