Comparing The French Revolution And A Tale Of Two Cities

Many literature pieces display the assets that go along war and revolution, and the works put together by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities and Washington Allston with the poem The French Revolution easily portrays the similarities and differences between the outlooks of revolution. From these two works of literature, the comparisons are summed up by the leadership and the death, and the difference includes of wrongful people. Leadership is evident through both these works and shows that there will always be a single ruler who is not always the most qualified or the fairest. In A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge, the leader of the revolutionaries, who is also cruel and heartless, says that “it is your weakness that you sometimes need to see your victim and your opportunity, to sustain you. Sustain yourself without that. When the time …show more content…
Then from his throne stepped forth/ The King of Hell, and stood upon the Earth” and looked down on the potential casualties (Washington 9-11). In the same fashion, both of these works portray the poor amount of leadership during a critical time and plenty of deaths going around. Another connection between these two literature sources is the theme of death and how it looms over the country of France. Madame Defarge, brought up again to show the brutal killings by even the highest ranking people. When one of Defarge’s citizens died, It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him, but them. It was nothing to her, that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punishment, because they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as such had no right to live. To appeal to her, was made hopeless by her having no sense of pity, even for herself” even for her family (Dickens