“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution,”said Osamu Dazai a japanese author. In the book A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens talks about some of his points of opinion with some of the effects of the French Revolution, and in a turn: love. He shows us the faults of the aristocracy. Dickens shows the surplus of the violent struggle by the revolutionaries, for example, Darnay’s death sentence; with the guillotine, killing becomes emotionless and automatic, and human life becomes cheap. The book A Tale of Two Cities deals with the major themes of love, revolution, and resurrection. The French Revolution brought about important changes in the society and government of the French. The revolution, which lasted from
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But what if the book is remembered not by the quality of a nightmare but by the red. The red of the revolutionary. The examples of self sacrifice. A major theme in the story is the element of self-sacrifice and love. Various characters show degrees of sacrifice for the favor of others. Carton goes in place of Darnay to make the happiness for Darnay’s wife, Lucie, who he loves. The book written by Charles Dickens has a great emphasize on love. I believe there to be two types of love. Characters in a Tale of Two Cities had the capacity to love purely, and therefore the love they felt did not transform into a negative emotion. Characters that sincerely loved included Lucie Manette and Sydney Carton. Their love has accomplished a act of good. Since the good was from love, the love was positive. These two characters, Lucie and Sydney love wholly and so it is pure love. In turn some characters were written to love, but they possessed tainted, twisted love. One example is Madame Defarge. Madame Defarge's sister was raped and later was killed, along with Madame Defarge’s brother. Madame Defarge says “Then tell the wind and fire where to stop, but don’t tell me.” (pg. 330) Madame Defarge will never stop. Her love for her family is one of the reasons she
But what if the book is remembered not by the quality of a nightmare but by the red. The red of the revolutionary. The examples of self sacrifice. A major theme in the story is the element of self-sacrifice and love. Various characters show degrees of sacrifice for the favor of others. Carton goes in place of Darnay to make the happiness for Darnay’s wife, Lucie, who he loves. The book written by Charles Dickens has a great emphasize on love. I believe there to be two types of love. Characters in a Tale of Two Cities had the capacity to love purely, and therefore the love they felt did not transform into a negative emotion. Characters that sincerely loved included Lucie Manette and Sydney Carton. Their love has accomplished a act of good. Since the good was from love, the love was positive. These two characters, Lucie and Sydney love wholly and so it is pure love. In turn some characters were written to love, but they possessed tainted, twisted love. One example is Madame Defarge. Madame Defarge's sister was raped and later was killed, along with Madame Defarge’s brother. Madame Defarge says “Then tell the wind and fire where to stop, but don’t tell me.” (pg. 330) Madame Defarge will never stop. Her love for her family is one of the reasons she