The reader is reminded through multiple instances of cyclical imagery that the Revolution has occurred and will arise in the future should changes not be made. The audience has almost reached the end of the novel when reading the “Six Tumbrils Roll and Rumble passage” and the proximity to the end of the novel means they are that much closer to being able to act on what they have recently read. Dickens has successfully demonstrated that with endings beginning will also happen, but it is dependent upon the individual’s actions whether the new cycle is positive or negative. Had Sydney Carton not taken the actions he did, the cycle would’ve ended in death and continued the cycle of violence, rather than ending in death but allowing for life. The Victorian audience for which the novel was written for has been given a recipe for success in evading their own French Revolution; Dickens is reminding his audience that change must start with
The reader is reminded through multiple instances of cyclical imagery that the Revolution has occurred and will arise in the future should changes not be made. The audience has almost reached the end of the novel when reading the “Six Tumbrils Roll and Rumble passage” and the proximity to the end of the novel means they are that much closer to being able to act on what they have recently read. Dickens has successfully demonstrated that with endings beginning will also happen, but it is dependent upon the individual’s actions whether the new cycle is positive or negative. Had Sydney Carton not taken the actions he did, the cycle would’ve ended in death and continued the cycle of violence, rather than ending in death but allowing for life. The Victorian audience for which the novel was written for has been given a recipe for success in evading their own French Revolution; Dickens is reminding his audience that change must start with