Sydney Carton's The Tale Of Two Cities

In The Tale of Two Cities, there are many different sides of the argument of life or death between the vagrant and the nobility. Hence the name “two cities”. In the two cities there are two different men. One is named Sydney Carton, who is British and the other is Charles Darnay who is French. Within the book, it tells of two different sides in the eyes of different countrymen who have a different outlook on what it means to have pride in yourself and in the country through the hard times of la guillotine. For the reason of hope that France would become a better place, it was “undergoing changes and increased tensions during the eighteenth century” (Campbell 30). With the constant rise of bitter emotions, division in society grew more prominent than ever before. The Jacobin government was very “dictatorial and suspended civil rights and political freedom” in the emergency of France’s empire failing (Fetzer 22). “Ideas of liberty, equality, and the fellowship of man against oppression” (Campbell 3) have all been deemed as important in the political standings of the French Republic, but these were all monstrously abused between the wealthy and poor, which caused the “suicidal …show more content…
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