Tale Of Two Cities Quotes Analysis

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Lastly, law was approached in a different manner all due to the way that the government in a certain country had stated it. For example, in the book, A Tale of Two Cities, the way that people were punished when something bad was done, the guillotine was used as a punishment and was seen as a practice after the first couple of times; people who were innocent were sometimes killed by the guillotine. Charles Dickens writes, “‘Down, Evremonde! To the Guillotine all aristocrats! Down Evremonde!’” (260). This quote shows how the government in France used the guillotine to kill people in the the town Paris to get justice in a way that they thought was the right one. Furthermore, Darnay was going to get killed even though he was innocent, but instead

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