Tale Of Two Cities Vs Frankenstein

Books that contain similarities that are from two different time periods is like eggs and ketchup, a totally weird combination but somehow taste delicious. Narratives that connect throughout history makes it fun for both readers and teachers alike to analyses and further compare the texts. Frankenstein, a novel that takes place during the Scientific Revolution, is about a young scientist who is terrorized by his own creation of a monster using science. Readers see Victor Frankenstein, the main character, making sacrifices himself along with for his family to ensure their safety. Similarly, in A Tale of Two Cities, several characters make sacrifices such as Sydney Carton sacrificing his own life to preserve Lucie’s family and the French people who sacrifice themselves to be free from the monarchy’s harsh rule. In both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, along with Charles Dicken’s A …show more content…
When looking at the poor stricken country Dickens states “Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation. Every green leaf, every blade of grass and blade of grain, was as shrivelled and poor as the miserable people” (Dickens 175). Here, Dickens portrays a national suffering in both the French people along with the world they inhabit. Misery and suffering are the two main filters that Dickens’s depicts in this quote and how “every blade of grain, was as shriveled and poor as the miserable people”. These comprehensive observations of the country’s physical state show how much suffering and injustice the peasants had to endure during these revolutionary times. Further, as the novel goes on, the people being to fight more due to their realization that they are going to die anyways, so might as well sacrifice themselves in something they believe in,