A Tale of Two Cities was written in the mindset of an ex-prisoner who escaped the Bastille from being wrongfully convicted and poor growing up. He was a scared man in England about a revolution occurring in his hometown, similar to how it did in France. The everlasting commotion of gunshots, ear piercing screams from riots began with the corruption of the first estate.. To say the least, hell broke loose, the mental and emotional wounds that the third estate bared is incomprehensible to the common man. Through all the chaos, the first estate never quite understood why they were being targeted; they were living so wealthily, and had all the power so they were oblivious to the pain they caused others.
The revolution had a hatred for the opposing side, it was mass murder due to anger, rightfully so; the poor class saw the others glorified with their tax money meanwhile they barely had enough for each meal and had to send their children away to help bring money in. Dickens’ novel is one work that truly depicts the horrors of the French Revolution, but it also does an incredible job of exposing the honest opinions of the third estate. Madame DeFarge had a bad reputation of the Evremonde family from the start, and her active engagement in the revenge of eliminating their family name, started the formation of the Jacques. The narrator of the book, discusses how they are only around the age of nineteen and are experiencing such horrifying …show more content…
Even with all the horrors of the enemies taking his friends’ lives, he cannot help but feel that “[i]t is strange to see these enemies of ours so close… [t]hey look just as kindly as our own peasants” when he comes in contact with them (Dickens 190). They see the enemies as
The revolution had a hatred for the opposing side, it was mass murder due to anger, rightfully so; the poor class saw the others glorified with their tax money meanwhile they barely had enough for each meal and had to send their children away to help bring money in. Dickens’ novel is one work that truly depicts the horrors of the French Revolution, but it also does an incredible job of exposing the honest opinions of the third estate. Madame DeFarge had a bad reputation of the Evremonde family from the start, and her active engagement in the revenge of eliminating their family name, started the formation of the Jacques. The narrator of the book, discusses how they are only around the age of nineteen and are experiencing such horrifying …show more content…
Even with all the horrors of the enemies taking his friends’ lives, he cannot help but feel that “[i]t is strange to see these enemies of ours so close… [t]hey look just as kindly as our own peasants” when he comes in contact with them (Dickens 190). They see the enemies as