The Ultimate Sacrifice
Death and loss are the ultimate sacrifice. When reading a novel like A Tale of Two Cities, a lot of characters have to sacrifice things for the people they love unwillingly. Many characters in the novel have had troubling pasts that lead them to conflict which will ultimately end in a sacrifice. Charles Darnay, an impacting character, is related to the aristocracy, as learned when the reader finds out his real last name is Evremonde. Charles Darnay being related to the aristocracy is one of the main sources of conflict that leads to the ultimate sacrifice of death and loss for many characters. Dickens uses the theme of sacrifice to show the reader how the revolution, specifically the French Revolution, can lead to such terrible endings, like the …show more content…
In a novel like A Tale of Two Cities, historical fiction can express the impact of historical events, “through the joys, trials, sufferings, and victories of characters”(Allingham) as the readers experienced. In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the theme of sacrifice lets the reader realize the cost of life as well as the progression of the plot through the sacrifices made by the Seamstress, Miss Pross, and Sydney Carton.
The seamstress seems as though she has no significance to the plot of the novel but the reader learns that she is making an ultimate sacrifice. The seamstress is one of the innocent people who gets killed by the guillotine in order to save France. A Tale of Two Cities, “is a story primarily designed to move the reader emotionally through a sympathetic identification with its characters” (Allingham). The readers feel emotional when reading about the tragedy that the Seamstress went
Death and loss are the ultimate sacrifice. When reading a novel like A Tale of Two Cities, a lot of characters have to sacrifice things for the people they love unwillingly. Many characters in the novel have had troubling pasts that lead them to conflict which will ultimately end in a sacrifice. Charles Darnay, an impacting character, is related to the aristocracy, as learned when the reader finds out his real last name is Evremonde. Charles Darnay being related to the aristocracy is one of the main sources of conflict that leads to the ultimate sacrifice of death and loss for many characters. Dickens uses the theme of sacrifice to show the reader how the revolution, specifically the French Revolution, can lead to such terrible endings, like the …show more content…
In a novel like A Tale of Two Cities, historical fiction can express the impact of historical events, “through the joys, trials, sufferings, and victories of characters”(Allingham) as the readers experienced. In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the theme of sacrifice lets the reader realize the cost of life as well as the progression of the plot through the sacrifices made by the Seamstress, Miss Pross, and Sydney Carton.
The seamstress seems as though she has no significance to the plot of the novel but the reader learns that she is making an ultimate sacrifice. The seamstress is one of the innocent people who gets killed by the guillotine in order to save France. A Tale of Two Cities, “is a story primarily designed to move the reader emotionally through a sympathetic identification with its characters” (Allingham). The readers feel emotional when reading about the tragedy that the Seamstress went