Differences Of Dickens And The Tale Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

“New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. “(Edmund White) Charles Dickens was the best writer and easily the most famous during the mid 1800s. He wrote at least 33 different books, some better than others though. He has a very distinct type of writing much like shakespeare and it is very different from modern writing making it very demanding to understand what he is trying to tell. If you can understand his demanding work then you will understand why people call his work masterpieces. His life didn’t start very well even though his life ended well. He lived a very difficult life, through peasantry and aristocracy, he experienced both in different …show more content…
He writes about a rich man who didn’t care for peasants any more than the dirt he walks on. It shows the social class difference during the French Revolution in ways that papers on the social class about the French Revolution do. People walking like normal people to licking wine off dirt roads like savages in the time it takes you to read a page. He describes things in such detail that you feel like you are there with the dying people. The rich man I mentioned earlier was one of Charles’ best portrayals to the class difference. The rich man who was named the Monseigneur ran over a child with his carriage and proceeded to toss the body to the side of the road and pay the father a coin in return for the boy’s life. “A man in a nightcap caught a bundle from among the feet of the horses.” Like a normal man, the father came back for vengeance killing the Monseigneur. It showed that the upper class had no respect or care for the lower class as they forgot the power of a horde until the French Revolution. Charles portrays peasantry in a beautiful way throughout the …show more content…
“The women were a sight to chill the boldest. From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded, from their children, from their aged and their sick crouching on the bare ground famished and naked, they ran out with streaming hair, urging one another, and themselves, to madness with the wildest cries and actions. Villain Foulon taken, my sister! Old Foulon taken, my mother!” This quote is during the books storming of Bastille that occurred during the French Revolution and Charles kept most of the history to it while adding some of his characters to the storming. It is the moment where the upper class starts to realize the power of the lower class and just how much more power a mob is against some soldiers. People were living like sick, stray dogs with barely enough food to keep themselves alive. People licked wine off of roads like stray dogs and when people see the rich they always want what they have no matter what making it dangerous for the upper class to be among the lower class. This caused a large barrier between the classes that only grew larger. People wanted change and they got change but at what