Alexandre Manette

Revenge in Dante's life Revenge is a powerful thing to want. It consumes people, and can make them forget the important things going on around them. They think that they are getting justice for themselves. When really sometimes revenge is as pointless as putting out a fire with gas. A man named Edmond Dantes was wrongly imprisoned for 14 years. In those years Dantes sat in a prison called the Château d'If, he thought of many different ways to get revenge on his enemies. The men he thought he…

Mr. Stryver and Sydney Carton both come from similar backgrounds having attended the same school. Yet it is clear that both have built different lifestyles. Stryver, makes his way as a successful lawyer whose accomplishments can be credited to his way of “shouldering his way up in life” (137). His manner is loud and far from delicacy––his being referred to as “the fellow of delicacy” in chapter twelve is a sarcastic term in which it is clear Stryver is certainly not delicate. His presence is…

The historical fiction A Tale of Two Cities set in London, England and Paris, France depicts the French Revolution. The novel by Charles Dickens is understanding towards the overthrow of French aristocracy, but very harsh towards the Reign of Terror that followed. From the title and throughout the book, Dickens uses the motif duality to highlight his themes and to connect the past and the present which is demonstrated through the connected cities of London and Paris, contrasting female…

The Use of Violence in Dickens’s and Doerr’s Novels Charles Dickens’s most popular historical fiction novel, A Tale of Two Cities, centers on the French Revolution and focuses on the struggles and interconnecting stories of the poor citizens of France and the rich “aristocrats” in England. Anthony Doerr’s novel All The Light We Cannot See, set during World War II, illustrates the impact the war has on a blind French girl, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, and a young German solider named Werner Pfenning, and…

Charles Dickens’ Bleak House is considered to be “one of the most urban texts of the most urban novelists” (Griffith 248). Bleak House uses a variety of urban spaces to progress the plot and build relationships between characters who would otherwise have no reason to interact. The novel first establishes the reader in the panoramic view of London. In the early Victorian era, London was expanding and becoming more industrial. London was a mixture of slums and palaces, law courts and graveyards,…

other than justice for the wrongdoings. From an audience standpoint she is a senseless woman who has only one thing on her mind, and that is to go through with her “hit list”. Madame Defarge is a keen example of the theme “family”. The Defarges, Manettes, and the Evrémondes are keen roles in the movement of this novel. However, the Defarges are the sparks that bring in the feud. The novel itself shows devotion and that is how they are central to the family theme. She is devoted to her sister…

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens wrote a book around the time of the events of the French Revolution as well as, what it was like to live in Paris. The book depicts many real life events with fictional characters that present the conditions under which they endured. In the 7th installment, "Monseigneur in Town", the audience can have a little taste of how the book interprets high powers during the 1800's such as the Marquis St. Evremonde. This paper will discuss the character of St.…

Throughout the novel A Tale of Two Cities, multiple characters showed strong morals, thoughts and feelings about the French revolution; among these characters are Madame Defarge, Charles Darnay, Marquis Evermonde, etc. However, two characters would be considered to be more ambivalent: Monsieur Defarge and Sydney Carton. Monsieur Defarge, who is quickly judged to be a strong supporter of the revolution, contradicts himself by playing an idle role and being loyal as his wife does the dirty work.…

Humans, animals, objects: any one of these topics, along with anything else that something might see, hear, or smell, suit a compare and contrast argument. Compare and contrasts identify how ideas, people, or things share likenesses and differences. In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, one of the main characters, Charles Darnay, attempts to escape his life as a French nobleman during the eighteenth century French Revolution. Darnay’s heritage as a French aristocrat puts his life, as well…

R5A Final Essay Narrative threads can be transformed and presented differently between an adaption and original text to allude to separate and various layers of the significant historical background, characters, and themes of the same story. Satyajit Ray’s adaption of Premchand’s “Chess Players” attempts to delineate the historical scene in nineteenth-century Lucknow, a city distinguished for its Nawabi or aristocratic style, its potent civic decadence and its relished taste in music and the…