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A Tale of Two Cities: The Awakening of the Ignorant
Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities, writes about a time of change, where in England Queen Victoria reigned and the lower classes of society were rising the social strata, leaving them eventually equal to the aristocrats. ... In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses his characters to embody the French and English nobility, and then goes further to use them show how revolution is not always the just solution by an unsatisfied lower class, by exemplifying their actions in the French Revolution as barbaric and how their hatred for the aristocracy consumed their every-will. Dickens uses the elements of tone, manner of expression in speech or writing, level of language, how an author uses certain words to reach the desired audience, and motif, a recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work to further express his views in A Tale of Two Cities. ... In the course of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, the author emphasizes satirical tone, an academic level of language, and the motif of stone, to convey that the English Aristocracy should not oppress its people as the French Aristocracy had.
In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses a satirical tone to immortalize his view of the pure malice that the French Aristocracy had dealt to the country’s lower class for hundreds of years showing the reader how they took revenge upon the Aristocracy through the peasantry’s perspective:
“Once, he went aloft, and the rope broke, and they caught him shrieking; twice, he went aloft, and the rope broke, and they caught him shrieking; then, the rope was merciful, and held him, and his head was soon upon a pike, with grass enough in the mouth for all Saint Antoine to dance at the sight of.
Approximate Word count = 1284
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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