A Tale Of Two Cities: A Modest Proposal

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A Modest Proposal and A Tale of Two Cities These two sources are pieces of work that mirror the themes and events that occured in Europe during the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the potato famine in Ireland. One of the prominent themes in A Tale of Two Cities are the polarizing classes of the have and the have-nots. While the miniscule percentage of the population recieves a abundance of fortune, the rest of the population. A Tale of Two Cities is a story about England and France going through time periods of political weakness and disarray. The novel mirrored the hardships of Dickens life living through the Industrial Revolution in England. Themes such as aristocracy vs. peasants, imprisonment, and life, consciousness and existence …show more content…

Living in the industrial period in England he suffered working in factories in poor working conditions as a kid. He was born on February 7, 1812 being the “second of eight children in a family burdened with financial struggles”, so customarily he was in the lower class of England that had to work (Wood). In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens displayed his experience of being in the lower class of England where he saw people of a higher class having no struggle at all and compared it to the similar situation in France, in which the book is centralized around. Another theme that Dickens uses throughout the novel is imprisonment in which he uses to mirror his family’s imprisonment in a debtor’s prison. Dr. Manette is a character in the novel that best displays this theme and plays as a symbol for every person that subject to same imprisonment; Dickens described the Doctor’s experience of imprisonment as , “pitiable and dreadful. […] Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago” (cite). Dickens uses the novel to describe imprisonment as cruel and can rob a person of their life to convey to the people of England that more people should

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