Inhumanity

Charles Dickens was an English writer born in the 1800’s. Dickens named this book A Tale of Two Cities because it is a parallel between London and Paris. In A Tale of Two Cities, there are many wrongs done by peasants who want to do right. Dickens is very descriptive partly to get across the idea of mans inhumanity towards man. Charles Dickens creates scenes like the guillotine, the use of the blue flies analogy and Madame Defarge’s hate stricken heart to develop the theme of mans inhumanity to fellow man.

Man’s inhumanity towards fellow man is shown in the guillotine scenes when the peasants are making many cruel jokes. Though it is not very funny because many innocent people are sent to their death at guillotine because of the Law of the Suspected. The Law of Suspected says that anyone who is “suspected to be in alliance with a emigrant or spy is subject for arrest and will be tried”. In A Tale of Two Cities two influential characters are a victims of the Law of Suspected, Charles Darnay and a young seamstress. Charles is sentenced to death at the guillotine but Carton, a “brave and generous friend”, took his place and the only person who noticed is the seamstress who dies thinking Carton is a hero. In this quote one see how cruel and deadly the Law of Suspected is “A revolutionary tribunal in the capital, and forty or fifty thousand revolutionary committees all over the land; a Law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing; these things became the established order and nature of appointed things, and seemed to be ancient usage before they ...

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...ieving. She will be in a state of mind to impeach the justice of the Republic. She will be full of sympathy with its enemies. I will go to her.”(280). This is very cruel and uncalled for. In A Tale of Two Cities there is much uncalled cruelty towards the upper class which lead to the many deaths of innocent or good people.

In A Tale of Two Cities there is much cruelty because of heart struck my hate, the scene of the guillotine the analogy of the blue flies and Madame Defarge’s hate led to many deaths. The guillotine beheaded many people at the joke of the peasants but expense of the aristocrat. The blue flies were also very avid in the quest for blood and last but not least the hate Madame Defarge has towards the upper class. In A Tale of Two Cities there are many examples of mans’ inhumanity towards fellow man. This book shows us we should learn from the past.