Tale Of Two Cities Research Paper

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How does falling in love affect people? Does it influence the way they see the world? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses many artistic devices that individually advance the intrigue of the story. By using these devices, human nature is slowly revealed through the progression of the story. One of the bigger themes explored is love which is a major component in the ending of the story. Love is a strong affection which results in putting someone else’s needs before your own. In this story, many characters are in love, either familial, romantic or in love with an idea, and it causes the characters to change the way they think to help the person they love. There are many times in which actions and thoughts are completely inverted after …show more content…

Before the events of the French Revolution, peasants were calmer, accepting, and tranquil. Though the peasants were fed-up with the hunger and debt that they were placed in by the nobility, they did nothing about it and showed no excessive attempt to improve the situation. When the peasants got to indulge in the red wine, “There was a special companionship in it, an observable inclination on the part of everyone to join some other one… drinking of healths, shaking of hands, and even joining of hands and dancing, a dozen together” (Dickens 31). These actions show that the peasants took joy in what they had gotten instead of reminiscing in what they did not have. Peasants did not know that they could make a change until the Revolution was introduced to them. Before they learned of that idea, the peasants did not think that they could change anything as there was an old way of doing things with the nobles above the peasants. This order of things seemed to be sticking through the years and the peasants accepted the notion of that not changing. The idea of the Revolution was planted in the minds of the peasants and they passionately fell in love with it for it was the idea that they could cause change themselves. Once they fell in love with the idea and implemented it, they changed from the accepting crowd they once were. Their cheerful dance changed, “They advanced, retreated, struck at one another’s hands, clutched at one another’s heads … turned and turned until they all stopped at once, began again, struck, clutched, and tore, and then reversed the spin… they stopped again… and their hands high up, swooped screaming off” (Dickens 267) The Revolutionary dance, called the Carmagnole, became a warped version of the first dance at the wine shop and represents the new idealism of the Peasants. Instead of keeping up of the acceptance of the old way of things they took it into their own

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