Violence In A Tale Of Two Cities

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of darkness…”(Dickens 3).In the real world there are times where there is the good and the bad , but the bad always has to come to an end. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens the story faced the two sides of the good and bad. The main part was that upper-society of people would oppressed lower classes and the lower classes would use violence against. However, the violence used against doesnt work it even brings more violence like in the real world. For example back in the history there was violence between two races of color were people got oppressed, and killed. Overall, Violence is not acceptable way to fight oppression, but
In other more circumstances violence should not be the first source but it should be the last resource for people to use violence because instead of solving the conflict violence becomes worse and worse instead of solve in it. In a article Nelson Mandela stated “This required a plan which was flexible and which permitted us to act in accordance with the needs of the times; all, the plan had to be one which recognized civil war as the last resort.... We did not want to committed to civil war , but we wanted to be ready if it became inevitable”(On Violence). Nelson Mandela , Directed a campaign of peaceful, but he was willing to use violence in order to stop the embraced racism. Mandela used Sabotage which encourage whites to used even more brutal repression. Using Violence doesn't help instead it makes more harm to humanity.For example in the book A Tale of Two Cities it talked about a woman called Madame Defarge whom family was killed when she was little which she wanted revenge and destroy the whole generation family of Darney’s even innocent people by the usage of violence. However in her revenge back she didn't get nothing. ”it passed out in the air,like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground”(Dickens 257). When she was going to use violence to destroy the family she end up killing herself with the same gun she wanted to kill Darney’s family. This shows that violence won't solve anything because at the end things will still be the

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