A Tale of Two Cities

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Best opening lines ever.

Brace yourself for a blood-boiling, brain-wrecking experience as we journey hand in hand to where it all begins. Dickens, the author, paints a gruesome picture of what went down during the Revolution!

Talk about the bloody French Revolution and the reign of terror, Charles Dickens, the author of “A tale of two cities” paints a vivid picture of the time. He uses his ingenious wit to demonize what was rightly demonic. He talks of the great social injustices which led to the collapse of the aristocratic French class.

The author has set his story in the late 18th Century in France and England before and after the French Revolution. Sydney Carton, an ingenious English lawyer, and Charles Darnay an exiled French nobleman, both got entangled by their love for Manette.

In this tale full of mystery, the author narrates of:

• Doctor Manette, a political prisoner in Bastille.
• Release of Manette after 18 years of imprisonment.
• Carton’s last speech when replacing Darnay in prison.
• Lucie Manette’s life.
• Monsieur and Madame Defarge, the wine sellers.
• La Guillotine ́s unrelenting thirst for blood!

Dickens takes a step back out of the book and puts down his dream into the following words: “It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known” These words are timeless!

Charles John Huffam Dickens was a writer and a social critic. He is well known as the Best Fictional writer. He published A tale of two cities in 1859. It was published as a series and as a book. 20th -century critics and scholars recognized him as a literary genius. He passed on after suffering a stroke on 9th June 1870. He was laid to rest in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.