A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens’s work mostly revolves around tragedy because of his childhood sufferings. Do you agree? Do you expect ‘A tale of two cities’ to be on the same theme?

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I would agree. Class struggle and suffering were major themes. Those who feel the negative effects of injustice begin to struggle against it. Dickens maintains a complex perspective on the French Revolution because although he did not particularly sympathize with the gruesome and often irrational results, he certainly sympathized with the unrest of the lower orders of society. Dickens vividly paints the aristocratic maltreatment of the lower classes, such as when Monseigneur only briefly stops to toss a coin toward the father of a child whom he has just run over. Because the situation in France was so dire, Dickens portrays the plight of the working class in England as rather difficult, though slightly less difficult than in other works such as Hard Times or Oliver Twist, which also emphasize social injustice.