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On this winter vacation I also read the novel which is called “A Tale of Two Cities”, it is one of Dickens's most important representative works ,it was a well-known long story.And it had a great influence on the society at that time.When I saw the title at my first sight, I thought it might tell us something about the developing proce of the two cities, which might be no fun.However, after I have read it , I found that I had been totally wrong.The novel described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on ,which displayed people's great strength.It happened before and after the Revolution in France.The background to the novel is the revolution of France.It portrayed a cruel and bloody story , but it also contained love and friendship.The ruthle and cruel landowners and noblemen exploited the miserable people who owned nothing, but these poor people worked for them day and night.Noblemen had the power that one word would doubtlely send others to prison.As time paed by, the noise of the coming-up revolution storm in Paris was growing louder and louder.At last, it was on the fourteenth of July, 1789 that the revolution broke out.The novel has showed many different people.Doctor Manette was honest and kind ,but he suffered the persecution actually，Lucie was beautiful and gentle，Charles was graceful and noble，Lorry was upright and honest，Sydney was semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm ,unconventional but also selfle and lofty，Mi Pro was straightforward and loyal，Evremonde brothers were cruel and sinister......The complex hatred was hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge ,but take the life as the price.“The Bastille and its officers were in the hands of people, and the people wanted to revenge and blood.” This meant the true freedom of France came.“The Guillotine, the new machine of death, cut off the heads of many, many people—not only the powerful and the cruel, but also the beautiful, the innocent, and the good.” Among the
good, there was a man called Darney.Even though his father, wife and friends knew he was innocent, the people thought he was the enemy and would go to the Guillotine.In spite of a shadow of fear and hate here and there, we can also see the great and kind persons.I thought the greatest person was Mr Manette who had been a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years.What he suffered was difficult to imagine, but he was still kind and loved his daughter.He did his best to save his son-in-law, whose father and uncle were the men that had ever sent him to prison.Another great man is the lawyer, Sydney Carton, a friend of Darney.Before Darney went to Guillotine, Mr Carton changed places with him and he said, “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 know.” Besides, the story was full of love, including the love between father and daughter, the love between husband and wife, the love among friends and so on.In short, only if you have love in your heart, the life can be meaningful.At the same time, the revenge will run away with you, freedom and happine will be around you.There was no doubt that Charles Dickens was one of the greatest writers in English.From this book, I saw some true lives and moving stories from the old ages.I gueedyou must have the same feeling as me that we did not want to live in that condition.To be frank, we all looked forward to living in a peaceful and lovely situation.Though the present life has improved a lot, there were still wars in some places.All that we need was to solve the problems in peaceful ways instead of by force.So let’s work hard together in order to make our life much more meaningful and happier, make our society more harmonious.As an outstanding writer ,in Dickens's work ,the language skill was eential.Each kind of rhetoric technique ,like the analogy, the exaggeration ,the contrast ,the humorous ,and the taunt were handled skillfully ,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak.“ A tale of two cities” had its difference with the general historical novel, its character and the main plot were all fictionalizes.With the broad real background of the French Revolution, the author take the fictional character Doctor Manette's experience as the main clue ,Interweaves the unjust charge, love and revenge three independences but also incident cro-correlation stories together ,the
plot was cro-croed, and the clue was complex.The author used insert narrates ,foreshadowing, upholstery and so many techniques, caused the structure integrity and strictne ,the plot winding anxious and rich of theatrical nature ,it displayed the remarkable artistic skill.the style “A tale of two cities”was solemnity and melancholy ,fills indignation, but lacks the humor of the early works.The tale of two cities wasdifferent from other historical fictions.Its characters and main plots were fictional under the real background of the revolution of France.The author made the experience of the fictional character Dr Manette as the main clue.The plots are complicated, and they are flexuous and dramatic.The structure is complete and rigorous.Dickens had deep love and hate.He praised those who ought to be praised and attacked those who ought to be attacked.The motivation of the novel maybe just warn the English dominators.But I think we can learn something meaningful from the tale of two cities.
