Main content of A Tale of Two Cities

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On a moonlit night in December 1757, Dr. Manette, a young doctor living in Paris, was walking when he was suddenly attacked by the Marquis of Evremont ( Marquis St. Evremonde) brothers forced to visit the doctor. In the Marquis's mansion, he witnessed the tragic death of a crazy and beautiful peasant woman and a young man with a sword wound, and learned the inside story of the Marquis brothers killing their entire family for a moment of pleasure. He refused the heavy bribe offered by the Marquis brothers in Paris and wrote a letter to report to the court. Unexpectedly, the accusation letter fell into the hands of the defendant, and the doctor was imprisoned in the Bastille, where he was isolated from the world and never heard from again. Two years later, his wife died of a broken heart. The young orphan Lucie Manette was taken to London by her friend Jarvis Lorry and raised by the kind maid Miss Pross.

After 18 years, Dr. Manette was released. This insane white-haired old man was taken in by Mr. Defarge, the owner of a hotel in the Saint-Antoine district of Paris and his former servant. By this time, his daughter Lucy had grown up and made a special trip to take him to live in England. During the journey, they met the French young man Charles Darnay and received his careful care. It turns out that Darnay is the nephew of the Marquis. He hated his family's sins, resolutely gave up his inheritance rights and his aristocratic surname, moved to London, and became a French teacher. During his interactions with the Manettes, he developed a sincere love for Lucy. For the sake of his daughter's happiness, Manette decided to bury the past and readily agreed to their marriage. In France, Darnay's parents died one after another, and his uncle, the Marquis of Evermond, continued to do whatever he wanted. When he drove a carriage and ran over a farmer's child to death as if nothing had happened, he was finally killed by the child's father with a knife. A revolutionary storm is brewing, and Defarge's hotel is the focal point of revolutionary activities. His wife, whose family was killed by the brothers of the Marquis of Evermond, keeps weaving the atrocities of the nobles into different stories. The pattern, recorded on the scarf, longs for revenge. Ancient London The storm of the French Revolution in 1789 finally struck. The people of Paris captured the Bastille and guillotined the nobles one by one. Darnay, who was far away in London, ventured back home in order to rescue his housekeeper Gabelle, but was arrested and imprisoned as soon as he arrived in Paris. After hearing the news, the Manettes and their daughters arrived at Starry Night. The doctor gained respect for his experience of persecution and allowed Darnay to return to his wife. However, a few hours later, Darnai was arrested again. In the court, Defarge read out the blood letter written by the doctor in prison: accusing the last person of the Evermond family to heaven and earth. The court sentenced Darnay to death.

At this moment, Sydney Carton, a legal assistant who has always been secretly in love with Lucy, came to Paris, bribed the jailer, sneaked into the prison, and replaced Darnay. The Manettes were already ready. , As soon as Darnai arrived, he set off immediately. The group left France successfully. After Madame Defarge was sentenced in Darnay, she went to Manet's residence to search for the innocent Lucy and her young daughter. During a fight with the maid Pross, her own gun discharged and killed her. On the guillotine, Caton calmly sacrificed his life for love and to fulfill others.

Introduction:

"A Tale of Two Cities" is a long historical novel written by the British writer Charles Dickens against the background of the French Revolution. The plot is touching and is a classic of world literature. One, the story connects the two big cities of Paris and London, and revolves around Dr. Manmanet's family and the Saint-Antoine district headed by the Defarges. The novel describes how the nobles corrupted and harmed the people. The people's deep hatred for the nobles accumulated in their hearts, which led to the inevitable French Revolution. The main idea of ??the book is self-sacrifice for love. The "Twin Cities" in the title refer to Paris and London.

About the author:

Dickens (1885~1930), a British novelist, was born in a family of naval clerks. When he was 10 years old, his family was forced to move to a debtor's prison. , took on heavy housework at the age of 11. He worked as an apprentice in a leather shoe workshop, worked as a copywriter in a law firm at the age of 16, and later worked as a newspaper reporter. He only went to school for a few years and became a well-known writer thanks to hard self-study and hard work.

He lived in the transition period from semi-feudal society to industrial capitalist society in Britain. His works extensively and profoundly describe all aspects of social life during this period, vividly and vividly portray the images of representatives of all classes, and expose and criticize various ugly social phenomena and their representatives from a humanitarian perspective, and criticize labor. Sympathy and support for the people's suffering and resistance struggle. But at the same time, he also preached the ideas of tolerance, forgiveness and class reconciliation centered on "benevolence". The contradictory attitude of supporting the working people's resistance struggle in action but denying it morally shows the power of his realism and the weakness of his utopia.

Dickens wrote 14 novels, many short stories, essays, travel notes, plays, and sketches in his lifetime. Among the most famous works are "Hard Times" (1854), a long masterpiece that describes the contradiction between labor and capital, and "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859), another masterpiece that describes the French Revolution in 1789.