Question

Example of imagery in a tale of cities that suggest the reader that things were bad at that time. ​

Answer 1

(1) Dickens uses imagery throughout the novel to manipulate the reader's compassion in the peasants' favor, in the nobles defense, and even for the book's main villainess, Madame Defarge. With imagery revealing the poor straits and desperation of the peasant class of France, Dickens influences the reader to pity them.

(2) In ''A Tale of Two Cities'' by Charles Dickens, verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony are used to create twists and turns that keep the reader riveted to this novel about the French Revolution.

(3) A mirror hung over the prisoner's head to reflect light down onto him. Over the years this mirror had reflected the images of many poor and wicked prisoners who had eventually been put to death. If that mirror were ever able to send those reflections back out, the courtroom would have been filled with ghost

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Answer 2

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With A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens asserts his belief in the possibility of resurrection and transformation, both on a personal level and on a societal level. The narrative suggests that Sydney Carton’s death secures a new, peaceful life for Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and even Carton himself. By delivering himself to the guillotine, Carton ascends to the plane of heroism, becoming a Christ-like figure whose death serves to save the lives of others. His own life thus gains meaning and value. Moreover, the final pages of the novel suggest that, like Christ, Carton will be resurrected—Carton is reborn in the hearts of those he has died to save. Similarly, the text implies that the death of the old regime in France prepares the way for the beautiful and renewed Paris that Carton supposedly envisions from the guillotine. Although Carton spends most of the novel in a life of indolence and apathy, the supreme selflessness of his final act speaks to a human capacity for change. Although the novel dedicates much time to describing the atrocities committed both by the aristocracy and by the outraged peasants, it ultimately expresses the belief that this violence will give way to a new and better society.

Dickens elaborates his theme with the character of Doctor Manette. Early on in the novel, Lorry holds an imaginary conversation with him in which he says that Manette has been “recalled to life.” As this statement implies, the doctor’s eighteen-year imprisonment has constituted a death of sorts. Lucie’s love enables Manette’s spiritual renewal, and her maternal cradling of him on her breast reinforces this notion of rebirth.