Thursday, January 31, 2013

Lecture Notes: The Tale Of Two Cities

-Dicken shows horror towards the revolutionary war.

-Third city: Manchester

-Dickens first had an idea to write this novel while acting

-He helped Collins in a play, which he also participated in.

-The love triangle in the play was modeled from the love triangle in The Tale of Two Cities

-Sydney (Mike) Carten sacrifices himself for love so woman he loved can be with someone else, someone she loved deeply

-The Tale of Two Cities: London and Paris

-Change

-Historical settings

-Time period 1757-1793

-Victorians haunted by memory and example of the French Revolution

-Fear of the revolution happening in England

-The novel itself is a warnig about the revolution

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