Passage Analysis of a Tale of Two Cities
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Passage Analysis Tale of Two Cities
In 1775 there are two cities left in ashes, Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities takes readers so very close into the world of 1775 in the few months before the French Revolution. Charles Dickens creates this scene by helping the reader understand these people’s devastating state and how poor these people are, the sorrow they feel about these prevalent problems, that there will be a revolt as a result of this state, and how he holds it all together with the symbolism, personification and imagery he uses.
Symbolism plays a great part in the understanding the fate of these people. One massive example of symbolism that Dickens uses is replacing the word blood with red wine. Dickens reveals this after a joker writes blood in mud and begins to confide to the reader that this “wine” too will be spilled over this street. This spilled blood seems to be referred to the blood that will be spilled by them from killing the aristocrats. Another example of symbolism in the language of Dickens’s story is the way he portrays hunger as a both a need and a want for political refuge. Apparently hunger clouds the mind of any one peasant but not just for food but for freedom and equality so they aren’t treated they way they are now and don’t have to live in poverty. In addition the poor wish to have financial freedom to live a higher quality of life instead of drinking wine that has been spilled on the ground and drinking from a glass instead. Although the symbolism of Charles Dickens greatly affects the readers understanding dickens also uses a great amount of personification throughout his story as well.
In the tale of two cities Dickens uses personification to describe the environment of those who live in the poor conditions of France at this juncture in the book. The streets in this poor area were run down and disheveled in this year of 1775. For example Dickens describes a street lamp as “clumsy”, a word typically used to...
In 1775 there are two cities left in ashes, Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities takes readers so very close into the world of 1775 in the few months before the French Revolution. Charles Dickens creates this scene by helping the reader understand these people’s devastating state and how poor these people are, the sorrow they feel about these prevalent problems, that there will be a revolt as a result of this state, and how he holds it all together with the symbolism, personification and imagery he uses.
Symbolism plays a great part in the understanding the fate of these people. One massive example of symbolism that Dickens uses is replacing the word blood with red wine. Dickens reveals this after a joker writes blood in mud and begins to confide to the reader that this “wine” too will be spilled over this street. This spilled blood seems to be referred to the blood that will be spilled by them from killing the aristocrats. Another example of symbolism in the language of Dickens’s story is the way he portrays hunger as a both a need and a want for political refuge. Apparently hunger clouds the mind of any one peasant but not just for food but for freedom and equality so they aren’t treated they way they are now and don’t have to live in poverty. In addition the poor wish to have financial freedom to live a higher quality of life instead of drinking wine that has been spilled on the ground and drinking from a glass instead. Although the symbolism of Charles Dickens greatly affects the readers understanding dickens also uses a great amount of personification throughout his story as well.
In the tale of two cities Dickens uses personification to describe the environment of those who live in the poor conditions of France at this juncture in the book. The streets in this poor area were run down and disheveled in this year of 1775. For example Dickens describes a street lamp as “clumsy”, a word typically used to...