The Tale Of Two Cities

Term Paper Title	The Tale Of Two Cities
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The Tale of Two Cities

In The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens both London and Paris appear to be poor
cities.  The main theme is Recalled to Life which is the resurrection or release of
Alexandre Manette from the kingdom of death and his isolation of being in prison for
nearly eighteen years.
     Paris appears to be more "under the heel" than London.  In Paris the wealthy were
separated from the poor and did not care about them at all.  A wine cask was broken and
the poor people stopped in the street to have a brief celebration while they were drinking
up the wine.  Gaspard takes some of the wine and writes on the side of the building
"blood" which is foreshadowing the French Revolution.  It was said that terror...blood, all
of this is coming.  Madame Defarge said that, "cold, hunger, dirt, want, and sickness are
the noble things that rule.  Another event is when Marquis Evremonde is in town, his
carriage runs into a little boy and the boy is thrown under the wheel and killed instantly.
Evremonde gives the father a quarter for his troubles and wants to continue.  Someone
took and threw the quarter back and Evremonde leans out the window and says that he
would ride over anyone of them.  This shows that he is of nobility and does not care at all
for the poor people of Paris.  Gaspard is angry and he stows away under Evremonde's
carriage.  While returning home, the gardener bowed to his master but he did not bother
to tell him that there was a stowaway because he was for the Jacques, who are waiting for
the French Revolution.  The poor in Paris were not looked after and all this was adding to
the Revolution.
     The poor in London were treated better than th...

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