Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities English Literature Essay
In A Tale of Two Cities, symbolism plays an essential element in the structure of the novel and permeates the entire novel. Symbolism involves the use of an object, idea, or person in a greater, broader, and deeper sense than just that object, idea, or person is literally conveyed. It gives beauty and meaning to a literary writing. This essay reads Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) as a previously unknown contribution to Victorian discourse on democracy. Approaching the novel through the parliamentary reform debate of the 1990s and through Dickens's earlier writings on American democracy, I argue that this historical, Charles Dickens. Ignatius Press, - Fiction - In this stirring novel set during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens expresses his sympathy for the oppressed poor and their outrage at the self-indulgent aristocracy. But Dickens is no friend to the vengeful crowd that storms the Bastille and cheers the guillotine.