Discuss Dickens's attitude toward the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities. Does he sympathize with the revolutionaries? If you believe so, identify and describe at least two characters or incidents that prove his sympathy for the revolutionaries. If you think not, identify and describe at least two examples that prove his disdain for them.
Discuss Dickens's attitude toward the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities. Does he sympathize with the revolutionaries? If you believe so, identify and describe at least two characters or incidents that prove his sympathy for the revolutionaries. If you think not, identify and describe at least two examples that prove his disdain for them.
Dickens doesn't sympathize with Revolutionaries
• Dickens portrays Lucie as a light in the darkness whose family suffers because of the revolution's indiscrimination
• The woodcutter jokes about executing a family (child included)
• The guillotine replaces the cross (seen as a symbol of justice, the solution for other troubles); many people joke about the guillotine
• The executioner is named Samson (allusion to biblical Samson; who was blinded), the executioner is also "blind" (blind to the morality of his actions). He destroys God's temple (human beings) everyday.
• Guillotine being described in diction of death
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