“A Tale of Two Cities” This book is written by the great British writer Charles Dickens, speaking of Dickens, everyone is familiar with Oliver Twist, “David Copperfield” are his important works, and “A Tale of Two Cities” is the greatest of all Charles Dickens works.

The book takes the French Revolution as the background, focusing on the struggle and predicament of the Manette family in the French Revolution from 1775 to 1792. In this struggle and predicament, the brilliance of human nature is revealed.

There are important reasons why A Tale of Two Cities can be the greatest work of Dickens. I personally summarize it as “One strange, two cities and three nobleness”.

Before we talk about this, we should first clarify what the book is about. The book also has the characteristics of non-linear narrative, which is similar to the style of American director Quentin Tarantino’s movies. Therefore, for your convenience, I will explain the main contents of the book in chronological order.

One day Manette, a skilled physician, was called on a house call by two men of the Evremonde family, the elder brother, the marquis of the family, and the younger brother, a prodigal son. They let the Manette doctor for a mad woman diagnosis and treatment, Manette unknown illness, walking in the courtyard of the marquis home, saw a seriously injured child, the doctor asked that the people inside is his sister, the marquis’s brother after his sister, and want to forcibly possess her, so the Marquis’s brother using his noble privilege to torture her husband to death. Brother discontent, the result was Marquis brother stabbed into serious injury with a sword, finally tell the doctor after the full facts died. Not long after, the sister also gave up and died, and the child in her womb also accompanied her to heaven. But the youngest sister of the family is nowhere to be found.

The doctor, in great grief and indignation, wrote a letter against the family, which was intercepted by the Marquis and put in 105 of the North Tower of the Bastille.

Dr Manette, with the help of his friends, has left prison and arrived in London, where he and his daughter, Lucy, are on trial for treason. The name of the prisoner: Charles Danet. In the trial, Sidney Catton, an assistant to Charles’ defense lawyer, used his exact likeness to Charles to sidestep the questioning of witnesses, find holes in their testimony, and get Charles acquitted.

Charles and Lucy are happy and ready to get married, but Carton also loves Lucy, so Carton declares his love for Lucy, but he knows that Lucy loves Charles in her heart, so Carton wants Lucy and Charles to live happily, and soon they have a daughter, also named Lucy.

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Defarge and his wife were the male leader and the female leader of the Saint Antoine district in Paris. Under the attack of the revolutionary people, the Bastille was breached. Since Defarge was the servant of the doctor, he came to the North Tower 105 and accidentally discovered the secret of Doctor Manette in 1757.

The revolutionary situation was “good” and numerous nobles were arrested. Among these nobles was a man named Gabelle, a former friend of Charles. Charles returned to Paris at the request of a friend, but was arrested. The doctor’s family also rushed to Paris after hearing the news. Under the doctor’s unremitting efforts, Charles was rescued.

Charles was accused again because Manette had been put in prison in 1757 for informing against the Marquis, because Manette had written this in prison, and at the end he had written that he was going to indict every one of the Evremonde family, and Defarge had obtained this document, and when he read it with his wife, he learned that his wife was the missing sister, His wife must avenge this blood feud. It turned out that Charles was the heir to the Evremonde family, and Danet was his pseudonym.

Charles was sentenced to death and could not save his life. At that time, Catton resolutely adopted the scheme of cheating himself to die for Charles, so that Lucy could get happiness.

On his deathbed, Catton uttered these words:

I want to do, is the best, the best thing in my life; It was the most peaceful, peaceful rest of my life.

Above is the general content of a Tale of Two Cities, and then I will tell you the book “one strange, two cities, three noble”.

What is “Ichiki”?

The so-called “strange” is that this book is also like the network novels we often see, there is a very wonderful setting, that is the book of Charles Danet and Sidney Nicarton these two characters long is the same, ordinary people can not distinguish. This plot setting adds a magic color to the book.

What is the “Two cities”?

The two cities are the two cities, London and Paris. The author tells us the cruelty of feudal aristocracy by the horrible scenes of London and Paris. Spies were so prevalent in London that one could be accused of the slightest mistake, so everyone was afraid.

In Paris, before the revolution, people were oppressed. After a farmer’s child was killed by a marquis’s carriage, the Marquis was not ashamed, but went away. For nobles, it was considered a disgrace to draw swords and duel with commoners. In Paris, Louis XVI lived a luxurious life, every morning to drink a cup of chocolate, this is not wrong, but to drink a drink himself needs four people to help him, this is very extravagant; In order to prevent the noise of frogs from affecting their sleep when they were sleeping, aristocrats made farmers squat in the fields all night to drive away frogs.

The chaos in these two cities reveals Dickens’ satire on the aristocracy and his yearning for resistance and anti-exploitation.

After the revolution, the two cities became more chaotic.

On the streets of Paris, those who succeeded in the revolution became the new butchers. Every day, countless people went to the guillotine. Every day, countless people died on the streets.

What are the “three nobles”?

For the cause of revolution, Charles gave up his family, voluntarily gave up his inheritance, gave up a comfortable life, and threw himself into the revolution, which is one of the noblest.

Dr Manette loved his daughter very much, and when he learned that Charles was the son of the Marquis who had put him in the Bastille, he gave up his blood, because he wanted his daughter to be happy, and that was noble.

The last and greatest noble is that Sidney Carton laid down his life for the happiness of Lucy, whom he loved.

In every one of our lives, there are parents who love us, a spouse who loves us, and a child who loves us. However, when we really meet a person as noble as Catton, please remember: even if you do not love her (him), you should always remember this feeling, because it is your blessing in a previous life.