Famous novelist or a novel which is considered as one of the most important British writers of England from the reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was Charles John Huffam Dickens (born in Landport, England, February 7, 1812 - died in London, June 9, 1870 at the age of 58 years). Dickens is still popular even today and all of his books can still be purchased. Many of these books have also been made into film.Ia. He is the novelist most famous and best in the Victorian era and also someone who is active in social jobs.
One of the famous works are A Tale of Two Cities the background of the French Revolution. This novel is a historical novel, it's just that the events of the French Revolution was more a display of the background behind the novel, which appear to face is the human story, the characters who live and suffer due to the revolution. Revolution has become a fiction, with all its interpretations, linear, faceless. Dickens himself inspired many of Thomas Carlyle, a philosopher of history are reliable, when it gave birth to this work.
Dickens cleverly pulled the days before and ahead of the revolution through the contradictions. He opposes the feudal France and Britain are subject to the law. The first sentence of the novel is very visual and descriptive it reads, "This is the worst in history, this is the best era in civilization ..." This contradiction extends until the end of the page. The main character is always two, multiple events, and its symbols ambivalent.
Stories:
The story of A Tale of Two Cities was originally told about Doctor Alexandre Manette in the Bastille prison for trying to help a poor family who were massacred. Although finally free but due to being tortured for 18 years Manette became half mad, can not even recognize Lucie Manette, only daughter who came looking for from London
Lucie Manette and Jarvis Lorry, a friend of Manette then took him to London for recovery. It took five years of therapy. Until they met Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay. Carton a British lawyer who cynically. While an attorney Darnay romantic than French. They're handling the case of the arrest of a spy and Lucie advanced to face trial as a witness because it was accidentally talking to a mirror in the vessel as to London.
Carton and Darnay is what later became the protagonist of this novel until the end. Both love Lucie. And in the end chose Lucie Darnay, while still loving Carton. Dickens presents a mystery when Manette Darnay will be refusing to tell his family genealogy on the night of marriage. Manette already know and do not want to trauma recurrence. Who is Charles Darnay?
Identity began to lift as the events that occurred in London and Paris. He was still descendants of the French nobility. His father and uncle even very famous because kebengisannya. Darnay formerly ran away from his father because of the events witnessed at the age of three years. His father slaughtered a poor family. Not only that, a doctor who tried to help even thrown into the Bastille. The doctor was none other than Alexandre Manette. So he hesitated when applying for Lucie Manette and know who the Doctor really is. While Lucie innocent but tough it did not have the slightest inkling about the origin of her future husband.
The story was more complicated because of Darnay and then thrown into the Bastille. Darnay was arrested when his uncle to see before dying. Lucie who heard the bad news was immediately rolled into Paris. But its status as the wife of Darnay meneyebabkan he rejected the residents, who had helped dicibir his father, who used their dihardik congenial with his family.
In urgent situations, the Sydney Carton quietly sneaked into the prison to see Darnay. He can freely go in there armed with Londonnya identity. By citizens of Paris, London, highly respected person as deserving help the exiles. Carton drugged Darnay who refused to exchange clothes. Lawyers of gloom since Lucie was able to smuggle rejected "rivals" were out of prison. He himself remained in jail with Darnay identity. "Far ... much better that way, "said Carton while facing death. He sacrificed for Lucie, his loved ones, and to France even though he was an Englishman.
Novel Data:
Author: Charles Dickens
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Genre: Novel, Historical, Social criticism
Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall
Date published: 1859
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