literature from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from

family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity.

For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events,

the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the

event that they want to dramatize. Charles Dickens wrote Tale of Two Cities to express his disillusionment with society and human nature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious.

A Tale of Two Cities is a love story which chronicles the lives of

Charles Darnay, a Frenchman who renounced his link with the

aristocracy, and Sydney Carton, a wastrel who lived in England. Both

these characters fall in love with Lucie Manette, the daughter of Dr.

Alexandre Manette, unjustly imprisoned in France for 17 years. Though

wrong, but because he is related to the Evr‚monde family, which killed

examines the inner soul, and shares with us how people are driven to

take control. Given the right conditions, those events could

one way to bring about social change,"(Lucas,288) he then began to

."(Dickens, 114) Madame Defarge's knitting is also a symbol of

what could happen afterwards if we let these emotions build up inside.

impending doom, as she records the names of all those who are to die

revolutionaries: " Well, well, but one must stop somewhere. After all,

aristocrats' treatment of the poor people of France. In the seventh

his carriage over a young child, killing him. Instead of worrying

Monsieur the Marquis rides through the country, a glowing red

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