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A Tale of Two Cities - Suspense and Mystery

Throughout the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens creates suspense and mystery to try to keep his readers interested. This technique might have worked for 19th century people with nothing better to read, but it doesn't stack up nowadays. You can paint this anyway you want but what it all comes down to is that no 20th century person with any kind of attention span wants to read a 400 page book with one dimensional characters and an unbelievable storyline. But, Dickens's original audience couldn't get enough of the novel's intricate plot filled with suspense and mystery. To get the novel this suspense and mystery, Dickens's divides his story into episodes, allows his characters to be general, and uses the theme of doubles.

The most obviously way that Dickens's creates suspense is through his use of cliffhanger-like episodes. I can't exactly call it clever, but Dickens's ends a chapter with unanswered quest


wasn't beautiful in fiction. Charles is a rich aristocrat, and we're supposed to believe that he's good and really noble because he didn't want to kill people and he married the other "good" character. Please. Do you think that Charles would have given Lucie a chance is she looked like the rest of us even though she was so good-hearted? Of course not, but that's what we are supposed to believe. Lucie and Charles are so stereotyped and boring that Dickens's should have named them "Snore" and "Snooze." Dickens's under developed characters lets readers wonder about what they are really like and what they'll do next.

resemblance comes in handy is when Carton decides that dying will make his only love happy, when in reality Lucie would be just as upset over his death as if Darnay had died.

Dickens tries to create mystery by having his characters as broad as possible so that readers can make up their own opinions and

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