Questions from "A Tale of Two Cities"?
From Book 1, Chapter 1... 1. What was the attitude of British and French nobility concerning the future of their rule? 2. In France, what was a common punishment for not kneeling to honor monks? 3. What was the crime situation in England at this time? thanks to anyone who can answer ANY of these... -Tanner
Questions on the book "A Tale of Two Cities"?
Okay so in my English class were reading that book and I haven't gotten a chance to actually start it. These are some questions I have about the book. Its to help us study for our test. if you could tell me where I can find it (like page number) or the actual answer that would help A LOT!! 1. What are the conditions of England and France in the late 18th century? 2. Where did the message for Jarvis Lorry come from? And what was the message? 3. What is Mr.Lorry's reply, and what does he mean by it? 4. What dream does Mr.Lorry keep having while riding in the coach, and what does it foreshadow? 5. What is a scene that illustrates the poverty of the people in Saint Antoine? 6. In what way does hunger affect the town of St.Antoine? 7 describe Monieur and Madame Defarge. 8. what was Dr.Manette doing when they visited him in the garret?What did he give as his name and why?
A TALE OF TWO CITIES QUESTION! PLEASE HELP! :)?
For my English class I have to read A Tale of Two Cities. We have to answer a ton of questions and I'm having trouble answering them. Here are the questions! What is your opinion of the scene in which Dr. Manette meets Lucie in the attic room? Do you find it real and convincing, or sentimental and corny? Explain your answer, citing evidence from the text. To what person does the title of Book the Second, "The Golden Thread," refer? Why is this title a good one?
What are the two cities in A Tale of Two Cities?
At the most basic, Paris and London.At other levels - rich and poor, remembering and forgetting, the loved and the unloved, the downtrodden and the downtreading, those taking revenge and those having vengeance wreaked upon them. It's a novel of dichotomies.
Irony in a Tale of Two Cities?
Verbal irony is used many time in A Tale of Two Cities. It is used when Mr. Lorry talks about himself being a man of business. This is a type of irony because at the end of the book Mr. Lorry is very kind hearted and very friendly and very unbusiness like. Also another example of verbal irony is when Jerry Cruncher is called an honest tradesman. Another example of verbal irony is when Monsieur Marquis tell Gaspard that he does not know how to take care of his child yet Monsieur Marquis can not even take care of himself. Monsieur Marquis is killed by Gaspard in his sleep because Monsieur Marquis ran over Gaspard's child and Gaspard got really angry. Finally the last example of verbal irony used by Dickens is when at first Stryver is called the fellow of delicacy and Carton is called the fellow no delicacy. It turns out that Sydney Carton is the fellow of delicacy because of what he did for Darney at the end of the book. Stryver is really the fellow of no delicacy and it also shows at the end of the book.
I have a couple "A Tale of Two Cities" questions. (PLEASE HELP)?
These are questions asked about Charles Dickens', "A Tale of Two Cities". Quesiton # 1. After he recovers, Mr. Lorry and Dr. Manette discuss the doctor’s reaction in the third person—as if it happened to someone else. Why do they discuss it in the third person? Question # 2. It is possible that there would be someone who was not smeared with blood. Why does the author make the blood’s presence universal? Question # 3. Why is “human sympathy” essential to society? I hope you can answer these better than i did. I found them hard to undersantd, and even harder to answer. Thanks alot.
A Tale of Two Cities Help?
1. Compare and/or contrast the two main female figures in the novel - Madame Defarge and Lucie Manette. 2. Compare and/or contrast two significant male figures - Darnay and Sydney Carton? 3. Why is the novel a tragic comedy? 4. What is Dickens' idea of the ideal of manliness? Who in the book best represents this concept? 5. If Dickens critiques both the obscene excesses of the aristocracy and the excesses of the people during the revolution, is he even-handed, or does he sway the reader to siding with one? Explain your answer. 6. What is the role of servants in this novel? 7. Explain Carton as a Christ-figure in the book. 8. What is Mr. Lorry's role in the book? 9. Explain Dickens' attitude towards the revolution. How is it developed in the course of the novel? 10. Explain three significant ironies in the book and why they are important. 11. Explain Dickens' use of repetition in the novel, giving specific examples. 12. How is the theme of resurrection developed through the plot. 13. Contrast the cities of London and Paris as they are depicted in the novel.
What has the reception of "A Tale of Two Cities" been in France?
That the English should be proud of their country and nationality, which finds its most straightforward expression in Miss Pross's words, is a message which many of Dickens's contemporaries would readily endorse. The merit of such a message becomes unquestionable when considered in relation to a historical event—i.e. the French Revolution—which is depicted as pure and simple carnage. As John Gross points out, the novel "doesn't record a single incident in which it [the French Revolution] might be shown as beneficent, constructive, even as tragic"It is this image of the French Revolution that has influenced subsequent generations of English readers, particularly in our century. Most of book 3, which comprises the climactic episodes of Darnay's condemnation to death and Carton's execution, takes place during the Terror of 1793-94, the period which witnessed the most violent events of the Revolution. According to the historian Eric Hobsbawm, British people have generally tended to associate the French Revolution with the atrocities committed during the Terror only:"In Britain…. this was the image of the Revolution that came closest to entering public consciousness, thanks to Carlyle and Dickens's (Carlyle-inspired) A Tale of Two Cities, followed by pop-literary epigones like Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel: the knock of the guillotine's blades, the sansculotte women knitting impassively as they watched the counterrevolutionary heads fall. Simon Schama's Citizens, the 1989 bestseller written for the English-language market by an expatriate British historian, suggests that this popular image is still very much alive."
How was a Tale of Two Cities Romantic?
I personally think so. I mean, to romanticize something is to pretty much exaggerate it, emotionally. The further you go along in the story, the more dramatic it gets, no? The characters, especially with Madame Defarge and Lucie Manette...how they reacted to the events. One's heartless, and one's so naive to the outside world that she basically crumbles under distress. Also- Dickens loves his detail and he really tries to drive his points home with long paragraphs and illustrative adjectives.
What is A Tale of Two Cities about?
Contrary to attempts at placing the novel in the historical fiction genre, there is evidence to suggest otherwise. But let’s start at the basics.Dickens bridges the gap between drama and the nascent novel format. You will notice that the accountant will repeat, “business”—as it was the only way in theatre for a persona to be introduced—not through narrative, although Dickens’ hyperbolic narrative goes on painfully long.The vast majority of the people are undereducated and they shall be ridiculed and hated for it. Every person aside from 3 or 4 characters, and their assistants, is evil and vile. If evil and vile is sought, it is found plentifully across the channel, on the French side, in both pre-revolution aristocracy and post-revolution proletariats. Aside from the Dr., his daughter, and her fiancee, who are raised to the level of gods in every detail, everyone else is lacking miserably. Yet, when it comes to exaggeration, Dickens excels. An assistant who barely begins learning to cook is then quickly an accomplished chef. The fiancee goes to express his feelings to the Dr. about his daughter when suddenly they’re both in tears—refinement of the soul seems to bring infantilism in Dickens’ perfect world.The fact that the fiancee is related to the tormentors of Madame DeFarge’s family, and the fact that every person seems to appear in London and in Paris, not to mention the several dozen other coincidences, is itself a farce. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors is much more convincing.At the end, the Tale is about how vile the universe and people are. If it wasn’t for conniving and cheating, by someone who looks miraculously like the fiancee, the story will have had a most terrible ending. With nothing less than deviousness, the almost godly characters of this world will not escape—and when they do escape, they barely do so.The Tale is coincidentally a historical fiction novel. At the time of writing, Dickens sought current civil settings, sometimes quoting actual events of the revolution, to vent his libelous conceptualization of humanity.