A Tale of Two Cities

             If surviving becomes such a struggle that a person must force himself to constantly work with
             no satisfaction and no wealth, then in that person's life there could be a certain point where he might
             revolt against the unjust conditions that he must regularly put up with. There are many levels of poverty
             in which a person may learn to live in, but there is also certain levels of poverty in which a person will
             never be able to learn to live in. If certain people are fortunate enough to obtain large sums of money
             without putting any amounts of labor in to their life, and consider themselves better than a lower class of
             people who work much harder to earn much less, then those people deserve whatever consequences
             they get. Charles Dickens the author of A Tale of Two Cities puts large amounts of emphasis on the
             function and life styles of the Aristocracy, and how they do not deserve the wealth and fortune that they
             receive, but deserve the revolution that was brought against them.
             The Aristocrats are a wealthy group of people that do not necessarily earn their money through
             hard work, but more likely they inherit their money and land from their parents who are of high
             standing. Along with the money, land, and fame, being an Aristocrat also comes with certain privileges.
             An Aristocrat for any reason what so ever has the power to put a person in La Force, a prison for
             people accused of committing a crime by the Aristocrats, without these accused people receiving a fair
             trial. Charles Dickens believes that the Aristocracy consists of lazy people who care more about their
             social affairs than the business matters that are brought before them. "So polite and so impressible was
             Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had far more influence with him in the tiresome
             articles of state affairs and state secrets, than the needs of all France." (p. 99) Dickens strongly feels
             that th...

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