Inhumanity in "A Tale of Two Cities"
A revolution is a situation where both sides feel they are right, but can a person in a neutral position decide who is right and who is wrong? In many cases, no. That is the problem presented in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. In his novel, he shows us a revolution where no one is right; no one is even being rational. Revolutionaries, like Madame Defarge, are killing innocent people to get revenge, and aristocrats, like the Marquis St. Evremonde, are using their power to hurt the less fortunate. By the end of the revolution and the novel, Dickens clearly expresses that there is no one idea or opinion that is right. The only way to be humane is to recognize the negative aspects and the inhumanity of both sides. Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton had that point of view and are saved because of it. The first characters to show very irrational and inhumane actions were the revolutionaries during the French Revolution. "A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street."(36) The cask broke in the streets of a poverty stricken town where the people were poor and looking for a way to end their suffering. The people rushed to the wine and began scooping it up with their hands. These ravenous actions are no
" (332-3) Madame Defarge will stop at nothing. This alone is frightening and shocking, but this act becomes even more horrible by the way she uses it. Of all of the revolutionary characters, it is easy to say that Madame Defarge is, by far, the most inhumane person. She was provoked into doing what she has done. He shows his immense compassion for all those who suffer. so that the miserable people who can not leave it and who have been wrung to the last point of endurance may, in another generation, suffer less. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Dickens shows that in a revolution, those who have extreme opinions act in extremely inhumane ways. He would release the tight leash that was put upon the people who worked for the Marquis. Carton's death plays another role in the novel. The Marquis shows again his inhumanity when he is riding in his carriage in town. She is knitting the code names of people she wants killed. When speaking to his uncle, the Marquis, about how the Marquis treats the people Darnay says, ". Dickens shows the reader the passion for blood and revenge that burned within these people.
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