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Untitled Essay Research Paper By Renee Frailey

Untitled Essay, Research Paper


By: Renee Frailey Charles Dickens promotes heroism and evil acts in A Tale


of Two Cities like the revolutionists promoted vengeance in France. Dickens


wrote of many actions to choose, but the main performences displayed are


easily recognized in the novel. In this story, good and evil come face to


face many times, and they counter-attack each other in very simple ways.


The first act of heroism to be discussed is the fact that Charles Darnay,


an exile from France, chose to return to Paris to relieve a friend from jail.


Darnay thought this action over, and reluctantly decided to face his fears


of the people in France. He did not have to answer his friend’s plea, but


he did because Dickens chose this character to be one of the perfect characters


that is obsolete in society today. Darnay is unusual because he knew he would


become in danger by going to Paris, but as Dickens said in the second book,


“He sat up late, and wrote two fervent letters; one was to Lucie, explaining


the strong obligation he was under to go to Paris, and showing her, at length,


the reasons that he had, for feeling confident that he could become involved


in no personal danger there,” (p. 241) he went anyway– clearly not for himself.


Another act that Dickens showed in this novel was the occurence of Miss Pross


and Madame Defarge coming face to face. This is the most evident scene of


good and evil colliding. “‘I know that your intentions are evil,’ said Miss


Pross, ‘and you may depend upon it, I’ll hold my own against them.’” (p.


358) This statement clearly showed that Miss Pross’s intentions were good,


and they were only to save Lucie’s life. Although Madame Defarge died by


the struggle, this incident was purely out of love and devotion to someone


dear to Miss Pross. The most heroic act in the novel made its show near the


last of the book. The event of Sydney Carton replacing Charles Darnay with


himself to be beheaded was by far the stupidest thing a person could have


done, but it was also the most intrepid acts of any character in A Tale of


Two Cities. “‘Of all the people upon earth, you least expected to see me?’”


was Carton’s declaration to Darnay when he first showed his face to him in


the prison cell. Of course

because Darnay did not think he was likable by


Carton, he was evidently surprised to see that Carton would come to his rescue.


Sydney did not have to do what he did to save Darnay’s life, but he did simply


because he loved a woman Darnay had in his grasp. He knew she would never


be with him, so he gave her the life of Darnay to make her happy. Anyone


that would sacrifice his own life for the love of someone unattainable is


a hero in any book. The first evil action to be discussed is the incident


when the Marquis St. Evrémonde’s carriage rolled over and killed a


small child. The Marquis seemed to have no compassion at all. “Monsieur the


Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out


of their holes.” (p.116) To many this action would have been considered evil


because a normal person would have at least cried some tears of condolence


toward the death of the child. The next evilness to bring up is Darnay’s


capture in France. The citizens that arrested Charles Darnay did not know


him at all. They knew of his ancestors’ pasts only. They chose to take revenge


upon him because of the actions of his ancestors. Darnay was simply arrested


because he was an aristocrat and an emigrant. “…banishing all emigrants,


and condemning all to death who return…” (p. 248) Most likely the most


evil of the evil conveyed in A Tale of Two Cities was the patient revenge


brewing inside of Madame Defarge. One is reminded of an evil witch by the


actions and words that Madame Defarge displayed. “‘Vengeance and retribution


require a long time; it is a rule.’” (p. 179) This statement made by Madame


Defarge clearly shows that her intentions all along were evil, and her character


was made to be one like a snake: patient, waiting to strike. She caused pain


throughout so many of her victums’ lives by selfishly seeking revenge upon


the aristocrats that caused the death of her family. Heroism and evilness


collide forces to insure that the reader will always be ready for a change


in this novel’s plot. One never knows what will happen because of its twisted


atmosphere and unrealistic pain a character can inflict. If A Tale of Two


Cities had been more realistic, the reader could have known what the end


would have been.

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