Charles Dickens

History Of Two Cities Charles Dickens

The story takes place between two cities, London and Paris, during the time of the French Revolution. Dickens's disregard for politics and his contempt for politicians distance the novel from any political or philosophical debate on the revolution. The outcasts, the London suburbs and the harsh experiences of his own childhood are the themes of the work of Charles Dickens, the most universal English writer. In the contrast of these two cities presented, England is presented as confidence, tranquility, the future assured, while France becomes more and more dangerous as the novel progresses. The acts of violence carried out by the French people are among the most memorable scenes in the book. Dickens rejects revolutionary violence in its two forms, both in its popular form, by the masses, and in its institutionalized form such as terror.