He describes his existence as a supreme waste of life and takes every opportunity to declare that he cares for nothing and no one. He first appears as a lazy, alcoholic attorney who cannot muster even the smallest amount of interest in his own life. Sydney Carton proves the most dynamic character in A Tale of Two Cities.
In the play, Dickens interpreted the role of a man who sacrifices his own life so that his rival may have the woman they both love the love triangle in the play became the basis for the relationships between Dickens was first inspired to write this novel after starring in a play by Wilkie Collins entitled The Frozen Deep ( yes! They say he was a good performer !). The character of Lucie Manette resembles Ternan physically, and some have seen "a sort of implied emotional incest" (not my words!) in the relationship between Dr. Some have argued that in A Tale of Two Cities Dickens reflects on his recently begun affair with eighteen-year-old actress Ellen Ternan, which was possibly asexual but certainly romantic.
Its widely known opening (above) was the description of that terrible time but it is also considered the author’s literary description of his own age, the Victorian era.
It is set in Paris and London (the two cities) in the years before and during the French Revolution.
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