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Essay / Inhumanity - 972
Charles Dickens was an English writer born in the 1800s. Dickens named this book A Tale of Two Cities because it is a parallel between London and Paris. In A Tale of Two Cities, many wrongs are committed by peasants who want to do good. Dickens is very descriptive in part to get across the idea of man's inhumanity to man. Charles Dickens creates scenes like the guillotine, the use of the bluebottle analogy, and Madame Defarge's hate-stricken heart to develop the theme of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. Man's inhumanity towards his neighbor is shown in the guillotine scenes when the peasants do many cruel acts. jokes. Although it's not very funny, because many innocent people are sent to the guillotine because of the law of suspects. The law on suspects stipulates that any person “suspected of being in alliance with an émigré or a spy is likely to be arrested and will be tried.” In A Tale of Two Cities, two influential characters are victims of the law of suspects, Charles Darnay and a young seamstress. Charles is condemned to death by the guillotine but Carton, a "brave and generous friend", took his place and the only person who noticed is the seamstress who dies thinking that Carton is a hero. In this quote we see how cruel and deadly the law of suspects is: “A revolutionary tribunal in the capital, and forty or fifty thousand revolutionary committees throughout the country; a suspect law, which removed all security of liberty or life, and handed over every good and innocent person to every bad and guilty person; prisons full of people who had committed no crime and who could not get a hearing; these things became the established order and nature of designated things, and seemed to be an ancient usage before they were... middle of paper ......ie. She will be able to attack the justice of the Republic. She will be full of sympathy towards her enemies. I will go to her. »(280). This is very cruel and unjustified. In A Tale of Two Cities, there is a lot of unspeakable cruelty towards the upper class that leads to the deaths of many innocent or good people. In A Tale of Two Cities, there is a lot of cruelty because of my hatred that struck the heart, from the guillotine scene. The analogy with bluebottles and the hatred of Madame Defarge caused many deaths. The guillotine decapitated many people, to the joke of the peasants but at the expense of the aristocrat. The blue flies were also very eager for blood and finally Madame Defarge's hatred towards the upper classes. In A Tale of Two Cities there are many examples of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. This book shows us that we should learn from the past.