A Tale Of Two Cities Critical Analysis

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In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, he shows that if anyone gets a big or small portion of something, they will never be satisfied. Throughout the book, he gives many examples to show his readers like how spilling a little wine makes people hunger for more. Also, Dickens shows that people are very eager for death. Lastly, no matter how much people get what they want or how much they have of something, they will still never be satisfied with what they have. In “Chapter Five” of the book, it says, “All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine” (24). This tells the readers that the people were very eager and very thirsty for the wine. The wine symbolizes the blood of the French Revolution that has yet to come. A townsperson wrote the word, “blood” on the wine shops wall which signified that there will be a revolution to come in later years. The wine had stained the feet and hands of the people on the street which also symbolizes the bloodshed. “Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their hands joined, and sipped... Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women’s heads, which were squeezed into infants’ mouths,” (24). This also tells the readers how desperate they were to get sips of the wine that had spilled on the street and that the wine was much more…show more content…
Dickens proves this to us in chapters of the books. Spilling wine makes people hunger for more is something he really shows in the first book. People are very eager and desperate for death which he also proves in the second book. He also continues proving in the second book that no matter how much people get what they want or how big or small of a portion they get of something, they will still never be

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