How Does Charles Dickens Influence The French Revolution
In the book A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens we follow multiple characters through the book. A group of them is called Jacques who are revolutionary’s. In this book Dickens discusses the French Revolution. The Jacques were people who were part of the revolution. The French Revolution was caused by the people wanting to overthrow Louis XVI. In the book Dickens describes his feelings towards those in power and those who are not in power. Dickens in multiple occasions goes out his way to show the drastic differences between those in power and those who are not. With his description of each it shows you that Dickens approved the French Revolution. In the Book, Dickens shows that he does not like those in power by mocking them. Dickens goes out of his way when in book 2 chapter 7, he has a Marquis hit and kill a child in the street. Right after he hits the child, he says “It is extraordinary to me, that you people cannot take care of yourselves or your children. One or the other of you is for ever in the, way. How do you know what injury you have done my horses See! Give him that.” Here Dickens goes out of his way to show how horrible people are wealthy. This helps us see that dickens approves the revolution because he is against those in power and the revolution is those in power being overthrown. Dickens also shows
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Dickens shows how the poor have to drink wine off the street while the rich get to get hot chocolate served to them by 4 people. Here we see that while these people are on the ground licking up wine like dogs the rich people have to have 4 people to serve them a cup of hot chocolate. Dickens purposely juxtaposed them to show us how the rich are extremely different then the poor and how the rich do not care about the poor. This means he approved of the revolution because he showed that the rich were to rich and had too much power and it was time for them to get a reality
Dickens shows how the poor have to drink wine off the street while the rich get to get hot chocolate served to them by 4 people. Here we see that while these people are on the ground licking up wine like dogs the rich people have to have 4 people to serve them a cup of hot chocolate. Dickens purposely juxtaposed them to show us how the rich are extremely different then the poor and how the rich do not care about the poor. This means he approved of the revolution because he showed that the rich were to rich and had too much power and it was time for them to get a reality