Coincidence
Charles Dickens' novel: The Tale of Two Cities, though it consists of believable facts and convincing characters and storyline, relies heavily on the concept of coincidences. Things that just happen to work out so that everything turns out well in the end occur in multiple instances during the book, and are what makes the story connect. Dickens uses the providential aspects of life to better show that even the small things happen for a reason, and that no cause is without a purposeful effect.
Immediately into the book, as the true beginning of the plot starts to unfold, Dickens throws in the coincidence that Carton and Darnay are look-alikes. "Â…and then look well upon the prisoner. How say you? Are they very like each other?" (Dickens 90) They say that everyone has a twin in the world, somewhere, but the chances of you ever actually meeting this person are far from high, so the thought that the two look-alikes happened to be in the same courthouse is just......
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