In Charles Dickens's, A Tale of Two Cities, the structure of three different books is used to clearly depict the moral and to better understand the magnitude and complexities of the story being told. With the first book the reader is put into a politically tense time, a period of turmoil and inequality in France, when the people are on the brim of revolution, in order to set the context of the story and develop the conflict. War then breaks out in France and Dickens portrays how it can affect life on different levels with the complications and crisis. Through the climax and denouement of the story, Dickens attempts to portray a moral in his story, with many religious undertones, through the sacrifice that Carton makes. With these things in mind, the structure of the book becomes a very relevant element in how the story is told.
The book begins by establishing the almost tangible feeling of tension, distrust, and conflict in France between the aristocrats and the peasants. With......
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