A Tale Of Two Cities Review

A Tale Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens 

     …Louder, Vengeance, much louder, and still she will scarcely hear thee.

The subtitle will emanate the feeling that the novel brings about. A tale of two cities is a paradigm of novels intertwined with history. The title of this story is the eponym of what it contains…a tale of two cities. One city is in France and the other is in England and yet they are not greatly asunder. The people are the same, the way is the same, and the revolution affects them the same. This is a heart-rending story of a family affected by the French revolution and what that “revolution” meant for some.

This story is written as an omniscient narrative in which Dickens tells the tale of both the cities in interposed slices. The language is not simple and eloquent. It is overly descriptive and plumped up with words. It is not verbose but laborious and slow. The only evasion from this language comes in dialogues. Albeit the language is difficult to read, the poetic comeliness of the text deserves admiration. The plot is also magnificent with a few apparent loopholes, which I think are really parts of my failed understanding ;rather than Dicken’s obscurity. The story is not a flight of unbridled creativity and capricious freewill; it is a structured plot of trying circumstances, and impressible people who fail to understand the real meaning of a republic.

I recommend this novel to all and sundry because of its historical significance and structured plot.