Love is Powerful
The tale of Two Cities takes place during the French Revolution, through which the author Dickens preaches his humanitarian ideal that tyranny will lead to violence, and countering violence with violence can only bring more bloodshed, and only love can save all this catastrophe.
The marquis brothers killed her father and husband in order to dominate a woman, and even seriously injured her and her brother. At this time, the kind-hearted Dr. Manette was unjustly imprisoned for 18 years to expose the crimes of the Marquis brothers. The doctor's wife and daughter had to go away. Eighteen years later, the doctor's daughter Lucie came to Paris to pick up her father and return to London, where Lucie met Darney, a French teacher, and Carton, a lawyer, and fell in love with Darney. However, the doctor found that Darney was the descendant of the marquis brothers, who had fled the country because of his family's various crimes, and the doctor accepted the kind young man tolerantly. Later, the French Revolution broke out, and Darney ventured back to France to rescue his housekeeper, but was arrested and imprisoned. The doctor rushed back to Paris with his daughter Lucie, hoping to use his long imprisonment in the Bastille to win the sympathy of the French people and thus help rescue his son-in-law, and the doctor succeeded. But in the end, the court sentenced Darney to death for the discovery of a letter written by Dr. Manette accusing the Marquis brothers in the ruins of the Bastille. At this time, Carton came to Paris, and he used his similar appearance to Darney to replace Darney, who was about to be executed, and Darney was successfully released from prison and left France.
In this story, we can find that the author has used love and hate to cross the entire story line.
Manette bravely exposed the marquis brothers for his benevolence and was imprisoned for eighteen years. During these eighteen years, he was unable to accompany his wife and daughter and to witness the growth of his daughter Lucie. Even because of the mental breakdown because of suffering in prison, the physical condition became worse and worse. But when he learned that the young Darney who was in love with his daughter was a descendant of the Marquis's brother, he did not prevent her from falling in love with him, but on the contrary, he accepted him tolerantly after Darney understood.
Lucie is the embodiment of fraternity, she has a loving heart for everyone around her, and she is gentle and friendly with everyone. Because of his love for his father, he came from London to Paris to pick up his father and bring him home. Even when she saw her father with a nervous breakdown, she comforted his father, and she warmed his wounded heart and body with love, and under her careful care, his father's sanity returned to normal. After her husband went to prison, she left her peaceful and warm home without hesitation and came to Paris, which was full of dangers, and did her best to save her husband.
Darney is benevolent. As a descendant of the Marquis, he was deeply disgusted by the crimes of his family, ashamed of the innocent people who had been harmed by his own family, and he was disgusted by the oppression of the poor and the poor by the aristocratic class. Therefore, he gave up his family property and title without hesitation, and came to London to become a French teacher. Even later, Darneygained Manet's tolerance and affirmation with his sincerity and kindness, and eventually lived happily with Lucie. After the outbreak of the Revolution, Darneyreturned to Paris for his benevolence to rescue his servants. Although he was imprisoned because of his family background, his biggest fear was the safety of his wife, daughter and father-in-law.
The lawyer Carton is benevolent. Although he doesn't think he cares about anyone in this world, Lucie's appearance gives him the courage to live, breaks his bad habits for many years, and is full of hope for the future. He fell in love with the beautiful and kind Lucie, but felt that he was not qualified to love her, so he buried his love for Lucie in his heart. After Lucie married Darnai, he offered Darney and Luciehis most sincere wishes on the road. He loves Lucie deeply, but doesn't ask for anything in return, just wants Lucie to remember him. After Darney goes to jail, Carton takes the guillotine in place of Darney, fulfilling his promise of love for Luciewith blood and life.
The maid Miss Pross is benevolent. For more than a decade, Miss Pross took care of Lucie as if she were her own daughter, not even married, but always by Lucie's side. After Lucie took her father back, she saw Lucie's closeness to her father, and although she was slightly jealous, she was still happy that Lucie could be reunited with her father. Even, when Mrs. Defargefer wants to kill Lucie and her children, Miss Pross will spare her life and quarrel with Mrs. Devarfa, she grabs the other party's weapon and kills the cruel Mrs. Devafa, regardless of her own safety to protect Lucie from escaping.
The opposite of these people was Mrs. Defarge. Mrs. Devarzh is a socially inferior woman with a tragic fate, and her experience is sympathetic, but in the author's writing, this tragic figure who suffered major changes in her family during her childhood is not a positive image, but a terrible, fierce and ruthless person. Mrs. Defarge was the sister of the girl who had been persecuted by the Marquis brothers, and after her relatives had been persecuted to death by the Marquis brothers, she gradually became stronger, and she lived for revenge. She had been patient, waiting for an opportunity for revenge. At the beginning of the revolution, she became a feared female leader and gradually began her own plans for revenge. After capturing the prison, she cut off the head of the warden. But according to Manette's recollection, the warden wasn't really bad. Blinded by hatred, Mrs. Defarge retaliated against the perpetrators with the same atrocities, killing many innocents indiscriminately. She was determined to cut the marquis's house to the roots. She found Darney. Ignoring her husband's pleas, the innocent Darney was brought to court, which sentenced Darney to death. Even killing Darney did not stop. She was going to kill Lucie and her children again. In the book, the author uses a lot of ink to depict the cruelty of Mrs. Defarge and the perverted psychology of hurting the innocent for revenge, she is gloomy, weaving wool day after day, and even cold enough that the road builders who deliver letters will tremble when they see her. Through her reflection of brutal violence and revenge, the author expresses his humanitarian ideas against violence with a vivid ending.
Love will eventually resist violence, because love is eternal. But hate does not, and people full of hatred will eventually destroy themselves while destroying others. This is the case with Mrs. Defarge, who should have lived her life happily and happily, but because of her tragic childhood experience, she grew hatred, and after killing her enemies, she still wanted to hurt innocent people and eventually died under her own gun. At the end of the eighteenth century, France was full of hatred, and the people oppressed by the aristocratic class bravely resisted because of hatred, hoping to create an equal and free society, but gradually, their growing hatred outlawed the original intention, and the flame of revenge gradually hurt the innocent. Social order became chaotic, penal systems were abused, people who dared to resist, and the pursuit of fairness began to become unfair. Their hatred ultimately failed to fulfill their wishes.Eighteen years ago, the Marquis of Noble threw Manette into the Bastille out of hatred, leaving the law a dead letter and even a tool to serve himself. Eighteen years later, in revenge, Mrs. Defarge took the innocent Charles Darney to court, sentencing him to death, and even intended to kill Lucie and her daughter. The aristocrats of the past watched the killing, and today's rebellious people also take pleasure in watching the killing. When the victim becomes the abuser, what should we use to face the world? The author has actually given the answer in the book: fraternity. But fraternity does not mean forgiving everything, but to punish the bad guys while being tolerant of the innocent people around them.
Two hundred years later, I hope that living in this generation, we can create a new century of true equality, freedom and fraternity. Carton's death, like a feather gently falling to the surface of the water, has no splash, but there are ripples, reminding people that true freedom and equality cannot be established with hatred. One day, the world will be better, like the world Carton saw before he died, which is not the illusion of heaven; One day, it will be our world.
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