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A tale of two cities is a long historical novel written by Charles Dickens, an English writer, with the French Revolution as the background. The book tells about the corruption of the French aristocracy and the oppression of the people. The people's dissatisfaction with the aristocracy is growing day by day, and the social contradictions are intensifying, which eventually led to the outbreak of the revolution. However, in that dark period, there was still the brilliance of humanity, which expressed the author's praise and pursuit of humanism. In the story, Manette, a young Parisian doctor, is suddenly forced to make a visit by the brothers of the Marquis of Evremonde while walking. In the service of the Marquis, he witnessed the tragic death of a pair of brothers and sisters, and learned that the Marquis brothers killed their whole family for a moment of pleasure. He refused the bribes of the Marquis brothers and wrote a letter to report their crimes. However, the letter of accusation fell into the hands of the defendant. Dr Manette was also put in the Bastille prison and lived a dark life of isolation for 18 years. Manette's wife was very miserable. She decided not to let her youngest daughter Lucie know her father's misfortune, and planned to raise her in this way. Unfortunately, Manette's wife died two years later. Before she died, she entrusted her daughter to Lori, a banker. So Lucie was taken to London and brought up under the care of the kind-hearted maid Poulos. Eighteen years later, Dr. Manette was released, but he had lost his memory of the things around him and had mental problems. Later, his daughter Lucie took him to England and took good care of him. On the way, they also met Charles Darney, a young French man. Although he was the nephew of the Marquis of Evremonde, he hated the sins of the family, gave up the inheritance of the property and the aristocratic name, and moved to London to become a French teacher. After arriving in London, Darney was entangled in a lawsuit, and his lawyer helped him win the lawsuit. Sidney carton, the lawyer's assistant, looks very similar to Darney. Both of them love Lucie, but Lucie only admires Darney. After Lucie's careful care, Manette gradually got rid of the shadow of prison life. Later, the class contradiction between the nobles and the ordinary people became increasingly fierce, and finally, the French Revolution broke out in 1789. The people of Paris captured the Bastille and sent the nobles to the guillotine. In order to rescue the housekeeper, Darney returned to Paris from London, but was arrested and imprisoned. Dr Manette and Lucie hurried to Paris. They made continuous efforts to save Darney, and finally got the promise that Darney would not be executed. However, people found in the Bastille prison that Dr Manette had written about how he was abducted and imprisoned, and the curse on the Marquis family and its descendants, so the court sentenced Darney to death. At this time, carton also came to Paris. He took advantage of his resemblance to Darney to transport the anesthetized Darney out of his cell, while he waited for the death penalty in his cell, because he had promised Lucie that he would sacrifice himself to save the people she loved. Finally, after receiving Darney, Dr. Manette and Lucie escaped from France smoothly, while carton listened to people's voices against the nobles in the prison car, smiled, and then died calmly. This novel is full of Dickens' call for humanism, love and peace. Dr Manette is kind-hearted and honest. Even in the face of nobles and bribes, he still chooses to report crimes. Even though he had suffered 18 years in the Bastille prison and hated the harshness and cruelty of the nobles, he still chose to repay good for evil for the happiness of his daughter Lucie, and reconciled with Darney, the descendant of the Marquis of Evremonde, and reconciled with his own heart. He completed the love between the two young people, and chose to go to Paris to rescue Darney when he was in danger. Darney was also a man full of humanitarian spirit. Although he was a descendant of the aristocracy, he did not brutally oppress and exploit ordinary people. On the contrary, he hated the crimes of his family and the oppression of the aristocracy. He was very ashamed of the innocent people who were hurt by his family. Later, he resolutely gave up the inheritance right of property and the aristocratic name, and gained the tolerance and affirmation of Dr. Manette with his sincerity and kindness. After the outbreak of the great revolution, in order to rescue his housekeeper, he did not hesitate to return to Paris at the risk of being caught. Even if he was caught in prison because of his family background, he was most worried about the safety of his wife, daughter and father-in-law. Carton was moved by Lucie's brilliance, saw the hope of life again, and radiated his humanitarian light. Because of Lucie's appearance, he picked up the hope of life from a decadent, ruthless and cowardly person who hates the world. His love for Lucie is selfless. He loved Lucie deeply but didn't ask for return. He thought he was not qualified to love her, and he would die soon because of lung disease. So he buried his love for Lucie in the bottom of his heart, and sincerely wished Lucie and Darney that they could harvest real love, while he was willing to sacrifice himself at any time for Lucie and the people he loved. At the end of the story, he did that. He sacrificed himself, saved Darney, and fulfilled the love of his beloved. His human brilliance adds a romantic color to the novel, and also points out a direction for many readers to pursue love. In this novel, Madame Defarge is portrayed by the author as a terrible, cruel and ruthless person. She is a woman of the lower class with a tragic fate. Her relatives have been persecuted and killed by the Marquis of Evremonde one after another. She also grows up gradually, and has been patient, waiting for the opportunity of revenge. After the revolution broke out, she became a fearsome leader. The author focused on depicting her cruelty and her abnormal psychology of harming the innocent for revenge, expressed the author's humanism against violence, and advocated that class conflicts should be resolved through love. In addition to expressing his admiration for humanitarianism, Dickens also wanted to warn the world through the connection between Paris and London. The tale of two cities was created in the 1950s, when the British capitalist economy was developing rapidly. The rapid development of the capitalist economy and the increasing poverty of the working people brought all kinds of evils, which led to the intensification of class contradictions and made Britain on the verge of a great revolution. Dickens used Paris during the French Revolution to hint at London at that time, and gave warning to the British society at that time. If he only pursued economic development and ignored the living conditions of the lower class people, ignoring the increasing intensification of class contradictions, the violent revolution might eventually break out in Britain.