双城记 a tale of two cities 简介

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• A young French noble. His evil-minded uncle killed two innocent people. He met Lucie at a harbor and fell in love with her. Finally he became Lucie’s husband.
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• The year was late 1775, Lucie Manette, a 17year-old lady, and a rich banker Jarvis Lorry traveled from London to Paris to find Lucie’s father Doctor Alexandre Manette, who had been put into the prison for 18 years. Mr. Lorry and Lucie found Dr. Manette at his former servant Defarge’s house. Lucie took her father back to England at that night. At the harbor they met a handsome French noble, Charles Darnay.
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• A vengeful female revolutionary. She led the French Revoluntion in Paris. Her pregnant sister was killed by Charles’ uncle, so she put Charles into the prison when he went to Paris.
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• In order to save his steward, Charles went back to Paris, but he was put into the prison as soon as he arrived and was sentenced to death. Hearing of this, Dr. Manette and Lucie went to Paris and joined Mr. Lorry. Knowing Charles’ fate, Carton arrived in Paris secretly. He entered Charles' cell, changed clothes with him, druged him, and had Charles taken out of the prison. Instead of Charles, Carton went to the guillotine bravely because he knew that he saved the woman he loved and her family.
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• So the Revolution broke out. But People who once lived on the bottom of class took the charge now and their heart had been full of evil. The only thing they wanted to do was to revenge. And these socalled "patriots" would like to see more and more innocent prisoners going to the guillotine and that's their joy. • As the novel wrote,"In everything they did were merciless,for they had been hardened in the fires of suffering and the touch of pity could make no mark on them".
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• The daughter of Dr. Manette. She was an beautiful and perfect young lady, who was loved by both Carton and Charles Darnay (Lucie married to Charles finally) . She was the "thread" of this novel because she tied almost every character together.
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• Five years later, Mr. Lorry was called as a witness for the trial of Charles Darnay, who was accused of treason. Dr. Manette and Lucie also went to the trial as witnesses. At first, Charles was sentenced to death. However, Charles’ attorney, pointed out that his assistant Carton and Charles looked alike enough to be doubles, so the court acquited Charles.
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Charles Dickens
Nationality: Date of Birth and Death: Representa tive works: United Kingdom
1812.2.7~1870.6.9
The Pickwick Papers , Oliver Twist , Tale of Two Cities , Great Expectations and so on.
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• After the trial, both Charles and Carton fell in love with Lucie. Charles’ gentleness and kindness attracted Lucie, so finally she got married to Charles. • Meanwhile, the situation in France growed worse. Charles’ cruel and unfeeling uncle, Marquis St. Evrémonde, was murdered in his bed after running down a child with his carriage in the Paris streets. The French Revolution broke out.
A Tale of Two Cities
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• A quick-minded but depressed English lawyer and alcoholic. He and Charles looked like twins. And he saved Charles when Charles was accused of treason. To fulfill his promise to Lucie, at the end of the novel he redeemed his own life to save the life of Charles’.
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Lucie Manette
Therese Defarge
Sydney Carton
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Charles Darnay
Dr. Alexandr Manette
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• The story is set in London and Paris at the ti me of the great French Revolution. Before the revolution, the King of the France treated his people cruelly. There were no justice, no equality and no fairness. Just as what happened to Dr Manette, he wrote to the Minister to show the crime w hat Charles’ uncle had done,resulting in himself being ar rested and sent to the prison Bastille withou t any reason.
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• Lucie's father. He was a doctor and was kept in a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years. • When Charles’ uncle killed two people, he was asked to have a look at them. He saw those two people died, so he hated Charles’ family very much.