Taking Control
of your Life
In a lifetime, life will drag us down to the deepest,
darkest, caverns, where the darkness suffocates any sign of hope or
light, but with hard work and dedication there will be a chance to
submerge into a new age of opportunity. This English historical
fictional novel has evolved English composition,
A Tale
Of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens demonstrates the birth of a
new, changed life. Some of the most successful people to ever live
have been re-born from losses of money, or moral. People like Bill
Gates, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, and many more have dropped out
of school, lost money, been rejected by their families and
companies only to rise and to crush the darkness with their hope.
Theres beauty in the
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Through the
book we can see how emotionally beat Carton is. He is a carton of
milk, but with no milk, and what is a carton of milk with no milk?
Nothing, Sydney Carton is a man of nothing. No desire, no hope, no
happiness. I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on
earth, and no man on earth cares for me. (2.4.70) Even though
Sydney Carton seems hopeless, he will see the pity people give him,
the smug looks, and will change his life around. After, seeing
Lucie Manette marry Charles Darnay, he decides to turn his life
around. Sydney becomes a man of more than just himself. Carton
visits Lucie and Charles Darnay to play with their kids and to
actually enjoy himself, before the only enjoyment he really had was
drinking which just made him feel worse. By the end of the book
Sydney Carton has overcome his depressed, alcoholic ways and
sacrificed his life for Darnay knowing Darnay will live a happy
life with his kids. Sydney Carton's last thoughts before his life
is sacrificed to save Charles Darnay: "It is a far, far better
thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better
rest that I go to than I have ever known." (374). Sydney Carton is
reborn in the hearts of those as a hero, and even Charles Darnay
names his next child after him
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During the time
period of when A Tale of Two Cities was published Dickens was
having a battle of depression in his life. He saw no hope with his
wife and had thought to have too many children to keep watch of. He
then in 1858 separated from his wife which was a year before
publishing A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens was able to transfer his
emotions and feelings into his piece A Tale of Two Cities. Sadly,
Dickens life continued to go downhill as his brother died a few
years later and other family members continue to die. In 1860
Charles tried burning his personal papers. Him separating from
his wife was something widely public, but what wasnt known was
that he had a mistress who was fairly younger than him. Dickens in
many of his writings gives characters who have lives of poverty,
enter through the gates of opportunity, but there is no happy,
romantic ending. In Great Expectations Pip grows to be a gentleman,
but ends up being alone with nobody to love him or give affection,
just like Dickens. His heart becomes a stone wall with three layers
of concrete to let no one in. During Charles Dickens' lifetime he
was at the top of life and at the bottom of his life, resurrecting
back from the darkest place to what seemed to be a golden age,
using characters Dr. Manette and Sydney
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