Tale of Two Cities Lecture Notes

• Sydney (Mike) Carten sacrifices himself for love so woman he loved can be with someone else, someone she loved deeply.
• Listen to Dr. William describe the character's journey, "grigen sword alley, to the monet house, to the perisian locations, trans, busses, and owls go hooting, railway station, cafe, and a few haris policemen stood." Also the fact that he speaks in a british accent give me the feeling that he is describing Harry Potter going through Galagon alley.
• Dickens shows horrors of revolutionary war
• timeline of movie 1757-1764 
• Dickens as a youth grew up with the revolutionary wars around him, but he hated revolution bc it was violent
• Worsening poverty gave rise to fears that revolution might happen in france
• Novel warning of possible revolution
• Tale of Two Cities was released in a serial, basically segments of it were released weekly/monthly.
• Dicken builds up suspense, protagonist goes on paths, hear footsteps, and choose adventure
• Lucie was possibly created after his wife, descriptions resemble her, a wife who left him
• for ten minutes, he reads from the book
• Sydney Carten-put himself in place of charles daney, sacrifices himself for love.... Doctor reads passages from book. 
• Sydney in last moments reminices of the life he had, and the future life of his family. Sydney thinks that in the future, his wife will cry for him bc he sacrificed himself for her
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