[原创]Comparative Study of Carton And Darnay in

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Dickens published his twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities, in his own literary journal called All the Year Round in weekly installments from April to November of 1852. He got the germ of the idea for the novel from a play by Wilkie Collins called The Frozen Deep, in which he played the self-sacrificing hero. Dickens decided to transplant the emotive issue of self-sacrifice onto the time period of the French Revolution, and he modeled Sydney Carton after Collins's hero. To ensure that his novel would be as historically accurate as possible, Dickens pored over his friend Thomas Carlyle's classic history of the French Revolution.

A Tale of Two Cities is in part a historical novel, which sets it apart from Dickens's other work. Although Barnaby Rudge deals with the Gordon Riots in England, it discusses them only peripherally. In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens narrates aspects of a major historical event, the French Revolution. Because Dickens focuses on the effect of political upheaval more than on character development and wit, A Tale of Two Cities feels atypical among readers who know his other novels, and critics continue to debate its relative place in the English literary canon.

Key words: Carton  Darnay  Characteristics

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当今许多评论家对狄更斯的小说《双城记》更加关注的是她的政治色彩,评论《双城记》中当时法国大革命等历史现状的描述,他们研究书中人物形象也是侧重于政治色彩的分析,而我更欣赏狄更斯在此书中他笔下人物的思想,感情及体现的主题.,体会狄更斯笔下人物特色。《双城记》的主题是双重的,爱和死,爱只能在深渊的边缘上发展,死则成为最终得到拯救的唯一途径,所以我想通过查阅大量的书籍资料和老师的指导来剖析人物形象,体会狄更斯笔下人物的特色.

 在此篇论文中，我分析两个人物的形象主要是分别对两位男主人公进行深入分析，他们的故事,他们并非由自己原因造成却无法摆脱的严重的可怕的冲突.分析他们的性格形成原因，造成的结果及作者在书中怎样体现这些特点的，然后对比两位男主人公的相似点和不同点，从而更好地理解狄更斯写作特色。

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