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What is Dickens Attitude Towards The French Revolution as Depicted in "A Tale of Two Cities"

The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. During this period French citizens razed and redesigned their country’s political landscape uprooting centuries old institutions such as absolute monarchy and the feudal system. The famous slogan of the French Revolution was ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’.

Dickens uses the French revolution as the background to his novel ‘A tale of Two Cities’. The novel is set in England and France in 1775. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes. In England the public worries over religious prophecies popular paranormal phenomena in the form of ‘the Cock-lane ghost’ and the messages that a colony of British subjects in America has se3nt to king George III. France on the other hand witnesses excessive spending and extreme violence a trend that anticipates the erection of the guillotine. In both countries the poor were exploited by the rich.

In the novel, Dickens points out the causes of the revolution through the character of the Marquis who is very cruel. He imposes heavy taxes on the poor villagers who don’t have the money to buy food or care for their children because they are sending all of their money to the Marquis. He has no pity for the poor. While returning from Monseigneur’s party his carriage runs over a small child at Saint Antoine. When the father of the child Gaspard charges at the carriage he looks at him with disgust and gives him a gold coin to pay for his dead child. Dickens sets up the Marquis as a representative of the French aristocracy and a direct cause of the imminent revolution.

Dickens does not support revolution. In the novel he has pointed out the violence of the revolution through the fall of the Bastile and the killing of the governor. The ghastly aspect of the bloody revolution is hinted at by the hanging of the old Foulon and his son-in-law by the angry mob. Another aspect is found in the burning of the chateau the home of the Marquis. The violent aspect of the Revolution is further stressed in the frightening description of the sharpening of the weapons by the revolutionaries on the grindstone the terrible account of the dancing of the Carmagnole the working of La Guillotine and the sentencing to death of such harmless person as the poor seamstress.

At the end of the novelafter the execution of Carton, Dickens comments on the horror and meaninglessness of the revolution. He states that revolution is bound to happen whenever man is crushed oppressed and exploited by the rich. The aristocrats sow the seeds of the poor return evil for evil. Being tortured and exploited by the rich the poor are compelled to persecute the aristocracy and other enemies of the revolution with equal brutality. Through the picture of French revolution Dickens seems to be warning England that poverty and suffering in England can also to a revolution like the one in France.

“Jane Eyre" is an Anti-romantic Novel with a Romantic Ending.

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The romantic novel is a literary genre which places primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people and must have an ‘emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending’. ‘Jane Eyre’ can be termed a romantic novel because of Jane’s deep attachment to Mr. Rochester. But Mr. Rochester is not a handsome romantic hero and Jane Eyre is not a pretty girl. There is a great disparity of their age- while Jane is twenty years old Mr. Rochester is almost forty.

“Jane Eyre" is an Anti-romantic Novel with a Romantic Endin

The character of Jane isn’t the traditional heroine of the time. In many romantic novels of the Victorian era the heroine was beautiful. Jane is described by Charlotte as ‘simple and plain’. She also differs from the traditional heroine in her strength as a woman. Charlotte created a woman character that was equal to the male character. Jane is not equal in status or class but in emotional strength and maturity. This went against society’s beliefs of the time because Victorians traditionally believed that women were not capable of strong emotions.

Rochester is the husband of Bertha mason. As Bertha is insane he cannot divorce her. He takes several mistresses one after another but fails to establish any meaningful relationship with them. Then he falls in love with Jane and wants to marry her. When their marriage is to be solemnized at the church Mr. mason came to the church and accused Mr. Rochester of already being married. Mr. Rochester confessed and their marriage is stopped . Mr. Rochester then offers Jane to leave England with him for the south of France where they will live together as husband and wife. But Jane turns down the proposal because she does not want to be his mistress.

Jane leaves thornfield and begins to live with the Rivers. St. John who is much younger than Rochester urges her again and again to be got married to him. She refuses the proposal because she knows that she does not love him nor he does love her. Mr. Rochester offers her real love. She return to him and finds that he has lost his left hand and went blind while rescuing his insane wife Bertha. She marries him and takes the dominating partner. Before the marriage Jane was always maintained a subservient position to Mr. Rochester. However with the inheritance from her uncle Jane is now an independent woman and can take charge of her own destiny and even the destiny of her husband. As Mr. Rochester has lost his eyesight he becomes vulnerable and dependent on Jane. He can no longer maintain his former position as the superior male. However this inequality is resolved when Mr. Rochester regains the use of one of his eyes. Jane and Mr. Rochester are finally able to support a relationship of mutual respect and quality. Jane finds true happiness in marriage. One becomes the very life of the other. No woman is ever nearer to her husband than Jane is. She is the bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. She bestows all her confidence on him and all his confidence is devoted to her.

Thus Jane and Rochester no longer remain separate identity. They have merged sharing one heart each possessing the ‘bone’ and ‘flesh’ of other.

Discuss the role of fate in Hardy’s Tees

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Hardy’s philosophy is marked with a strong note of fatalism. In his novels characters are helpless creatures and mere puppets in the hands of fate. They cannot enjoy free will. In the case of tees every incident in her life seems to take place as if determined by some unseen indifferent power which takes a malicious delight in her sorrows and sufferings.

It is fate which throws Tees into the trap of unprincipled Alec. When the family horse prince is killed in an accident the family faces a problem of livelihood. Tees is sent of d’Urbervilles to look for work. She meets Alec for the first time and at the sight of her his lust for her to do something for the family. Tees returns home and the next day a letter comes from Alec offering her a job on his mother’s behalf. Much against her will, Tees accepts the job to save her family from economic crisis. But Alec who is very clever young man manages to satisfy his lust for her in the wood when she is exhausted and asleep. When she ends up destitute and pregnant the local villagers chalk her troubles up to fate: as Tees’s own people down in their retreats never tire of saying ‘it was to be’.

In Hardy’s novel fate sometimes takes the form of Love. Fate is acting upon her when Tees is thrown into the company of Angel at Talbothays dairy. She falls in love with Angel and she loves him with all the warmth of her emotional nature. She worships him though she does not want to marry him. She feels that she cannot marry Angel because of the implications of her past indiscretions. She is torn up about her past with Alec d’Urerville and feels ashamed soiled and simply not good enough for Angel. As Angel is keeps pressing her she promises to tell him all her reasons and all her history. She makes five efforts to do so but fails. Fate reaches its climax when her written confession slips under Angel’s carpet instead of reaching his hands.

Fate also works against her when she reveals her past to Angel. After their marriage Angel tells her of his forty eight hours dissipation with a woman in London and asks her forgiveness. She forgives him to forgive her. But Angel is devastated by Tees’s confession of her seduction and the subsequent birth of her son and says, ‘o Tees, forgiveness does not apply to thy apply to thy case!’ So he deserts her and leaves for Brazil.

After Angel leaves and she is forced to work digging turnips at Flintcomb Ash in desperation she seeks out Angel’s parents for relief. During this fateful trip she meets angel’s brothers and overhears them mocking her husband for marrying beneath him: ‘Ah! Poor Angel, poor Angel!.... throwing himself away upon a dairymaid’. She feels forced to leave without seeing his parents who could have helped her avoid the fate that lay just ahead.

Indeed it is at this juncture when she once more meets the ‘converted’ Alec in the barn preaching. Had fate not intervened she would have been able to wait patiently for Angel’s return and avoided murdering Alec and her subsequent early death.

Discuss "Jane Eyre" as a Gothic Novel

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Gothic novel is a type of romance or fiction the setting of which was medieval and often a gloomy castle full of dungeons and underground passages. These kinds of novels replete with ghosts, mysterious disappearance and other sensational and supernatural occurrences and violent incidents. Jane Eyre uses may forms of the Gothic genre in order to create emotion and get an audience reaction. The most common Gothic form Bronte uses is Jane’s descriptions of the red room, Thornfield Hall the use of supernatural, mysteries, suspense, a ghostly atmosphere, a setting in a castle, the appearances of a fortune-teller etc.

Gothic paraphernalia is first shown in the novel in the form of the red room. It is the frightening chamber in which Mr. Reed died. It is a spare bedroom furnished with red curtains, red carpet, red tablecloth, reddish wood furniture. It’s cold, quiet and lonely. When Jane is locked in the room she catches a glimpse of her ghastly figure in the mirror and shocked by her meager presence. Suddenly she is struck with the impression that her uncle Reed’s ghost is in the room and she imagines that he has come to take revenge on his wife for breaking her promise. Jane cries out in terror.

In the novel there are allusions to supernatural occurrences such as in the red room scene when Jane senses the ghost of her uncle her ears fill with sound which she said she ‘deemed the rushing of wings, something seemed near me..’ Mr. Rochester’s telepathic communication to Jane towards the end of the novel is also a supernatural phenomenon. All these give a lack of realism and a feeling of the supernatural contributing to the Gothic genre.

Another example of the use of Gothic element is the description of Thornfield Hall. The idea of it being an ancestral home gives it a Gothic feel. The decoration is dark, dated and labored with secrets and memories of the past creating an archaic and enigmatic vision of a Gothic castle image. It is a Gothic castle is reinforced by the strange laugh from the attic door. Later in her description of the house Jane comments on the passages and the house having trap doors ‘like a corridor in some of Bluebeard’s castle’.

‘Jane Eyre’ has been called a new type of Gothic novel because of Charlotte’s use of poetic symbolism. In the garden of Thornfield there is chestnut tree which is struck by lightning. Bronte here indicates that the chestnut three could have powers that foreshadow the separation of Rochester and Jane that followed the next day and the disaster and danger for the couple that lay ahead of them almost as if nature is predicting human fate.

The appearance of the fortune teller gives the novel a sense of the supernatural which is particularly Gothic. Bronte also uses the Gothic form death throughout the novel. the predominant example is the death of Helen Burns Jane’s friend at Lowood. Jane is portrayed as the damsel in distress in parts of the novel which is a Gothic form but also adds a fairy tale feel. For example when Jane flees John Rivers finds her and gives her a place to rest. ‘Jane Eyre’ combines conventions of Gothic literature and romanticism. Like most romantic novels initially the two protagonists hide their feelings and cannot be together.

Would you call Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities” a historical novel?

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A historical novel deals with historical events. "A Tale of Two Cities" is a historical novel in the sense that it focuses on the period before and during the French Revolution. In the novel Dickens gives the picture of England and of France during the 1780s.

Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities” a historical novel

The novel takes place in England and France in 1775. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes. In England the public worries over religious prophecies popular paranormal phenomena in the form of ‘the cock-lane ghost,’ and the messages that a colony of British subjects in America has sent to king George III. France on the other hand witnesses excessive spending and extreme violence a trend that anticipates the erection of the guillotine. In both countries the poor were exploited by the rich. While there was light and hope for the aristocracy there was darkness and despair for the insolvent. So it was best time for the rich while the worst of time for the poor.

The marquis is very cruel. He imposes heavy taxes on the poor villagers who don’t have the money to buy food or care for their children because they’re sending all of their money to the Marquis. He has no pity for the poor. While returning from Monseigneur’s party his carriage runs over a small child at Saint Antoine. When the father of the child Gaspard charges at the carriage he looks at him with disgust and gives him a gold coin to pay for his dead child. At last he is killed by Gaspard. Dickens sets up the Marquis as a representative of the French aristocracy and a direct cause of the imminent revolution.

The fall of the Bastille is one of the historical events in the novel. the poor were oppressed by aristocrats. People who raised a voice against the monarchy of France were imprisoned in the Bastile. So people attacked the Bastille first of all. The storming was led by Monsieur Defarge and his wife Madame Defarge. Being armed with every kind of weapons the revolutionaries attacked the Bastille on 14 July, 1789. The crowd seized the governor of the Bastille and brought him to the Defarges. The governor dropped down dead under the rain of stabs and blows from the crowd. Madame Defarge then put her foot on the neck of the governor and cut off his head with her knife. They released seven prisoners and beheaded seven guards and hoisted their heads onto pikes.

The ghastly aspect of the bloody revolution is hinted at by the hanging of the old Foulon and his son-in-law by the angry mob. Another aspect is found in the burning of the chateau, the home of the Marquis. The violent aspect of the revolution is further stressed in the frightening description of the sharpening of the weapons by the revolutionaries on the grindstone the terrible account of the dancing of the Carmagnole the working of La Guillotine and the sentencing to death of such harmless person as the poor seamstress.

However Dickens is not a historian. In A Tale of Two Cities he interweaves personal lives with the French Revolution. Through the treatment of the French Revolution he has tried to show that violence leads to violence and hatred is the reward of hatred.

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ideas here for taking your fiction up a level or two, captivating readers, and gaining fans. Both published and aspiring authors of fast-paced, popular fiction will find these tips indispensable for plotting a riveting story and creating compelling characters, then writing a gripping opening and designing suspenseful scenes. And the reader-friendly format makes it easy to zoom in on specific advice, with examples, for picking up the pace, ramping up the tension and intrigue, revising for power, and creating a page-turner that sells.

Jodie Renner is a freelance fiction editor and the award-winning author of three craft-of-writing guides in her series An Editor’s Guide to Writing Compelling Fiction: Captivate Your Readers, Fire up Your Fiction,and Writing a Killer Thriller. She has also published two clickable time-saving e-resources to date: Quick Clicks: Spelling Listand Quick Clicks: Word Usage. Jodie recently organized and edited a BC-wide anthology of stories and poetry for Doctors Without Borders, called Voices from the Valleys, and is working on a second anthology, Childhood Regained, to help reduce child labor in Asia. You can find Jodie at www.JodieRenner.com, www.JodieRennerEditing.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Click HERE to sign up for Jodie’s occasional newsletter.

Actress, @ Sonam Kapoor - Vogue India, January 2016

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Actress, @ Sonam Kapoor - Vogue India, January 2016

Sonam Kapoor
Sonam Kapoor is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films and is the daughter of actor Anil Kapoor. One of the highest-paid actresses and most popular celebrities in India, Kapoor has been nominated for three Filmfare Awards and has won two Stardust Awards. (Wikipedia) More at YouTube (Source)

Singer, @ Taylor Swift - at Omnia Nightclub in Las Vegas

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Singer, @ Taylor Swift - at Omnia Nightclub in Las Vegas

Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 marked the start of her career as a country music singer. Her third single, "Our Song," made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. (Wikipedia) More at YouTube (Source)

Singer, @ Christina Milian - at Pitbull's New Year's Eve party in Miami

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Singer, @ Christina Milian - at Pitbull's New Year's Eve party in Miami

Christina Milian
Christine Flores, better known as Christina Milian, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. At the age of 19, Milian signed a contract with Def Jam. In 2001, Milian released her self-titled debut album, which featured the singles "AM to PM" and "When You Look at Me"; "AM to PM" charted with in the Top 40 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and both peaked in the top three on the UK Singles Chart. In 2004, Milian released her second studio album It's About Time, which provided her first major U.S. hit, "Dip It Low", which reached number five on the U.S. Billboard chart. "Whatever U Want" was released as the album's second single. Both singles charted within the Top 10 of the UK chart. (Wikipedia) More at YouTube (Source)

Fashion Model, @ Abbey Clancy - at a New Year's party in Dubai

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Fashion Model, @ Abbey Clancy - at a New Year's party in Dubai

Abbey Clancy Abigail Marie "Abbey" Crouch is a British lingerie and catwalk model and television presenter. She is married to footballer Peter Crouch, was the runner-up of Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 and won series 11 of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013. (Wikipedia) More at YouTube (Source)

Actress, Singer, Model, @ Bella Thorne - out in Los Angeles

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Actress, Singer, Model, @ Bella Thorne - out in Los Angeles

Bella Thorne
Annabella Avery "Bella" Thorne is an American actress, singer, and model. She is best known for her roles as Ruthy Spivey in the TV series My Own Worst Enemy, Tancy Henrickson in the fourth season of Big Love, and CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up. She also appeared as Hilary/"Larry" in Blended and as Celia in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. In 2015, she played Madison in The Duff and Amanda in Perfect High. Glamour magazine has said that Thorne is considered a beauty icon. (Wikipedia) More at YouTube (Source)

Actress, Model, @ Kate Beckinsale - New Year's Eve party in Hollywood

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Actress, Model, @ Kate Beckinsale - New Year's Eve party in Hollywood

Kate Beckinsale
Kathrin Romary "Kate" Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at Oxford University. She then appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland, Cold Comfort Farm, Emma, and The Golden Bowl, in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco and Brokedown Palace, she had a break-out year in 2001 with starring roles in the war film Pearl Harbor and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She built on this success with appearances in the biopic The Aviator and the comedy Click. (Wikipedia) More at YouTube (Source)

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