So as you know, I'm re-reading/reviewing Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. What was the reason he was writing this story for? Who, why, when, where?
Well, if I had to take a wild guess, I think Dickens was writing to the people of England, and he was using Darnay as his own voice. Charles Darnay was an ex-aristocrat who was imprisoned wrongly by the government, and he despised the way England was running things. Maybe Dickens was trying to hint at the unrest going on in England at the time, so that they avoid the unnecessary violence that happened during the French Revolution. So I believe Darnay was supposed to be a version of himself. At the same time, maybe Sydney Carton was the ugly version of himself. The side that he didn't like, but embraced. Sydney's infatuation with Darnay's wife could also have been a mirror of some love relationship going on in Dickens' own life.
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