It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

A Tale of Two Cities, a more difficult read for me, but unique in the same sense. To understand Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, you have to go to his personal life. He was pushed at an early age, while his parents went to prison (due to the laws) to go work in a factory type setting. He lost his family and was an eye witness to the terrible conditions of the prison. Dickens also lost his sister whom he idolized. In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens incorporates romanticism as well as intertwines it with the French Revolution, which is an overthrow of the government. he shows the executions and mob violence in his book numerous times, such as when a father's child was run over and killed by the carriage and Monsier had no remorse, just cruel emotions for the child being in the way. The government held ridiculous amounts of power and wealth while the people literally had nothing. The part in the story where the man has 4 people feed him chocolate depicts this scenario well. Power was more or less abused and people continued on grasping for more. Bloodshed was a big part of the revolution in Dickens' book as well. I feel death was added onto the slogan because people happily or without any second thought watched people have their heads sliced in the guillotine, because it was a normal everyday occurance. Death seemed, to me, the best option out of suffering from the government. my personal favorite part of the book was the wine ship, where the casket of wine shattered and people rushed to drink it as if they had won the lottery. This represents the bloodshed during the French Revolution as well as the desperation the starving people had. Though, like the revolution, the wine was cleaned up the stains remains as well as the scars of the pas. Weird to me that Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity were all apart of the slogan, but never represented from the government during the revolution. There were clear divides among the people of power and those who had nothing. In my eyes Dickens' portrays the revolution happening because there was literally nothing else for the people of France to loose if they didn't. They were starving, without money, the only thing that could happen was death, and that wasn't a big loss to them. The people of France had shown fraternity as they went to the prison and began executing those who had done wrong to them as well as free those who were wrongly convicted, but that resulted in chaos as well.