Wednesday, February 15, 2012

A Tale of Two Cities Video Notes

  • There was a third city; it was in Manchester.
  • Dicken´s in the preface says that he has suffered what he wrote about.
  • He feel in love with Ellen, and divorced his wife the following year.
  • Ellen was Lucie in A Tale of Two Cities.
  • In May of 1858, seperated from his wife Catherine.
  • In Nov. established his new journal and later in April established another one.
  • In April 30th of 1859 he wrote chapters 1 thorugh 3 of his novel. 
  • London became to be an inspiration to Dicken´s.
  • In 1844 he visited Paris and made a great impression towards him.
  • Paris was of some kind of 900 thousand people at the time.
  • At the end of the novel, he reminds readers about the Puritan landscape.
  • Dicken´s visited Paris about 15 times during 1844 to 1868.
  • A Tale of Two Cities was one of to historical novels that Dickens wrote.
  • The novel takes place during the French Revolution and flips back and fourth to England and France.
  • Dicken´s was not a revolutionary.
  • Doctor Manette is supposed to be recalled to life in the novel.

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