A_Tale_of_Two_Cities

A Tale of Two Cities Discuss how the first six chapters of A Tale of Two Cities paints a picture of the historical period. Charles Dickens Is famous for his descriptive style of writing, and this trademark is not left out in A Tale of Two Cities. Each chapter portrays another piece of the everyday lives of people in England and France in the year 1775. This is extremely important because without these vivid Dickensian descriptions the reader could easily project his or her current environment into the setting of the book. Dickens easily portrays the horrible lifestyle that the people of France have become accustomed to as something they must cope with. Though he frequently foreshadows a revolution when the people attempt to rise out of their filth. Throughout the first sex chapters of the book there are many small excerpts such as the one at the beginning of chapter five entitled the Wine Shop. A wine cask breaks and the people lap up the wine from the ground, the gutters, and the puddles, but what the reader comes to realize is that they are drinking from mud puddles and eating mud tale, two, cities, people, wine, dickens, reader, two, poverty, out, first, chapters, chapter, six, shop, setting, puddles, portrays, period, mud, lives, left, historical, further, france, filth, everyday, easily, drinking, describes, book, another, along, yet, year, writing, writes