A Tale Of Two Cities

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In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses satire in a variety of ways to make a political and personal statement. Two ways that are the most prominent methods he uses are pathos and irony. He uses ironic metaphors and situational irony.With the depiction of a broken wine cask outside Defarge?s wine shop, and with his portrayal of the passing peasants? scrambling to lap up the spilling wine, Dickens creates a symbol of desperate quality of life and the people?s hunger, ?All the people within reach has suspended their business, or their idlene ...view middle of the document...

Pathos is just one of the ways Dickens uses satire in A Tale of Two Cities.The second way Dickens uses satire is by the use of Irony. One of the most obvious ironic metaphors is Madame Defarge?s knitting. It is very symbolic. In her stitching she stitches a registry of all those condemned to die in the name of a new republic. Many peasants fear Madame Defarge. Madame Defrage is described as dark and wicked, this is obvious when Dickens says she passed, ?Like a shadow over the white road? (210). Through Madame Defarge, Dickens can make his own personal statement that he does not agree with vengeance. He does this by describing Madame Defarge the way he does. He shows his view of the revolution in the final chapter and notes the slope down from the oppressed to the oppressor: ?Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surly yield the same fruit according to its kind? (365). Dickens tells the reader that he is against oppression but is also against the peasants fighting with violence.In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses as variety of devices to satirize the life of that time and the revolution. Two ways he does this is through pathos and irony. By using these devices he can make a political and personal statement.

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