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Corruption Of Power In A Tale Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

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Power is something that can make an individual go crazy and risk everything for. In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, a corruption of power is shown. It is shown as the aristocrats, high-class French citizens, had great power and wealth of all the other citizens. The other, low-class citizens lived in poverty and were starving, having a poor quality of life. The inequality of power was an apparent theme throughout the novel as later on in the events of the novel, revolutionaries wanted freedom against their poor life, and wanted to have equal wealth with the high-class. Before this, the rich only got richer as the poor stayed poor. This is the theme I found most impacting immediately after reading the novel.

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