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Evil Wins In Charles Dicken's A Tale Of Two Cities

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Evil never wins
"In the end, love wins. When a person dies, love isn 't turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us." - J. K. Rowling. The opening lines of the novel show that good and evil stand equally matched in their struggle. Evil overcomes good when the aristocrats overpower the 3rd estate, causing hunger and other struggles. This causes the 3rd estate to revolt and there is a fight between good and evil. While it seemed like evil could dominate the good, positive forces triumph at the end of Charles Dicken 's A Tale of Two Cities because Darnay, Lucie, and Carton all arrive finally at happiness.
First, positive forces triumph at the end because Charles Darnay ends up happy. Darnay was sentenced to die by the guillotine but is freed from his execution. When he was sitting in his cell waiting, he had lost hope and believed that “no …show more content…

Additionally Lucie ends up happy. Carton predicts a future where Lucie is pleased. He imagines a “child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winnings his way up in that path of life which once was mine” (Dickens 381). This can also be interpreted as Dicken 's telling us what will happen in the future. Since Darnay has been saved, she won 't have to suffer the pain of losing her husband. Lucie will be grateful to Carton and live her life remembering what he has done for her by naming her son after him. She gets to live happily with her family.
Finally the most important reason, Carton gets to be happy in death. Dying in place of Darnay has finally given Carton some meaning to his life. Carton thinks to himself about “the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy” (Dickens 381). Happiness has finally came to Carton. Even though he wasn 't happy in life, he will be happy in death.
There were many bad forces in the novel but good overcame it all. In the end all of our major characters were happy. No matter how hard it tries, evil can never dearest the power of love

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