Inhumanity In A Tale Of Two Cities

Man’s Inhumanity Toward his Fellow Man During the French Revolution, there is pronounced inhumanity and cruelty between fellow men and women. Death, unfair trials, and other types of violence are common. Aristocrats have to leave France with a punishment of death waiting for them if they return, and the queen and king are beheaded. Furthermore, man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man is a strong idea in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This idea shows up throughout the novel in many characters and their actions. Man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man is a prevalent theme in A Tale of Two Cities as shown in the characters of Madame Defarge, Monseigneur the Marquis, and French and English nobles. Madame Defarge takes brutal actions during

They will do anything to the peasants to keep up their lavish lifestyles. They will even send an innocent man to prison for 18 years, which is what happens to Dr. Manette. Mr. Lorry tells Lucie this when he dictates that, “…if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water, there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time…” (17). While Mr. Lorry explains to Lucie the news of her father’s release from prison, he tells Lucie the reason her father was in prison: blank forms of consignment. Lucie previously believes Dr. Manette to be dead because that is what her mother tells her before dying. Lucie’s mother does not want Lucie to live doubting whether her father is dead or alive because that is the way Lucie’s mother lives. To continue, Dr. Manette is sent to prison without a trial by Charles Darnay’s father and his father’s twin after he writes a letter to the Minister describing his experience at the home of the two brothers. At their home, he treats a young woman who is in shock of her husband’s death, is raped, and is noticeably pregnant. The woman’s husband is worked to death by the two brothers in order for the younger brother to have the woman. Dr. Manette also treats a young man who died of a sword wound from the younger brother. They fight over the young man’s sister. The Minister shows the brothers the letter, and they are angry. As a result, they arrest Dr. Manette and send him to prison through blank forms of consignment even though the doctor did the right thing. Dr. Manette has to then endure 18 years of prison which harm him physically and mentally all because of two brothers’ vicious actions. Second, Dickens uses the nobles to personify the pain of the peasants. This is also