Tale of Two Cities

Love and Hate in The Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens places A Tale of Two Cities in the two great cities of London and Paris. As the reader walks into this novel the year is 1775 and the French Revolution is brewing between the cities. Dickens uses this time period and certain characters to display the type of feelings that had been concurrent during this time. Dickens also uses the images of light and darkness …

…the darkness of the room. In this room Mr. Lorry and Miss Manette discuss her father who seems to have lost his light as well. When the father and daughter are restored to each other the father has been recalled to life by his "gentle angel". Lucie has shed a great light on her father in his dark cell with her "golden hairs" and when he "turned her full to the light." (Book 1Ch.6,52-53)