Tale Of Two Cities Similarities

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Tale of Two Cities: Similarities Between Book and Novel A novel written by Charles Dickens in 1985 was an outstanding novel in which was basically about the craziness that was going on in France and England from the start of the year 1775. The novel focused on people 's lives like Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton, Dr. Manette, Jerry Cruncher, Madame Defarge, Mrs. Pross, and many more. In their lives the world was very corrupt, many people were dying, and were poor. In looking also at the Masterpiece Theater Film version, produced in 1989, there were many similarities between the novel and the film in which they both displayed the same material. Three similarities between the two can be found in the incident at the wine shop, the “fishing” scene with Jerry Cruncher and his son, and court scene with Charles Darnay. One way in which the novel and the film are similar in displaying the wine scene is by showing that the Peasants were thirsty and it looked like the wine that they were drinking was

The last way in which the novel and film are similar is by the way they both display the court scene with Charles Darnay. In this scene Charles Darnay is supposed to get sentenced to death for high treason but gets away with it because him and Sydney Carton look alike. A quote said by Dickens explains just that in which it says,” Something especially reckless in his demeanour not only gave him a disreputable look, but so diminished the strong resemblance he undoubtedly bore to the prisoner (which his momentary earnestness, when they were compared together, had strengthened), that many of the lockers-on,taking note of him now, said to one another they would hardly have thought the two were so alike”(92). In this quote it shows the reason in which Darnay got away, because he looked so similar to Carton that he could be innocent. Since they could not tell who did it because of the strong comparison between the two both of them got away without