Dickens Meets Lecture.

In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the story begins with a brief introduction to the current period of time that the countries are set in. With the famous first lines being, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...," the reader gets a feel for how contradictory everything was at the present time. The narration of the novel throughout the first ten or so pages reflects the period in which it was based on: gloomy, ominous, dark. The relation of the tone to Dickens is the fact that he grew up in very poor circumstances. He had an understanding from a very early age how dense the world was and how evil it could be to some people.

The intro flows along into the story which begins in the first setting of London, England. The darkness of the cold night, again, reflects the Gothic viewpoint on the outlook of the situation in the current city. The characters of Lorry and Lucie come to discover on their journey to France that her father is not actually dead. He has been locked up for many years and has been sort of lost throughout it. Dickens can relate to the factor of a deadbeat dad because his father couldn't pay the bills and was sent to a kind of jail because of his debts. This left Dickens in the circumstances to be more grown up and to defend for himself.

Dickens' style of writing is displayed through his symbolised ideas of his life. In a sense, this and his other many novels, all show his life in some way or another. A Tale of Two Cities is more of a historical point of view and will, probably, end up giving a good idea to readers how he took in that specific period of time.