A Tale of Two Cities Analysis Project

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A Tale of Two Cities Plot Structure Analysis Project Objective: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise (CCSS.RL.5). Topics: Choose TWO of the following and analyze HOW and WHY Dickens uses them (i.e. to create mystery, tension, or surprise throughout the novel or possibly in support of one of his main ideas). Plot Structure Titles Books 1, 2, & 3 Narrative point of view Motifs (secrets, footsteps, etc.) Foreshadow 00:00 Intro 00:30 Titles 2:15 Motifs 5:35 Conclusion

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  1. Hi, I'm Amanda and this is my a tale of two cities
  2. analysis project.
  3. The topic was to analyze the intentional structure of Dickens novel in order
  4. to explain how he organizes events and the white behind those decisions.
  5. The titles correspond with the indirect tone that
  6. diggin sets in the introduction of each title
  7. as the Farc hopes for their sake that they stay
  8. out of France and therefore carry on their lives.
  9. Madame de Farge composed lean, it's darning his name into register next to Prasad,
  10. condemning them both to death.
  11. Another shock
  12. wants to
  13. adam defarges knitting which lists and it's ditching the names of everyone.
  14. The revolutionaries mean to kill,
  15. just as the marquees
  16. exterminate the people, those people exterminate him.
  17. Madame defarges cast a dark shadow upon every character in the novel,
  18. especially lucy's family and it also ominously foreshadows danger that is coming.
  19. The fates three sisters who control human life,
  20. busy themselves with the task of weavers or seamstresses
  21. when sister spins another measures it and the last cuts it
  22. Madame defarges knitting. Thus becomes a symbol of her victim's fate.
  23. Death at the hands of wrathful peasants.
  24. One
  25. the grand stone is in the courtyard of Tulsa's in paris.
  26. It is a place where the people are coming
  27. to sharpen their blades and other battle equipment,
  28. but it is also a symbol of all the blood that spills
  29. the blood that the grandson has
  30. won't wash away
  31. in a tale of two cities Charles.
  32. Dickens structures his entire novel with interwoven
  33. motifs such as resurrection and footsteps,
  34. with the concept that out of the greatest suffering can come, the greatest good
  35. with the belief that one act of
  36. pure benevolence can overpower generations of hatred
  37. since dr minute is alive, but it's just found and just gets out of prison.
  38. The messages recalled to life, which means that he resurrects
  39. when it resurrects or is recalled to life when he is
  40. When he has received rescue after 18 years in prison and
  41. restored to his old life through the love of his daughter Lucy
  42. through lucy ceaseless devotion.
  43. Dr Menez recalled to life, it's actually not a figurative term
  44. Dickens wants his audience to see just how weakening prison is.
  45. The narrative suggests that Sydney carton's death
  46. secures a new peaceful life for lucie,
  47. Manette
  48. Charles Darnay and even cartoon himself
  49. by delivering himself to the guillotine
  50. cartoon ascends to the plane of heroism,
  51. becoming a christ like figure whose death deserves
  52. serves to save the lives of others.
  53. His own life does gains meaning and value
  54. over the final pages of the novel suggests that christ like christ carton will
  55. resurrect carton is reborn in the hearts of those he had to save.
  56. Similarly,
  57. text implies that the death of the old regime in France prepares the
  58. way for the beautiful and meaning paris
  59. that carton supposedly envisions from the guillotine
  60. although Cardoen spends most of the novel in a life of apathy,
  61. the supreme selflessness of his final act speaks to a human capacity for change.
  62. Although the novelty
  63. dedicates much time to describing the atrocities of both
  64. by the aristocracy and by the outrageous presence.
  65. It ultimately expresses the belief that this violence will
  66. give way to a new and better society.
  67. Her London home lucy here see echoes of all the footsteps coming into their lives.
  68. These footsteps symbolize fate, the outgoing footsteps a lucy.
  69. Here's ominously foreshadows the coming of
  70. the french revolution when hordes of starving
  71. desperate people will take to the streets to demand radical political change.
  72. Thus, it is actually here is the being of angels wings mixing in with the echoes
  73. they sent unearthly as if they come from heaven.
  74. The sound of breezes blowing over a little tomb in a garden, mixes with them also
  75. and lucy here's blood of these
  76. and remember like this summer, see having against the sandy shore
  77. intuition at the end of the chapter that she hears the
  78. echoes of the footsteps of those who enter their lives,
  79. along with carton statement that crowds of people
  80. will be setting foot in their lives,
  81. implies that these higher qualities of humanity will
  82. face challenges in the future.
  83. Okay,
  84. in a tale of two cities,
  85. Charles, dickens structures his entire novel with titles and motifs,
  86. the title's still knitting and the grindstone illustrate the growing
  87. maniacal and cold blooded thirst of the revolutionaries for revenge.
  88. Ultimately dickens utilizes the motifs of resurrection and
  89. footsteps to emphasize the injustice in the french revolution
  90. and the corruption in society