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English IV

17April2007

Contextual Overview of A Tale of Two Cities
During the eighteenth century, the economic, social, and political conditions of France were unstable and ready to crumble at a moments notice. However, there was a great contrast between the aristocratic society of France and the poor. The poor, which was the majority of people lived in extreme poverty and had to deal with social criticism and political abuses from their own government. A Tale of Two Cities is a book of contrast whether it is between London and Paris or between the aristocratic and common people of Paris. Charles Dickens live in England a century after the setting of his book and thus had a very personal idea of what it might have been like for those living in the eighteenth century. Charles Dickens grew up in the wake of the industrial revolution for England and experienced a long and hard childhood. Because of Dickens's hard childhood in the wake of the industrial revolution he......

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