The novel with one of the most famous opening lines in the history of fiction, A Tale of Two Cities

is set in Paris and London of the 1780s and 1790s. Most good stories start with a fundamental list of ingredients: the initial situation, co nflict, complication, climax, suspense, denouement, and conclusion. Great writer s sometimes shake up the recipe and add some spice which dickens works prove it. A Tale of two cities is based on the subject of french revolution.Dr. Manette i s incarcerated in the Bastille for eighteen years without trial. His daughter Lu cie grows up in London, thinking that she is an orphan. But her life changes whe n she knows that her father is released from prison.Falsely imprisoned for almos t two decades, the good doctor emerges from prison a broken man. With the help o f his old servant, Defarge, and his good friend, Mr. Lorry, however, he s reunited with his daughter. They begin to reconstruct a fragile happiness out of the wre ckage of the doctor s ruined life. Charles Darnay is an emigrant who has left France because of his hatred for his family. Charles has given up his lands and his title. He s disgusted by the way that the aristocracy has been handling (or mis-handling) affairs in France. He e arns his living as a tutor. By this time Dr Mannet with help of his daughter ,Lu cie improved his condition.Charles and Lucie fall in love and marry. But there i s another person (sydney carton)who loves Lucie with all his heart and will do a nything for her sake. A Tale of Two Cities is a story of love, war and tragic he roism. Dickens had immense sympathy for the plight of the poor and the downtrodd en, and he saw the revolution solely as the uprising of the poor intent on seizi ng their rights and exacting revenge on the aristocrats. Dickens concentrates on the representation of a certain section of society that has proved, throughout history, that there is a limit to human endurance. In the first part of the novel Dickens is full of admiration for the people who refuse to surrender their humanity and are ready to employ any means to assert i t. But the massacres, the bloodbaths, the Guillotine filled Dickens with horror, and in the latter half of the novel he shows how blood thirst kills every human instinct and noble ideal and replaces it with a destructive madness. Also,The h ouse of Charles's family is burned. Unfortunately, steward of the land gets cau ght in the cross-fire. He s imprisoned for helping the aristocracy. When Charles h ears about this, he realizes that he has to return to France to help free his ol d servant Gabelle.As the French Republic emerges, chaos rules the land. Charles picks the wrong time to return back to France. He s immediately arrested and sent him in the prision of La Force. Luckily, Dr. Manette has some sway in France be cause he was once wrongly imprisoned by the aristocracy. He comes to Paris with his family and manages to get Charles released. After some days of charles trail in which he was considered as a free man. He wa s again imprisioned .On the day of his trial,the court jury reads a letter writt en by Dr. Manette during his 18 years imprisonment. He reveals that Charles's f ather was the one who put him in prison in the first place. Charles is immediate ly sentenced to death.Sydney Carton, the never-do-well who miraculously saved Ch arles years earlier, comes back to repeat his heroics and to keep his promise wh ich he had made years earlier to Lucie. His arrival is only known to Mr Lorry.Sy dney in love with Lucie, seems that this is his way of demonstrating his love f or her. He switches places with Charles in prison.Atlast, Sydney Carton sacrific es his own life for the happiness of Lucie s family. Sydney Carton is, and will always remain, one my most favourite characters. His genius, his selflessness, his agony, and ultimately his noble sacrifice make him stand apart from all other heroes. On the other hand is Madame Defarge, whose n ame is carved in popular memory as one of the most sinister and malevolent chara cters in literary history.