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1、AppreciationofAtaleoftwocitiesAtaleoftwocitiesisoneofDickens’mostimportantworks.CharlesDickensisanoutstandingEnglishwriter.Hecreatedsomeofliterature'smosticoniccharacters,withthethemeofsocialreformrunningthroughouthiswork.Thecontinuingpopularityofhisnovelsandshortstoriesi
2、ssuchthattheyhavenevergoneoutofprint.Hiswritingstyleisfloridandpoetic,withastrongcomictouch.Dickens'snovelswere,amongotherthings,worksofsocialcommentary.HewasafiercecriticofthepovertyandsocialstratificationofVictoriansociety.Hisliterarystyleisalsoamixtureoffantasyandreali
3、sm.1.Fullofromanticelementsinthesuspensenovel---ATaleofTwoCities1.1StrongromanticelementsinDickens’novelItisgenerallyregardedDickensasarealist,butnotaromanticwriter.However,FrenchhistorianKazhathinksthatDickensisessentiallyaromantic,heclassifiedDickensandtheBrontesistersa
4、saromanticwriter,toThackeraycalledrealists.HisargumentonthelaterresearchonDickensisveryenlightening.Britishnovelist,GeorgeGissingandJesterDaytonfoundtheromanticisminDickens’creations,GisssingthinkthatDickensandShakespeare,arethesupremeidealist,heevendirectlycalledDickensa
5、"romanticrealism"[1];JesterDaytonthatshapedthecharactersofDickensisnotapersonlike"God",hecalledEnglandDickens,"thelastmythofwriters,perhapsthegreatestmythofwriters"[2].ModernBritishpoetT.S.Eliotsaidthat"Dickens'scharactersandthecharactersDanteandShakespeare,like,allbelong
6、tothescopeofpoetry"[2].Indeed,thespiritofidealismtotheromanticwayDickenscanneverexclude.Inhiswork,romanticloveisoftendescribed;thestruggleofgoodoverevilisromantic;figureofjoysandsorrowsoflifeanddeathisoftenromanticparting.Specifictothe"TaleofTwoCities,"thenovel,Carltonand
7、Prosscompleteoftheirnobleactsareontheveryromantic,evenwhenCruncherfrombadtogoodarealsoveryimpassioned,romanticandexcitingatmosphere.ATaleofTwoCitiesisatruereflectionofthetimesthatallkindsofconflictanddiscord,quirks,depression,vitalityandtheirunusualwealth.Althoughthedetai
8、lsofCharlesDickensdescribedunique,thecharacterssharpanddetailedobservationoftheexternalcharacter