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1、双城记读书报告英文 MyOpinionsAboutATaleofTwoCities ATaleofTwoCitieswaswrittenbyCharlesDickens,whowasborninPortsmouth,Englandin1812.Asthesecondofeightchildren,Dickenshadtogotoworkattheageoftwelvetosupporthispoorfamily,andhelivedadifficultchildhood.Thistroublesometimescarredhimdeeplyan
2、dprovidedhimwithsubstantialmaterialforsuchstoriesasOliverTwist,DavidCopperfield,andGreatExpectations.Thoughjustacceptedonlylittleeducation,Dickensbecameafamouswriterthroughhisstrugglingself-learningandextremelyhardwork,andhewastherepresentativewriterofrealisminthe19thcentury.
3、 CharlesDickenslivedintheperiodoftransitionbetweenfeudalismandcapitalism,whentheindustrialrevolutionoriginatedinEnglandsweptthroughEurope.Aslargenumbersofworkersinvadedintourbancenterstoearnaliving,thebourgeoistookadvantagesofthesurplusoflaborbykeepingwageslow.Thepoorthusremai
4、nedpoor,andoftenlivedinanarrowandfilthyenvironment.Dickens’writingdepictedvariousdirectionsaboutthissociety,andprovidedakeen,sympatheticchronicleoftheplightoftheurbanpoor. ATaleofTwoCitiesmainlyaboutthegreatatrocitiesofFrencharistocratscompelledthepoorcitizenstoresistviolentl
5、y.DoctorManettespenteighteenyearsasaprisonerinBastillebecauseheintendedtoexposetheatrocityafterlearningthat MarquisEvrémondekilledabeautifulfarmwifeandheryoungerbrotherbecauseofhisbrother’slust.AfterDoctorManettewasfreeagain,hisdaughterLuciegotmarriedwithCharlesDarnay,Marquis
6、Evrémonde’snephew,butchosetoliveinEnglandbecausehecouldnotacceptthecruelinjusticesoftheFrenchsocialsystemandthesnobbishandcruelvaluesofhisuncle.However,MarquisEvrémondecontinuedhisatrocities.Afterhiscrazycarriagecrushedoverafarmer’slittlebabyasifnothinghappen,hewaskilledatnigh
7、t.Arevolutionarystormwasbrewing.Mr.andweretherevolutionariesinthepoorSaintAntoinesectionofParis.TheywantedtokillallFrencharistocrats,includingCharlesDarnay.usedtobeDoctorManette’sservant,sohewaskindtoManettes,whilehiswife’sheartburnedwithlongingforrevenge.Atlast,CharlesDarnayw
8、asjudgedtodeath,ButSydneyCarton,alawyerwholovedLuciedeeply,wi