This is the best time and the worst time; This is an era of wisdom, this is an era of stupidity; This is a period of trust, this is a period of doubt.

This is a bright season, this is a dark season; This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment; There is everything in front of people, and there is nothing in front of people; Man is on his way to heaven, and man is on his way to the gate of hell.

Original novel: It was the best time, the worst time, the age of wisdom, the age of ignorance, the age of faith, the age of doubt, the season of light and the season of darkness.

This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of despair, there is everything in front of us, there is nothing in front of us, we all go straight to heaven, and we all go straight to another road-in short, this is the period. ?

Just like in this period, some of the noisiest authorities insist that whether it is good or bad, it is only accepted in the highest comparison.

Extended data:

1, creative background

The novel was written in the 1950s from 65438 to 2009, which coincided with the rapid development of British capitalist economy. The evil brought by the development of capitalism and the poverty of working people's lives have led to the extreme resentment and dissatisfaction of the lower classes, and British society is on the verge of a great social revolution.

This is very similar to the social situation in France at the end of 18. Dickens' comparison between the two cities gave reference and warning to the British society at that time.

According to what Dickens said in the preface, 1857, when Dickens performed Wilkie Collins's play Deep in the Ice Sea with his children and friends, he began to get the gist of the story.

The hero of Deep in the Ice Sea is a young man who died while exploring the Arctic to save his rival after being abandoned by his beloved girl. Such characterization fully resonates with Dickens, and also fully conforms to Dickens' definition of a moral person: sacrificing oneself for others and being virtuous. This provided material for him to conceive the character Caton in A Tale of Two Cities.

2. Introduction to the author

Dickens (18 12 ~ 1870? [12]), a British novelist, was born in a small family of naval staff officers. At the age of 10, the whole family was forced to move into a debtor's prison. At the age of 1 1, they took on heavy housework. I used to be an apprentice in a leather shoes workshop. 16 years old, worked as a copywriter in a law firm, and later worked as a reporter in a newspaper. He only went to school for a few years and became a famous writer by hard self-study and hard work.

He lived in the transitional period from semi-feudal society to industrial capitalist society in Britain. His works describe all aspects of social life in this period extensively and profoundly, vividly depict the images of representatives from all walks of life, expose and criticize all kinds of ugly social phenomena and their representatives from the humanitarian point of view, and give sympathy and support to the suffering and resistance struggle of working people.

At the same time, however, he also advocated the idea of tolerance, forgiveness and class harmony with "benevolence" as the core, and held a contradictory attitude of supporting the struggle of working people in action and denying it in morality. It shows the powerful strength and weak fantasy of his realism.

Dickens wrote 14 novels, many short stories and essays, travel notes, plays and essays in his life. Representative works include Hard Times (1854), which describes the contradiction between labor and capital, and A Tale of Two Cities, which describes 1789 French Revolution.

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