Tale of Two Cities Lecture Notes

• Third city is Manchester.
• Dicken's wrote The Frozen Deep with a few colleagues.
• It was partially inspired by Sir John Franklin's "lost "Arctic expedition.
• Similar plot line to that of A Tale of Two Cities.
• Both the play and the novel have a love triangle.
• The two cities are London and Paris.
• Deals with a lot of sacrifice.
• Draws parallels from Dicken's own divorce.
• Huge dichotomy between Paris and London.
• Takes place about 100 years prior to when it's published; mist of the French revolution.
• Dicken's feared the revolution might spread to England; revolution and change are central themes in the novel.
• A Tale of Two Cities was written in installments; Dicken's wrote as he went and based his writings on his reader's responses.