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1、AppreciationofAtaleoftwocitiesAtaleoftwocitiesisoneofDickens’mostimportantworks.CharlesDickensisanoutstandingEnglishwriter.Hecreatedsomeofliterature'smosticoniccharacters,withthethemeofsocialreformrunningthroughouthiswork.Thecontinuingpopularityofhisnovelsandshortstoriesissuchthattheyhave
2、nevergoneoutofprint.Hiswritingstyleisfloridandpoetic,withastrongcomictouch.Dickens'snovelswere,amongotherthings,worksofsocialcommentary.HewasafiercecriticofthepovertyandsocialstratificationofVictoriansociety.Hisliterarystyleisalsoamixtureoffantasyandrealism.1.Fullofromanticelementsinthesu
3、spensenovel---ATaleofTwoCities1.1StrongromanticelementsinDickens’novelItisgenerallyregardedDickensasarealist,butnotaromanticwriter.However,FrenchhistorianKazhathinksthatDickensisessentiallyaromantic,heclassifiedDickensandtheBrontesistersasaromanticwriter,toThackeraycalledrealists.Hisargum
4、entonthelaterresearchonDickensisveryenlightening.Britishnovelist,GeorgeGissingandJesterDaytonfoundtheromanticisminDickens’creations,GisssingthinkthatDickensandShakespeare,arethesupremeidealist,heevendirectlycalledDickensa"romanticrealism"[1];JesterDaytonthatshapedthecharactersofDickensisn
5、otapersonlike"God",hecalledEnglandDickens,"thelastmythofwriters,perhapsthegreatestmythofwriters"[2].ModernBritishpoetT.S.Eliotsaidthat"Dickens'scharactersandthecharactersDanteandShakespeare,like,allbelongtothescopeofpoetry"[2].Indeed,thespiritofidealismtotheromanticwayDickenscanneverexclu
6、de.Inhiswork,romanticloveisoftendescribed;thestruggleofgoodoverevilisromantic;figureofjoysandsorrowsoflifeanddeathisoftenromanticparting.Specifictothe"TaleofTwoCities,"thenovel,CarltonandProsscompleteoftheirnobleactsareontheveryromantic,evenwhenCruncherfrombadtogoodarealsoveryimpassioned,
7、romanticandexcitingatmosphere.ATaleofTwoCitiesisatruereflectionofthetimesthatallkindsofconflictanddiscord,quirks,depression,vitalityandtheirunusualwealth.AlthoughthedetailsofCharlesDickensdescribedunique,thecharacterssharpanddetailedobservationoftheexternalcharacter