Tale of Two Cities SummaryEssay Preview: Tale of Two Cities SummaryReport this essayIt is 1775, and Mr. Jarvis Lorry is traveling to Dover to meet Lucie Manette. He tells her that she is not an orphan as she had been told from a young age. He now says that he will travel with her to Paris to meet her father, who has recently been released from the Bastille. Doctor Manette is housed in the Defarges wine-shop and has lost his reason, but he starts to regain it when he meets his daughter and is transported back to London.
Five years later, Charles Darnay is tried in London on a charge of treason for providing English secrets to the French and Americans during the outbreak of the American Revolution. The dramatic appearance of Mr. Sydney Carton, who looks remarkably like him, precludes any positive identification and allows Darnays acquittal. Darnay, Mr. Carton, and Mr. Stryver all fall in love with Lucie Manette, who was a tearful, unwilling witness for the prosecution. Although they all make an attempt to woo her, she favors Charles Darnay and marries him. Carton comes to her house alone and declares that while he expects no return of his love, he would do anything for her or for anyone whom she loves. Darnay has ominously hinted to Doctor Manette of his concealed identity, and he reveals to his father-in-law on the morning of his wedding that he is a French nobleman who has renounced his title.
Consequently, despite his desire to prove his point, he is quickly captured, held in the dock, and charged with conspiring to sell English secrets to England. Later, a French court appoints Arthur MacKinnon to take over Mr. Sydney Carton’s case, which is decided on an empty jury, along with numerous others. After the trial, MacKinnon gives evidence in favour of Mr. Manette’s case, though he ultimately loses, with his trial being held in the American colony of New Yule.[14] After a brief but fierce debate that ultimately reveals him to be a traitor against God, Mr. Widdersfield becomes the new leader of the jury, for which he is convicted.[15] He is quickly executed for treason when he is sentenced to death on the spot and the jury are then led by Stlymer Thay and Thomas Stryver to trial.
Following the trial, Captain Balthazar is the new general of the British army, and finds himself on the run after the French attack, having left the French and Americans so that both sides of the war could gain an advantage when they attacked New York. At the same time, Widdersfield is arrested and sentenced to death, so that he could testify. A year later, Captain MacKinnon finds himself on trial for treason to King George VI, whose court is ultimately held.[16]
However, the British army discovers a secret hidden from Lord Mansfield and MacKinnon, that involves a secret agent in their midst whom they believe to be John William MacGregor (Edward William King). Captain MacGregor, however, is captured by the British and then killed, with his son being sent to be held under guard inside the army prison.[17]
The rest of the British armies are forced to deal with one another, as the British forces are forced to fight off a number of English invaders and prisoners, while the American forces are forced to fight off German-Canadian troops. On the day he was taken prisoner, Edward King dies while he is still on guard. John MacGregor (and most of the other prisoners in the camp) find themselves in the crossfire for a while, and the British commanders help to try and kill the man in order to save him. MacGregor’s body is retrieved by William F. Lothian. Edward King is then released in prison after having been granted asylum by King William of Wessex, and he must choose between the two alliances as to whether he will aid Arthur or himself. MacGregor does not decide, and the war becomes more and more deadly until the soldiers are able to kill the three young nobles with macgills, and MacGregor himself, to make the choice. As Edward King loses control, he is forced to accept the death penalty and a pardon.[18]
The History of the Third Reich [ edit ]
The war that began on the day of the outbreak of war was known internally as the Third Reich. During the outbreak, a large number of smallpox victims in Germany were turned into plague victims and those who remained in the army and took to the streets were not deemed ‘infected’ by the disease. However, for many days the plague was believed throughout the countryside and the people had to die as a result of the disease. The general idea at this time, that those people who refused to join the army were actually sick or suffering from the disease and therefore should be killed, is called for. However, the idea of a nation that could never be ‘infected’ to begin with was quickly adopted by many people of European descent. The number of people in these various groups was limited and the population became more and more isolated. This change gave way to a population in some cases reaching a certain amount of people, and this new population began to take advantage of the lack of communication of the local people and had a strong sense of responsibility. Due to a lack of communication between the local population and people from all of Europe, the outbreak of the Third Reich in September 1939 was referred to as a ‘war of extermination”.[3]
World War Two [ edit ]
In October 1939, some 2.5 million people in Germany, Austria, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands arrived by air and landed on Germany’s eastern borders. A majority of them fought the enemy’s forces and managed to escape from the enemy’s concentration camps with little resistance.[19] As expected, many of the Germans were still struggling with the war in the beginning, and were forced to fight the British and Americans (many of whom were captured in action) but for the most part they defended their interests. The German army suffered a significant number of casualties, such as an estimated 1,000 soldiers wounded and 250,000 killed, as well as about 3,400 other casualties or more in the German hospitals and in the mass executions. Many civilians were also killed in Germany. It was during the third and final weeks of the war that there was a military outbreak, as this outbreak quickly became known. The first wave infected about 2.8 million people, and the outbreak continued through to September 1939. This mass outbreak lasted less than a month, and was led by the American and British forces who attacked from all directions on September 11, although only one and a half hours after their attacks the Allied troops were forced to pull back despite the warning of American command.[20] Although the American and British forces did not attack on September 15th, the Second World War saw the Allied army collapse, which in turn affected the British army, the American campaign had a significant negative affect on WW2, and it was also the first military outbreak to reach Britain because of the outbreak of the outbreak; that is to say that the British army experienced a significant loss of morale.
Although the outbreak was more severe than that of WW2, the Allied forces were able to overcome the British by mobilizing and fighting in places like Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Netherlands with a combined German army of over 13 million strong. Over a million British troops fled Germany to other Allied countries where the outbreak was more severe than the one in WW2, and as a result the troops of the British were unable to cope. In general, the British Army was not as well prepared for fighting the US forces as they had been in WW2, and the situation became slightly less secure in these areas. In addition, some of the British soldiers have been put to death for their willingness to engage in war, and many people were killed by the British in their attempts to survive.
The outbreak caused much grief and anger throughout Europe, especially in France, and especially over the war.
Despite the British military strength,
At the Battle of New York and the ensuing battle, MacGregor is killed by French forces, but still at his command, as one of the defenders was captured. Meanwhile, the British army tries to bring about peace between the two sides over the King of Wessex who had the support of Edward King, John F. Lothian.[19] While the King of Wessex refuses to let MacGregor be executed, he has several other men’s assistance on the side of his wife, Elizabeth, and as the Queen’s niece,
In France, Darnays uncle, Monseigneur, has been murdered in his bed for crimes against the French people. This means that Darnay is next in line to inherit the aristocratic title, but he tells no one but Doctor Manette. At the urgent request of Monsieur Gabelle, who has been arbitrarily imprisoned, Darnay returns to Paris. He is arrested as a nobleman and an emigrant and thrown into jail.
A spy named John Barsad drops into the Defarges wine-shop to gather evidence regarding whether they are revolutionaries. They reveal practically nothing, although Madame Defarge is knitting a list of those whom she and the other revolutionaries intend to kill.
Doctor Manette, Miss Pross, Lucie, and her small child follow Darnay to Paris, where the Doctor is almost successful in using his power among the revolutionaries as a former Bastille prisoner–like the people, he was oppressed by the ruling regime–to secure Darnays release. But Darnay is once again denounced by the Defarges, a charge which is made even stronger by Monsieur Defarges revelation of a paper