SuitabookA Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]
Lucinda Hawksley
- Reading
- Pause around family wrongdoing and personal responsibility and ask how the book presents it.
- Themes
- Family wrongdoing and personal responsibility: Darnay is sickened by the wrongs he sees, renounces his family and country, and settles in England. His rejection of his family’s wrongs is part of the plot; the story’s broader judgement of his choices is unclear.
- Injustice and revolution: The French setting is marked by severe poverty among the poor, commonplace injustice and growing discontent. These conditions form the backdrop to the story; how the adaptation presents revolutionary events is not established.
- Worth knowing
- Injustice, poverty severe enough to leave people barely fed, revolutionary unrest and a trial that threatens Darnay’s life are part of the story’s stated concerns.