双城记读后感

A Tale of Two Cities is a well-known novel of Charles Dickens which describes the Manette family's experience during the Great French Revolution. Honestly, this is the first time I read this almost world- famous novel, and I deeply believe that for me the inner true essence can only be found after a dozen of times reading, so I'm going to say something that has little relation to the darkness and chaos of the revolution and the madness of maniac \"Jacques\". Instead, I'll mainly focus on the affection among those main characters.

To begin with, there are some ideal persons who are perfect in every aspect. Lucie is beautiful, kind-hearted, and is loved by everyone. When she meets Doctor Manette the first time when he's in a faintness of solitude and disuse, she receives him with her warm heart and soft affection instead of feeling afraid of this eerie shoemaker. I think Dickens wants to portray an image of an angle on Lucie. In the occasion of rough-and-tumble dusty mess, this kind of person is like hero who can rescue the society with love and all the good peaceful things. However, in my opinion, people of this kind don't have their identical personality. They are like beautiful things painted in a picture-- they are too good to be real people.

Then there appears Mr. Carton in the court as Mr. Stryver's learnt friend. I kept thinking he's just an outsider until in Chapter 13, the author

said that Sydney did care something for the streets that environed the house, and the senseless stones that made their pavements. He doesn't perform as good as Charles Darnay when they are in the doctor's house. But his love toward Lucie is beyond compare. One day he goes to meet Lucie and unburdens his affections for her. He has thrown away much, and kept down much everyday. He says: For you, and for any dear to you, I would do any thing. Miss manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there's a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. They are not just sugared words, he actually does it when she is having difficulty. In my view, Mr. Carton is the real hero. What kind of love will lead a person to save an irrelevant person's life with his own life, just because she loves this man, and if he died, she'll suffer from deep sorrow? How much has he sacrificed in order to earn the happiness of the one she loves? To some degree, he's helping his enemy. He has both the bright side and the dark side. He used to be Stryver's \"jackal\" who acts as the most humblest capacity. He used to be indifferent to troubles of others. When she appears, he gives his life to her.

That's my understanding of a part of this book. And I'll read it again to catch more.