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Literature Review Since A Tale of Two Cities is a novel, as Charles Dickens’s masterpiece was published in installments in All The Year Round in 1859, critics have studied it from various aspects. Comments on the novel may have three sorts. First, those that are the point of view of the historical novel or not—some critics have thought so, but others haven’t. Second, those that are on the study of humanitarianism and most of critics have agreed with the point. Third, those that on textual artistic style and most of critics have thought the novel are the exception in Dickensian novels. Especially, the second one is the hottest one that many critics are interest in. Sydney Carton is the Ⅰ The Reviews from Abroad When the novel was born, his friend and biographer, John Forster argued that “there was probably never a book by a great humorist, and an artist so prolific in the conception of character, with so little humor and so few remember able figures.” It is worth pointing out that while Charles Dickens is often very funny, this book is not. This is really one of his most serious works. There's really not a lot of comic relief. But it's also one of his more emotionally satisfying books and one of his least sentimental. Stephen wrote an essay on A Tale of two cities in The Saturday Review, London. In the essay, Stephen thought: In the Tale of Two Cities, Mr. Dickens has reached the Castle Dangerous stage without Sir Walter Scott’s excuse; and instead of wholesome food ill-dressed, he has put before his readers dishes of which the quality is not disguised by the cooking…It is a most curious, production, whether it is considered in a literary, in a moral, or in a historical point of view. Pritchard did a summary comment on A Tale of Two Cities in Biographical Essay

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about Charles Dickens; Pritchard concluded the point of view of some critics that the novel is the author’s autobiography and agreed that: Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, two main characters, portray different sides of Dickens’ initials, tires to shed his family’s past but can not hide from its reach. Sydney Carton redeems himself through his love for Lucie Manette. These two versions of Dickens are unified in the novel, and they show the destructive power of the past and the healing power of love and sacrifice. In the 21st century, Petch mainly argued The Business of the Barrister in A Tale of Two Cites. In the essay, Simon Petch declared that A Tale of Two Cities is the story of one lawyer, Sydney Carton, and his self-sacrificing love for one woman, in the context of his relations with several other professional men, at the time of the French Revolution. From the above, these critics studied A Tale of Two Cities from varied aspects, especially from history, autobiography, archetype, etc. Long before created A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens showed great solicitude for the French Revolution and retreaded an English historian, Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution. So in this novel, another writer can be seen. It is Tomas Carlyle. In Ruth Glancy’s Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities a sourcebook, he puts much importance on the Revolution. But everyone who has researched the novel knows that characters are much important than the background. In this novel, he also makes clear the characters in this novel through their actions rather than dialogue. Novelist E. M. Forster famously criticized Dickens’s characters as “flat,” lamenting that they seem to lack the depth and complexity that make literary characters realistic and believable. Sydney Carton is a flat character. He is just a drunken lawyer who works for “the lion”. Karis Marie Kalil wrote On Dickens’ a tale of two cities “He represents the sacrificial hero who ritually slaughtered of his own 8