![]() ![]() He is disappointed that he can’t find good men, who can do good deeds and feels isolated without any happiness and struggling to help himself. He feels that he cannot do anything to change the world and reasons that even if the sun rises daily. The anonymous narrator describes the personality and thinking of Sydney Carton. “Sadly, sadly, the sun rose it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.” The timings were of the French Revolution when human rights, public emotions, public despair, and mob violence were the order of the day, while on the other hand there was peace in England. ![]() It describes how human emotions, political situation, and religious fervor have set apart two countries. It sheds light on two different times going on in two different countries. ![]() This is the opening sentence of the novel. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ![]()
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