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Monster Essays - The French Revolution
The French Revolution
On July 14, 1789, an angry mob of French commoners stormed the
Bastille in Paris. These low-class citizens had only one thing on their
minds as they initiated a nation at war, and that was revenge - revenge on
the King and the government, on the nobles and the wealthy. Dickens
stunningly depicted the motive for this revenge, this hate that all
peasants had for the aristocracy, in A Tale of Two Cities.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . " In
these famous words, Dickens renders an image of the unity of good and bad
at the time of the ....
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