... So did this new strategy make A Tale of Two Cities a classic? I think it did because of its symbolism, its imagery, its foreshadowing, and its irony. " the success of the story depends less on the mere mechanics of the plot than on the way its themes and incidents are fused and concentrated by the ... world have alleged that A Tale of Two Cities lacks a key characteristic of Dickens' other books, humor. Irony is one of the few comic aspects of this book. Irony is a difference between appearance and reality. Verbal irony is when something is said by a character that means the opposite. In...

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... appreciated by those who have already grown up, or those who are in the process of growth. "In his enormous body of works, Dickens combined masterly storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony with sharp social criticism and an acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined" (Sundell). Most of Dickens' works have the main character as a young boy facing the ... ...

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... a large family to provide for. He was in and out of debt continually throughout the novel. In the very beginning he was actually sent to debtors" prison. Dickens explains the irony of this system, in that Mr. Micawber had no way to pay off his debts if he and his family were in jail. David helps the Micawbers by pawning some ... ...

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... one of the most well known introductions to a story in the history of literature. Many parodies and even other stories start off with this line. This phrase represents how much irony can be going on in a person's life at one time. By Dickens saying that it was the best of times things were going well for everyone. Things can be so ... ...

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... and the people who helped him and loved him. He became arrogant and patronizing and mistreated those he should have valued. Through this process Pip becomes lonely and corrupted. The irony of the story is that the very ones who he had looked upon as being far too inferior of him were the ones who had cared for him the most ... ...

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