... . Valjean, instead of thanking the Bishop for his hospitality, he stole the silver from the church and then planned to kill him if the Bishop were to awaken. Political involvement and political concerns were incorporated in Les Miserables, as in A Tale of Two Cities. Both authors were able to incorporate important ideologies of their time. Both wrote novels of struggle in which ... the theme of redemption was a factor. Dickens, as mentioned before, felt for prostitutes, as did Hugo. Hugo showed that through Fantine. ... House Publishers, 1988. Creech, Calvin. Victor Hugo's Political Vi...

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... end or vica versa. Their goodness or evilness is clearly shown from the beginning. A Tale of Two Cities takes place in England and France, during the time of the French Revolution. A Tale of Two Cities is a classic novel, where Charles Dickens presents to the reader archetypal main characters. From the beginning of the novel, the reader can know whether the characters are evil or not. In the novel ... , the main character, Sydney Carton, also contributes a lot to the theme of the novel-every individual should have both ... moral and physical courage, and should be able to sacrifice ... ...

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... individual gangs. For instance, African American gangs tend to confine their activities to their own communities, although the Bloods and the Crips, two gangs originating in Los Angeles, now have members nationwide. In contrast, Asian gangs often travel hundreds of miles from home in order to conduct their activities (Bodinger-deUriarte, 1993). In addition, African American and Hispanic gangs are much ... States, gangs have taken on a different character and have moved into areas unimagined by Dickens. Most significantly, they are spreading from inner cities to "edge cities" cities at th...

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... a man who is seemingly untouched by all the nastiness of the city around him and instead, he is 'in his High Court'. This is a direct show of his opinion on the current situation; that the city is divided, and Two Cities showed that he thought this extended beyond just London and ... England. Dickens' sketches are the direct descendants of the essayists of the Romantic Era, the subjects are similar, the content ... sensationalism it brings with isolation to instead an isolation in a crowded place which the classic Gothic novels didn't do, thus bringing in his deep criticism of the...

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