The Wuthering Heights And A Tale of Two Cities
The two books analyzed below have much in common, though their plots and backgrounds are completely different. These two novels are called A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte are famous for their plots, hidden meanings and incomparably complex characters.
The first book had attracted the praise of a hundred thousand readers. This novel begins its story in Paris, fourteen years prior to the French Revolution. Dr. Alexandre Manette has been released from the Bastille after having been unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years. His daughter, Lucie, who is being one of the main characters here, has travelled to Paris from London with Jarvis Lorry, a family friend, to bring him home. Later, after five years, the Manettes are called to testify in the trial of Charles Darnay, the man that they had met during their return from France. Darnay, a French language teacher that has been accused of spying for the French is acquitted when his lawyer, C. J. Stryver, puzzles a witness by presenting his law partner, Sydney Carton, who is so closely similar to Darnay. As a result, the witness is unable to make a positive identification of Darnay, and he returns to England and asks Mr. Manette for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Carton is also in love with Lucie, but she refuses his proposal of marriage. Then, he tells the girl never to forget that he will do anything he can to her and those she loves. At the end of the novel Carton sacrifices himself and saves Darnay form the guillotine. There are many critics over this book, but the modern opinion has given the novel an important place among Dickens’s most mature works of fiction.
The second novel is also very puzzled and saturated with characters and feelings though it describes the cruelty towards the other person. Wuthering Heights was the only novel Emily Bronte ever published under the pen name, Ellis Bell. Wuthering Heights is a complex novel, and critics have approached it from many different views. This book is now considered to be a classic of English literature. Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative’s stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatizations. There are two primary narrators: Mr. Lockwood and Ellen “Nelly” Dean. Besides, there are several flashbacks in this story. The novel starts in 1801, with Mr. Lockwood arriving at Thrushcross Grange. During the night, Lockwood finds a book of the experiences of a girl named Catherine Earnshaw, in which he learns that she and Heathcliff were extremely close as children. Lockwood then has a terrifying dream of Catherine’s ghost appearing at his window, deathly pale, asking him to let her into the home.
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