ATaleofTwoCitys双城记简介.ppt

Chapter 2Learn about the background of A Tale of Two Cities  A Tale of Two Cities is one of the most important masterpieces of Dickens, works by Charles Dickens published at the age of 47, is the pinnacle of his twilight years. Long before the creation of A Tale of Two Cities Dickens of great concern to the French Revolution, mulling British historian Carrolls History of the French Revolution and the writings of other scholars. He originated in the French Revolution interest in the concerns of the British lurking serious social crisis. The end of 1854, he said: I believe that dissatisfaction with emotions like this smoke than fire up even much worse, especially as the French public psychology in the first before the outbreak of the revolution, which is dangerous, because of the countless types of reasons - such as a bad harvest, the aristocracy the imperious and no can already tense situation last stepped up, the defeat of foreign wars, domestic episodic events, and so on - into that have never seen a terrible fire. visible A Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 3Let’s go into A Tale of Two Cities  Synopsis(梗概) 1757年12月，巴黎医生曼奈特（Dr. Alexandre Manette）被厄弗里蒙地侯爵兄弟强迫出诊，看到一对姐弟气绝的惨状。弟弟在临死前将侯爵兄弟二人对自己家族的迫害告诉了医生，自己的姐夫和父亲如何因这二人的关系死去和自己的姐姐受到了怎样的迫害。曼奈特写信向国王告发，不幸这封信落到侯爵兄弟手中。最后曼奈特以政治犯身份被关进巴士底监狱（Bastille Saint-Antoine ），2年后妻子忧郁以终，女儿露西·曼奈特（Lucie Manette）被好友劳雷接到伦敦抚养。曼奈特在监狱中渡过18年后释放，得他以前的仆人德法奇（Ernest Defarge）收留，德法奇开了一家酒店，是革命活动的联络站，他的妻子将法国贵族的暴行记录在围巾上。曼奈特的女儿露西接他去英国伦敦居住，路上遇到侯爵的儿子查尔斯·丹尼。 Book the First: Recalled to Life(复活) 查尔斯·丹尼（Charles Darney）和雪尼·卡顿（Sydney Carton）外貌相似，但性格却完全不同。丹尼是法国贵族后裔，但是他对其家族压迫劳动者的行为感到不满，他放弃财产的继承权，一人在伦敦谋生，是一名法语教师。卡顿是一个有才华但愤世嫉俗的英国律师。两人爱上了同一个女人，露西·曼奈特爱上了丹尼，两人在曼奈特医生同意后结婚。丹尼的双亲相继去世，叔父厄弗里蒙地侯爵因为压死农夫的小孩，被孩子的父亲一刀杀死。 Book the Second: the Golden Thread(金线) 法国大革命（ French Revolution ）爆发， 巴黎人民攻陷巴士底监狱（ Bastille Saint-Antoine ），已经继承家业的丹尼为保护旧日的管家盖白勒， 冒险赶回时局纷乱的巴黎，一到巴黎就被捕入狱。 得知消息后露西与曼奈特医生也一起赶到巴黎， 曼奈特医生利用其老政治犯的威望拯救被囚禁的丹尼。虽然丹尼最后重获自由，但是很快又因被人检举而重新入狱，检举人竟然是曾经帮助过曼奈特医生的德法奇夫人（Teresa Defa