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Is it the polity that eats people, or the unbridgeable class did it?

Abstract:
In the long history of Britain and France, there are two separate and highly
representative revolutions. One was the bloodless revolution in England, also known
as the Glorious Revolution. The other was a violent revolution, the French
Revolution( La Révolution Française). The advantages and disadvantages of the two
revolutions will not be discussed here. The novel A Tale of Two Cities, written in the
1850s, was during a period of rapid development of the British capitalist economy.
The evils of capitalist development and the impoverishment of the working people led
to extreme resentment and discontent among the lower classes, and British society
was on the verge of a social revolution, which was very similar to the social situation
in France at the end of the 18th century. By comparing the two cities, Dickens hopes
to draw on the traces of history to provide a lesson and a warning to English society at
the time. Also I hope through my reading of A Tale of Two Cities, to explore England,
which retained its constitutional monarchy, and France, which attempted to abolish it
altogether. The ideological differences between the old and new aristocracy, the class
contradictions of capitalism and aristocracy between the two representative cities.

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