文档介绍：Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 -- 9 June 1870) London & Paris Tower of London bridge The Eiffel Tower 1789--1794 French Revolution Background: The story took place in the years from 1789 to 1794 with the French Revolution as the background Lucie te Sydney Carton Dr. te Charles Darnay aristocrat ? Doctor te, was imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille by two aristocrats . It was because Dr. te, had written a letter to the minister of state of France to expose the fact that two cruel aristocrats had killed and wounded their serfs in an extremely inhuman way ?. During the 18 years ’ imprisonment, the doctor gradually lost his reason and memory. He did nothing else except making shoes all day and all year round. ['? rist ?kr? t; ? 'rist ? -] ? After 18 years, Dr. te was released from the Bastille. His wife was dead and his daughter Lucie grew up into a beautiful young lady. Under the care of Lucie, te was ing back to life but it happened that Lucie ’ s husband Charles Darnay was the son of the very aristocrat, the Marquis of Evremond. Though it was hard for te to accept the fact, he bore it when he realized that Darnay was a nice young man of a noble character. During the French Revolution, the Bastille was stormed and a lot of aristocrats were imprisoned or killed. Charles Darnay was accused and sentenced to death by the revolutionaries for what his evil father had done. ? Dr. te ’ s old servant Defarge and his wife Madame Defarge were radical revolutionaries At the critical moment it was Sidney Carton, an admirer of Lucie, came to the rescue. He looked quite like Darnay in appearance and in order to save Daenay ’ s life, he was willing to sacrifice himself. At the end of the novel, Darnay, together with Dr. te and Lucie escaped from Paris to London while Carton went to the guillotine instead of Darnay. Sidney Carton is almost the only case in which Dickens has drawn a hero on the true heroic scale, and his famous