As I have mentioned time and time again, I have been
featured in several famous works of writing but today I decided to closely
examine my role in literature, not to come off as conceited or anything but
merely for educational purposes. Charles Dickens, a good friend of mine, has
featured me in nearly all of his brilliantly crafted novels. “The Tales of Two
Cities”, one of his best-known novels, has me in it believe it or not.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the
epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all
going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the
period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest
authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the
superlative degree of comparison only.”- Dickens
At a glance, I am hidden and undecipherable but if you
examine the text close enough you’ll see that I am omnipresent in this excerpt.
These famous lines, which open A Tale of Two Cities, have the
implications and suggestions of possible central tension between love and
family, on one end, and oppression and hatred, on the other. “The season of
Darkness” suggests suffering and “the spring of hope” implied a sense of
security and stability. The ambivalence of this excerpt had only been possible
due to my underlying ideas that I have contributed. I provided the reader with
a more insightful view that leads one to infer that good and evil, wisdom and
folly, and light and darkness stand equally matched in their struggle. I am
more then what meets the eye so you most likely wouldn’t have guessed that I
played such a vital role.
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