A Brief Survey of the Humanitarianism Reflected in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.doc

PAGE  简述反映在查尔斯·狄更斯《双城记》中的人道主义 A Brief Survey of the Humanitarianism Reflected in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities Contents Abstract………………………………...…………..………………………..1 Key words………………..………………………………..………………...1 I. Introduction………………..…………..………………..………………..2 1. Charles Dickens’ biography…………...………….……..………………..2 2. The setting of A Tale of Two Cities….…………….….………………….2 3. Summary of A Tale of Two Cities……….…….……….…….…………….3 II. Literature Review…………..…………….…………..…………………4 III. Charles Dickens’ View of Humanitarianism…...…………..…………6 1. Humanitarianism……………………...……..…………… 6 2. Charles Dickens’ humanitarianism……………………..…..………….6 IV. Characters Analysis—Humanitarianism Reflected in A Tale of Two Cities………………………….…………...……………………..……7 1. Sydney Carton’s self-sacrifice for love…...………...….………...……...…8 2. Dr Manette and Madame Defarge………...……………………..…..….9 V. Conclusion…………………………………………………….…………10 References……………………………...………………………………..….11  第  PAGE 11 页 共 11 页 Abstract: Charles Dickens was an outstanding novelist and a great humanitarian in the 19th century. He was a productive writer; many of his works express the spirit of humanitarianism. A Tale of Two Cities is the most representative novel of Charles Dickens’ humanitarianism. In the novel, Dickens highly spoke of Dr Manetee, Lucy Manetee, Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay because of their honesty, kindness and humanitarian. Among whom Sydney Carton is the ideal character in the view of Charles Dickens’ humanitarianism; he was well-known for his self-sacrifice and his secret love for Lucy, which moved centuries of readers. On the contrary, the Evermonde brothers, Madame Dafarge and other aristocrats were criticized strongly by Dickens without any hesitation for their cruelty and crime. Dickens’ humanitarianism was his powerful weapon to fight against the darkness of the reality. Although there are some improper points in Dickens’ humanitarianism, we consider the view of Charles Dickens’s humanitarianism positi