From: David Parker (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Date: Fri Jan 22 1999 - 02:15:46 PST
My dear Mr Slabaugh, Is not the treatment of Dr Manette oppression, the accident at the fountain, Monseigneur's treatment of his tenantry, everything I describe of the relationship in France, before the Revolution, of the great to the powerless? But you can inquire more deeply. Are not the arbitrary behaviour of the Paris mob, and the actions of the tribunals oppression as well? And you may choose to inquire more deeply still. I wrote "ATale of Two Cities" not least as a warning of what could happen in England if the mighty heeded not the sufferings of the dispossessed. There is what you generation likes to call a subtext about oppression. Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ -----Original Message----- From: stephen slabaugh <smslabaugh@usa.net> To: charles_dickens@rmplc.co.uk <charles_dickens@rmplc.co.uk> Date: 21 January 1999 21:00 Subject: oppression in A Tale of Two Cities >Mr. Dickens > >I'm in 12th grade literature and we read your book A Tale of Two Cities. My >teacher has asked me to cite examples of how oppression was a major theme in >your novel. Could you please give me a speedy reply? >Thank you. > >Stephen Slabaugh > >____________________________________________________________________ >Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 >