From: David Parker (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 08:08:08 PST
My dear Mr Walia, Needless to say, the greatest example of self-sacrifice in "A Tale of Two Cities" is Sydney Carton's. He gives his life for the woman he loves, and for her happiness with his rival. Miss Pross offers a more modest example. She would have been willing to forfeit her life for Lucie. In the upshot she forfeits only her hearing. Perhaps it would be interesting for you also to consider Madame Defarge, ready to engage in a life-and-death struggle, and to lose it, for the sake of revenge. Charles Darnay abandons his heritage and birthright, aghast at the atrocities committed by his relations. From your name, my dear Mr Walia, I surmise you were not brought up in the Christian faith. But you probably know enough about it to see that, at the end of the novel, the great self-sacrifice is evoked, that all Christians are mindful of - the sacrifice of our Lord on the Cross, to redeem mankind. Perhaps that supplies you with a hint for a thesis. Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ -----Original Message----- From: shivani walia <shivaniw@hotmail.com> To: cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK <cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK> Date: 25 January 1999 21:44 Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE >DEAR MR.DICKENS, >I AM IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HAVE TO WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT A TALE OF TWO >CITIES, I WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD HELP ME GET STARTED?WELL THE >TEACHER GAVE US 2 KIND OF MAIN POINTS TO FOCUS ON ONE WAS SELF SACRAFICE >AND THE OTHER RESURECCTION.WELL I AM THINKING AT THE MOMENT OF DOING >SELF SACRAFICE,BUT I NEED EXAMPLES OF WHO IT MIGHT BE, AND ONE KEY POINT >IS THAT I NEED A THESIS BUT I AM HAVING TROUBLE COMING UP WITH ONE.WELL >I HOPE YOU CAN HELP ME IN MY ESSAY AND RESPOND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,THANK >YOU. >FROM, >SHIVA WALIA > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >