- Preface: Dickens "I have done and suffered it all myself" (level of personal intensity)
-1857 helped his friend put on The Frozen Deep (played Richard, sacrificial character) influences The Tale of Two Cities later on.
- Ellen inspires Lucie, similar physical traits (ends Lucie with the E for Ellen)
- Sydney Carten, sacrificial hero. (Dickens liked Sydney, wanted his name to be Richard ^)
- Being brought up in England at age 10 many things he saw haunted him and influenced him. Quoted saying it gave him an "extensive and peculiar knowledge of the city".
-A place of wretchedness and darkness, as well as great facination.
-Creative ties there referred to as his "magic lantern" every thing is there but disconnected like a newspaper.
- A place of extreme poverty and wealth, a labyrinth.
-Visited Paris in 1844
- Was overwhelmed by the novelties Paris had to offer "there never was such a place for a description"
- Admired the construction, progress and elegance of Paris, while he was also attracted to its harsher side. Its wicked appeal.
-Drawn to the morgue. "drawn to the attraction of repulsion as he put it."
- Emphasizes the similarities in England and France in his famous introduction.
- Dickens was no revolutionary. Tale of Two Cities expressed the horrors of riots
-Pre revolutionary France paralleled with contempory England
-Victorian fear: revolution
- 120,000 in sales with Tale of Two Cities in the fore ground
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