Dickens Biography Essay, Research Paper

In the Charles Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities,

symbolism in used to portray the themes though out the book.

Through his characters and their actions as well as their

surrounding he shows the theme of this book which is set

around the French Revolution. Revenge and resurrection both

are major themes that are projected by the symbolism as the

novel unfolds with the events in France and the novels main

characters reaction towards it.

Charles Dickens was an English born author known for

writing novels such as A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist,

and Hard Times. Charles Dickens was born in England on

February 7, 1812 near Portsmouth, England. His family moved

to London in 1814 and then later moved to a town near

Rochester. Eventually the Dickens family moved back to

London and Dickens was taken out of school to do jobs around

the house and then sent to work in a blacking house. His

father was soon imprisoned for debt shortly thereafter but

he was released latter by a small inheritance. From this

time he gained a the feeling of being deserted by his

parents which shows latter on in his writing. When he was

thirteen, Dickens went back to school for two years and

later learned shorthand so he could work as a freelance

court reporter. He started journalism at the age of twenty

and began to publish short stories under the assumed name of

“Boz”. When Dickens was twenty-four he married Catherine

Hogarth and had ten children with her.