Lecture Notes: Tale of Two Cities

1. "The Frozen Deep" - 1857 
1. inspired A Tale of Two Cities.
2. self sacrifice
3. love triangle (how delicious)
2.  Fell in love with actress name Ellen and left wife - 1857 
3. Ellen inspired Lucie's character
1. Other characters:
2. Charles Darney and Sydney Carton (originally named Dick Carton)
1. doubleness of character
2. Charle's Dickens' initials
4. Public readings for prophit - 1858
   • separated from wife
   • left his editors
5.  New editor - 1859 
   • first three chapters of A Tale of Two Cities are pubished (woo) 
6. Experiences in London gave him a "profound knowlege of the city"
   • a dark and fascating place
   • "everything is there and disconnected
7. Paris: 1844
   • "most extraordinary place in the world"
   • strange, striking things
   • half size of London
   • visited 15 times
   • public charity readings
   • last visit was 2 years before his death
   • vibrant modernizing city
     • had a darker side:
     • dark, wicked place, but wonderfully attractiv
     • liked visiting the Morgue
       • public attraction
       • attraction of repulsion
8. Worlds of London and Paris were the same in his story
9. people were haunted by memory of French Rev.
   • very brave for confronting that fear in his story
     • published in weekly and monthly volumes
       • restricted his focus
   • "Best story I've ever written"
10. 1860: first stage version of book
11. 1899: The Only Way
    • another stage play
12. Silent film - 1909 (These are remarkably fun)
13. Sound film: 1935 
14. Thomas Carslisle
    • friends with Dickens
    • influence
    • "History of the French Revolution"