《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感精选10篇
《A Tale of Two Cities》是一本由Charles Dickens著作，Wordsworth Editions Limited出版的Paperback图书，本书定价：USD 4.99，页数：352，文章吧小编精心整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(一)：A life you love
quot;It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdow, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of icredulity, it was the season of Light, it
was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had
everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all
going direct to other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of
its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil, in superlative degree of
comparision."
全书读罢再看开头这段话才理解它的沉重，才真正的发自内心的对作者产生敬意，因为它是对变革
时代特点最好的阐述。这是一本伟大的爱情小说，更是一本真实的时代笔记，它告诉了世人善与恶、对与错、正义与邪恶的界限是如此的模糊，也向世人展示了在革命洪流之中个人的命运是如此的无力和渺小，然而恰恰是这孱弱的生命赋予了这个时代浓烈的色彩，也正是这样孱弱的生命给与了他人继续前行的勇气。
“none the less because he knew very well,that the very small people,carried by another current,
would have rushed at him with very same intensity to vend him to pieces and strew him over the
treet.”
我们总觉得民众是单纯的，是拥护正义的，可身处变革时代的群众却往往表现出不辩是非的盲从，他们一旦形成群体，就极易成为少数政党或个人摄取利益的暴力机器。他们可以在今天把你当做英雄毫不吝啬的献出鲜花与掌声，也可以在明天把因某些人的几句话而以同样的狂热把你送进监狱。他们并不在乎事实与真相，他们已经失去了独立思考的能力，他们只需要一个宣泄个人情绪的借口，他们也没有了怜悯与同情，他人的牺牲在他们眼中只不过是变革理所当然的需求。群体总是愚昧的，群体之中的个体总是自私的，作为群体之外的人，你很难抗拒他们强加给你的命运。
不过，无论身处这样的动乱与变革时代，总会有崇高的情感给清醒的苦苦挣扎的人以生的希望。这情可以是亲情，友情，或者爱情。小说里最突出也感人的无疑是主人翁们的爱情，他们所表现出来的爱都真诚而简单，也正因简单才深沉，才显露与时代抗争的坚韧。
为她而活的Dornay对她说：“if ever there were love in the world,i love you.”
为她而死的Carton对她说：“A life you love.”
Carton 最后的慷慨赴死让人动容与惋惜，但自己并不难过，因为此时此刻的他从往日的酒鬼蜕变成了为爱献身的英雄，并用自己的鲜血在这冰冷、灰暗的时代画卷上描绘出生命的律动，这是作者给他安排的最好的结局——一缕刺破黑暗的晨光。
“I see Barsad,and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long rank of the new
oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishng by this retributive, instrument,
efore it shall cease out of it present use. I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people vising from
the abyss and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long
years to come, i see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural
irth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.”
即便对变革时代残酷无情的本质有着清醒透彻的认识，作者在结尾还是借Carton的遗言说出了对和平未来的憧憬，也给了读者面对生活的信心。
那些无辜的献血与生命终会在不远的将来变成培养幸福的土壤。
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(二)：Unselfish Love
A Tale of Two Cities, composed by Charles Dickens in early 1859, is regarded as one of the most dramatic works of literature known to every household. This novel exposed people’s contradiction during the French Revolution, just like the sentence describes in the beginning of the novel, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
ecause of the oppression of the French aristocracy, Manette, an English doctor, was put in the French Bastille prison. 17 years later, luckily, his daughter Lucie and servant Lorry rescured him out of France to England. When the doctor took a turn for the better, Lucie got married happily with Darney, a French nobility, who gave up his family right of inheritance. However, good times do not last long, suddenly a letter from the French Revolution broke up the calm life. Darney was incriminated because he was aristocracy and was caught in the French prison twice. At the same time, a message in the Bastille prison, written by doctor Manette 17 years ago, was revealed: It was Darney’s father and uncle that framed Manette so that he was in prison. Under provocation by angry Madam Defarge, all of whose family was killed by the aristocracy, the berserk and indignant French citizens decided to sentence Darney to death without questioning which side was right. When the doctor and Lucie came to France immersed in despair, Carton who fell deeply in love with Lucie caught an opportunity to replace Darney with himself. As soon as Darney came back to the Manettes safely, all of them understood the intention that Carton sacrificed his own life for Darney. While Carton was on the road to a guillotine, the Manettes escaped from France to England with great sadness. The novel ends.
A Tale of Two Cities embodies a subversive idea that is opposite to what we have learned from history lessons. Two hundred years ago, the French people, revolted under the oppression of the aristocracy, attacked the French Bastille. It was a great epic. That victory, however, was full of revenge, slaughter, blood and even evil just like the other violent revolution. Through the top half of the novel, the writer gave animated narratives that the French Revolution was inevitable with the feeling of sympathy to French and anger to nobility. Then, the story took a dramatic change. When the power of the unfair court returned to the common people, the law was not better, but rather grew worse, then, the crushing noble tyranny led to a new tyranny. The author Charles faced the dilemma between love and revenge with humanism. Finally, he took up love, tolerance and sacrifice against the dark human qualities and chose to escape from the French Revolution, the violent fight and the hell of life.
This novel in Chinese has been read more than 10 times since my I was 14 years old. Up to now, the English version which is still read by me for English class reminds me of more story details and heroes’ emotions. To tell you my feelings, it’s infinite sadness and sorrow that drive me to cry.
Let’s talk about Carton who I love and admire best. His greatness is described with few details by the author, even I can almost not find the portrait deｓｃｒｉｐｔion when he appeared for the first scene when Darney is under trial. “Mr. Carton, who had so long sat looking at the ceiling of the court, changed neither his place nor his attitude, even in this excitement; this one man sat leaning back, with his torn gown half off him, his untidy wig put on just as it had happened to light on his head after its removal, his hands in his pockets, and his eyes on the ceiling as they had been all day.” As described, maybe his untidy shape could portray his special character much more delicately. If Darney was the No.1 hero, the No.2 hero Carton was destined to be a tragic person. He never showed his love to Lucie because he understood he would be refused necessarily at once. What’s more, he only wanted to realize one wish to visit Lucie occasionally and see her happy all the time. He said to Lucie, “For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.” At the end, When Carton was took to the guillotine, his dying words could make everyone burst into tears, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
A Tale of Two Cities gives us the eternal theme that unselfish love is of the highest kind. Carton’s death composed an ode for a tale of two cities and a praise song for every reader. I believe this novel and hero Carton will guide me to know what love is and how to love others forever.
Kingfish
Jun, 15th, 2011
in English Class
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(三)：印象最深刻的依然是Carton
Carton：
I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. I see the good old man, so long their friend, in ten years' time enriching them with all he has, and passing tranquilly to his reward. "I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both. "I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, fore-most of just judges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place—then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement—and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(四)：Faithful love, grimacing revenge, honor, horror, darkness, and light.
rofound human love and the most repugnant savagery, horror and redemption, a heroine and a grotesque revenger, two families with dark secrets, two cities, all in the backdrop of the bloodbath that was the French Revelation. In reading it, be prepared for the "Best of Times and the Worst of Times."
Like all great stories, the brilliance of this tale is its ability to not only intimately draw us into the tangled lives of these characters, battered by the historical tyrannies of their time, but to use their story as a parable to understand the human narrative as a whole. Perhaps this is why Dickens believed this book to be his best book; perhaps he felt like it was his clearest statement of what he believed.
The struggles of a small family open the reader's eyes to understanding the larger struggles of humanity in general. We learn not only about the turmoil and violence plaguing France at the time of the French Revolution, but the sin and darkness plaguing our human race. Through this story, we understand principles which will prove true for all times and all places. Dickens writes that the evil cruelty of the French aristocracy gave birth to something according to its kind, the French Revolution, as all things since beginning of creation have produced according to their kind. Evil begets more evil. This is the story of humanity.
ut redemption and resurrection echo throughout the novel as well. Darnay had a mother, who, though an aristocrat, once sought to make restitution for the something incredibly cruel her heartless husband had done. This woman is mentioned only once briefly in the whole book, but her influence on her son Charles Darnay profoundly changed the course of Darnay's life and the whole book.
Even Dickens' style of writing is a reflection on the truth of real life. For instance, every single scene in the book is important to the story, although for the first half of the book, the reader can't figure out how it will come together. But at the end, as everything is revealed, the reader can think back and see the purpose for each scene. Similarly, as we walk through life, we rarely understand the purpose for the various scenes we find ourselves in. Although we will never understand completely until heaven, there are times when it is all brought together and we see the purposes behind puzzling circumstances.
In typical Dickens style, this book is written to tug at your heart strings. But this is not done in a manipulative or sentimental way, but in the most straightforward way possible: by giving an often newspaper-sounding account of the events that take place in each scene. Yet any reader with a pulse will be profoundly moved in numerous scenes. How does he do this？ By focusing his accounts on the human element, the true purpose behind any story. Woven through every page in this book is the message that every human being counts. Collectivism, sacrificing the individual for the group, is shown to be barbaric.
Another stroke of genius is Dickens uncanny way of portraying evil. Madame DeFarge becomes in the book everything that she hates. The reason she got to be the way she is, was because of something terrible that was done to her sister and brother by the aristocracy when she was still young. And yet, at the end of the novel, it is said of her that as she puts men and women to death, she cares nothing that they may be innocent, or that they may leave behind a bereft sister or brother or wife. She only cares that more and more people die, and she is never satisfied.
In a pre-Flannery O'Connor style, Dickens leaves the reader no room for false hopes in the goodness of humanity. He wants to take your false hopes and hit them out of the ballpark never to be seen again. If there's one thing that this story was supposed to shatter, it is the myth that man is getting better and better, and the solutions to his sin is minor. Redemption is possible, but the price is higher than any of us imagined.
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(五)：Cannot fully understand the "sarcasm", so let's talk about the characters instead =)
A TALE OF THE TWO CITIES is a novel by Charles Dickens published in 1859, whose setting was before and during the French Revolution. Violence and oppression of the French Revolutions are depicted in this novel, but human emotions and choices that aren’t specific to any historical events are also explored. Through stretching farther the plot, the boundary of “the two cities” is getting faded away, and some essence of human beings and the paradox shared by every society surface to readers. To have a clearer picture about the novel, the analysis of the social structure through the perspective of the characters in the novel are worth noted.
In the novel, the social structure is categorized into three major distinct groups: the old aristocrats, the violent Jacques, and the humane, tolerant oppressed.
The first group, Marquis Evrémonde being the representative, adheres to principle “the earth and the fullness thereof are mine, saith Monseigneur”, which expresses their arrogance and their mania for oppressing others. This group shows absolutely no regard for human life and wishes that the peasants of the world would be exterminated. It’s also unsettling to see that all these Monseigneurs take derelictions of their duty for granted and consider nothing “to the scarecrows in the rags and night caps elsewhere”. It is safe to say, since ironic devices are used everywhere, Dickens contempt this group severely.
The second group, Monsieur Defarge and Madame Defarge being the illustrative character, is called “Jacques”. These Jacques turn themselves into abusers from the sufferers. In the beginning they carry out violence out of hatred or fear against the aristocrats, yet gradually they become irrational about violent revenge, and become extremely cruel and fierce. Take Madame Defarge’s experience for an instance, her family was slaughtered by the marquis, which has justified her revenge against the marquis. Yet whether it is proper to carry out violence against all the aristocrats, and all people disagree with her, needs readers’ indulgence to judge.
The last group, the tolerant, loving civilians being oppressed, is the ideal people in Dickens’ mind. In the novel, they are Mr. Manette, Carton, Darnay and so on. These are people who dissolve their hatred with universal love for humanity. They embody the humanism spirit during a period when everybody else is obsessed with violent revolution. Mr. Manette had had great hatred against the family of Darnay, which had imprisoned him without reason for 18 years. However, out of his love for his daughter, Lucie, he willingly accepts the marriage between Lucie and Darnay, casting away all the enmity. Darnay, being the nephew of the dupuis, abandons the rank of nobility and property after recognizing the hideous crime of his family, and practice for “redemption”. On the one hand is the sufferer of the aristocrat being tolerant, while on the other hand is the successor of the aristocrat being humane. They enhance each other’s sublime images with the linking of the universal love. Among the crowd of bloody revolutionists, this group has been highly idealized or say, sanctified, yet this is probably the intention of Charles Dickens – putting forward another possible peaceful solution to dissolve the social conflicts. And this reminds me of something expressed in the Unbearable Lightness of Being: history rolls on and on, with hatred or hope along. Maybe the sentence by Carton at the end of the novel better illustrates the opinion of this group: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(六)：Discussion about the book in Book-crossing
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Jason and Jim shared with us their thoughts on Dickens's classic A Tale of Two Cities.
The following from Wikipedia amply summarises the main plot:
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated British barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
Jason commented that the upper class should reach out to the lower class with respect. A society must be able to bridge the gap between classes. Jim commented that whoever in power, there is always injustice; only love is lasting and will be triumphant in the end. Our discussion then centred on love: is love conditional or unconditional？ What do you think of the subject？
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(七)：Something about the book
It’s not easy for me to read this book, or I should say, at least not strong enough the reason was for me to begin. It’s a book written by Charles Dickens after all. I knew this man since I read his book Great Expectation a year ago. I overheard a piece of BBC news about him, in which people in England celebrating his 200th birth anniversary. I was in the middle of the book, as I heard the news. People who were interviewed in that exclusive spoken highly of him unanimously, and everyone seems pretty enjoyable and graceful while speaking of Charles Dickens.
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I took half a month to read; actually I would rather say I spent 6 days at most with full attention in reading, for several trifles meanwhile happened distracted me. I started to feel obscure about this book as I read the book one out of three, and can’t keep an average speed at reading. So I aborted my fast reading strategy, and started to read composedly. So here comes my new reading strategy---------lying in bed, and change my gesture constantly to counterbalance the tiredness when I was reading a relatively boring book, which I have to confess, the book is a little boring and tedious, from the perspective of modern literature. The detailed depictures of surroundings and sceneries goes in every chapter, and moreover it includes some complex etiquette from the past by using some outdated words, which make it even harder to read for some native speaker according to my knowledge. It once made me start think of relinquishing, and questioning myself the ability to read classics like this. At least, fortunately I ended up rehabilitating my faith and finishing the whole piece. To retrospect, I indeed went through a hard time contemplating the reading process and now I’m grateful to the voice that was supporting me from all the time. He made me the right choice.
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Compare to other books I read, as most of them from NY times or famous modern fictionist like R.C, the book of Charles Dickens is more implicit and vague to some degree, embellished with some words that are barely used in these days like “thou” and “yonder”. Which as it comes to me, the descent of its popularity in modern times is not hard to imagine, and that is exactly the reason why I can download this book’s digital edition on Amazon for free.
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I now cannot be more convinced to maintain the habit of reading, and I think reading improve your latent ability potentially and gradually. Reading is doubtless crucial especially for language learners to master a new language. Though the process is monotonous and grueling, I believe you will surely see its benefits in the long run. As for now, I will keep reading as my skill and knowledge is skyrocketing, and will never touch the borderline of giving up any more.
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《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(八)：February 22, 2014 at 8:14pm
情深是一种悲剧，必以生死相许。
此书太阴郁高贵，心智不太成熟的小朋友不适合读，哭死。
Dickens真的是一个超级会讲故事的大师。对人性观察之透彻，对社会战争思考之深刻，越发使他惜字如金。爱情，复仇，战争，三个独立的线索交织在一起，情节玄妙复杂，结构精巧完整。
主角Carton懒散，放荡，酗酒…唯一的优点就是帅…哎
是不是每个浪子都有一个善良高贵的灵魂，和一颗感情深厚的心吖？
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…蓦然回首，伊人却在灯火阑珊处。
恍然大悟。
《A Tale of Two Cities》读后感(九)：狄更斯的革命观？
以前看过中文版的，那时候被故事的爱恨情仇吸引，对故事背景没怎么注意，太遥远。
再看了英文版，依然被CARTON感动得泪目，平静下来之后又想了些旁的。
以前的印象中，单纯觉得是贵族对平明的残酷压迫，所以人民的革命是光辉正义的。虽然也感到Madame Defarge有点过分了，但想到她一家惨死，这种仇恨的心情也是正常的。
这次再读原著，发现书中虽然描写了贵族的冷酷，但是更多的笔墨刻画革命者的凶残。
（人性真是相似啊。那个马车撞孩子致死的场景，我们今天也在新闻中看到类似的事吧。还有Defarge家的悲剧告诉我们外国的地主恶少一样强抢民女啊。）
虽然疯狂极端的爱国者们完全是可以想象的，应该说一定是有的，但是本书极端的革命者不只是Madame Defarge一个人，从书里看，但凡革命者，不管是路人甲还是打酱油的一个比一个疯狂，凶残，冷酷。通过很多细节描写表现出来。 于是给我一个印象是作者想说革命者比贵族更可恶。所以疑问就是：狄更斯到底怎么想的？
狄更斯是英国人，他能从法国人的角度写法国人的革命吗？好比一个日本人以文革为背景写了本叫《北京与东京》的爱情故事，那历史观会怎样？
英国相比之下是没怎么经过革命的，不像法国一会革命了，一会又要复辟，一会又革命……英国皇室至今也非常活跃和受到拥戴。我估计经历过革命的国家的人有多不理解英国，英国人就有多不理解为什么一定要革命。
我看我还是重点看爱情吧。。。
另，喜欢在书里搞点宗教色彩是不是也是英国特色？CARTON赴死的时候有圣经做背景（最后一章超级有镜头感！），这虽然完全没有什么违和的，但一定要这样吗？
《纳尼亚》是英国的，狮子死了又复活了。
哈利波特赴死也复活了。
还好双城记是现实主义，要不估计CARTON也得复活。