A Critical Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities Three Works Cited A Tale of Two Cities is a very complex and intense novel. Once you get to know the characters you can feel what they are going through and form some sort of bond with them. A Tale of Two Cities captures the reader's attention with the history of revolutions in the nation and generations of that time, but also keeps the reader reading with a sense of pure violence that is difficult to create. The combination of literary criticism and historical methods highlights the novel's complex structure and intense impact on the reader. Dickens highlights the historical side of the Victorian age with examples and details from the French Revolution and the Victorian Uprising. Lee Sterrenburg states that Dickens's view of the revolution was probably influenced by "a personal daydream that only he can understand. But he is able to render his daydreams in terms of a publicly Victorian iconography." (Hutter 37) The Victorian Uprising occurred at the end of the Victorian age and marked a turning point...