Resurrection
With A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens shows his belief in the possibility of resurrection and transformation, both on a human level and at an societal level. The narrator suggests that Sydney Carton's death enables Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay and even Carton himself to lead a better and peaceful life. By taking Darnay' s spot on the guillotine, Carton has become a Christ-like figure whose death has saved the lives of others. Due to this, his own life incomplete and obsolete life, has new meaning and purpose. In addition to this, the last pages of the novel suggest that, like Jesus Christ, Carton would be resurrected. Carton is reborn in the memories of those he died to save. Similarly, the novel implies that the end of the old regime in France, paves the way for a new, peaceful Paris. A Paris that Carton envisions from the guillotine.
Loyalty
War seems to test the limits of all sorts of ties. Your loyalties to family, companions, and even the foundations you have confidence in, all of a sudden come into inquiry. Exactly what amount would you give up for the benefit of the country? Does the country precede your family? Before your own life?
In a Tale of Two Cities, Dickens forces his characters to answer the previous questions. It is shown that there aren't ever any straightforward answers—and amid a huge social crisis, there's rarely ever a time when anybody rises unharmed. Characters figure out how to honor the promises and the relationships that matter to them, notwithstanding when those promises appear to be difficult to maintain.
In a Tale of Two Cities, Dickens forces his characters to answer the previous questions. It is shown that there aren't ever any straightforward answers—and amid a huge social crisis, there's rarely ever a time when anybody rises unharmed. Characters figure out how to honor the promises and the relationships that matter to them, notwithstanding when those promises appear to be difficult to maintain.
Society and Class
In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens loves to show how rich the rich really are. One person even needs four servants to make his hot chocolate each morning. It's precisely this kind of overabundance that breeds discontent… particularly when the poor are staring them in the face and knees in the road licking up drops of spilled wine. The French Revolution started as a critique of the nobility; as Dickens illustrates, in any case, the "awkward" arrangement of the new French Republic turns out to be yet another type of class savagery. Somebody's generally in power. And the powerless always continue to suffer.