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This is a story of revenge: the protagonist Dontais is framed by an evil man and locked up in a dark dungeon. The fiancee married the enemy, the father died in regret, his life will be spent in the dungeon, all the tragedy of life all concentrated in one person. After decades of imprisonment, after breaking out of prison, Dontais obtained untold wealth, and then began his revenge plan, the enemy was brought to justice, and finally realized the perfection of life.

Through the ups and downs of life, the Count of Monte Cristo finally belongs to the ordinary life. In A Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Manette is very much like the Count of Monte Cristo. He was framed by powerful figures and kept in prison for nearly half his life. After he got out, his spirit was greatly damaged. In the face of the so-called enemy, which is the most appropriate way to choose revenge or forgiveness?

Dickens was inspired to write A Tale of Two Cities by plays he performed with his children. The drama ends with a man who sacrifices himself to save the life of his rival, and Mr. Caton in "A Tale of Two Cities" is undoubtedly the image of that man. When A Tale of Two Cities opened at the theatre, Dickens himself volunteered to play the part of Mr Catton, for whom even the author had a secret affection.

Dickens was born in a very ordinary family, childhood family was very poor. Father drank heavily and ran up a mountain of debt. Dickens began to work as a child when he was a teenager. Later, he worked as an interviewer in a newspaper. This job gave Dickens more opportunities to get in touch with various people at the bottom of the society, and he had a deep understanding of the darkness of the society and the poverty of ordinary people. It is based on this experience, Dickens in his works, for the small people's life experience most ink. In every little person's body, hidden inner choppy waters. Beneath the waves, humanity is revealed.

1. Forgiveness and revenge

In I Want to Be Happy, I Don't Have to Be Normal, British writer Janet tells the story of her childhood: When she was less than a year old, her birth mother abandoned her and she was adopted by a religiously fanatical family. As a child Janet was often left out at night, only to sit on the steps through the long ordeal, she told herself never to cry. Sometimes she was locked in a coal bunker while her adoptive father beat her with a cane or a belt. After numerous violent beatings, Janet's hatred for her adoptive parents grew like a coal fire in a fireplace. Her adoptive mother was an extreme Christian, and she forced her religious knowledge on the ignorant Janet. The world of Janet's mind was like a garbage can. Her mother had sealed her life with religion. This garbage can was covered and Janet herself could not open it. By puberty, Janet had no idea what sex was. Confusion about her sexual orientation and the negative influence of her adoptive mother led her to the path of homosexuality.

When Janet recalls the sad past, she writes: The happy ending is just a pause. There are three endings: revenge, tragedy and forgiveness. Revenge and tragedy often go hand in hand. Forgiveness makes up for the past. Forgiveness unclogs the future.

When Janet completely separated from her family of origin, she chose to forgive it. Even though the family had given her a miserable and gloomy childhood, Janet knew that revenge meant that the tragedy would continue, and only forgiveness could untie the pain inside and let the sad memories blow away.

Dr Manette in A Tale of Two Cities was framed by the Marquis and kept in the Bastille for 17 years. During these 17 years, his wife died of depression, leaving their young daughter to be sent to London by friends. His long imprisonment left him mentally on the verge of breaking down, and even after his release, he still lived in a dark attic. When her daughter first met Manette, Manette knew only that he was a criminal in 105 North Tower of the Bastille.

A broken family and a broken soul, all thanks to the Marquis. But Manette's daughter fell in love with the Marquis's son, and they were bound for life. Though the Marquis was long dead, though the son of the Marquis was a man of integrity and kindness, the descendants of his enemies were near at hand, and Manette could not remain indifferent.

For Manette, the choice between forgiveness and revenge could lead him down a very different path. For the happiness of his daughter, he chose to give up the past, because in front of the father's love, suffering is not worth mentioning.

But not everyone is Manette. Mrs. Defarge's family feud remained unavenged until the moment the Marquis's son was sentenced to death, and her hatred flared up in the air. She wanted to destroy the Marquis's son's family, so that she could subdue the hatred in her heart. But in the end hatred drove Mrs. Defarge into a dark place.

Through the ending of A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens wants to tell us that love can overcome hatred, and forgiveness is the right choice.

But where to go in the face of forgiveness and revenge?

Some people say that forgiveness can dissolve hatred between people, this is the highest level of life;

Some people say that happy enmity is happy life, why adhere to the so-called human morality;