【正文】 exquisite description, and it truly reflects Caron’s motion. Carton falls in love with Lucie at first sight. It was he that first noticed Miss Manette’s head dropped in her father’s breast and called officer to help them. He even loves her, loves her dog. He cares something for the streets that environed Lucie’s house and for the senseless stones that made their pavements. Many a night he vaguely and unhappily wandered there. However because he lacks confidence, he does not pursue her. At the very end of the novel you find out that Carton is about to go to the guillotine, but not for himself. Charl。ofs really not a lot of ic relief. But it39。factors are also important. That is heroes are made by the time. the two points are fully reflected in his novel. Sydney Carton is not the leading character of a tale of two cities. The love among Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton is a main thread of the whole novel. Dickens chooses Carton as the embodiment of ideal personality, and the development of Carton’s character symbolizes the writer’s view, especially shows us his deep consideration of human power. Sydney Carton was a young lawyer. He was known as a selfaware functional alcoholic in this novel. In fact he was talented and quick–minded, but he was cynical and bohemian at the same time. He had a crush on Lucie, but he was so selfabased that he can’t strive for Lucie’s love. While he mustered up some courage and made a point to let Lucie known his admiring，he also in a depressed situation. In this thesis, Caron’s attitude towards his own life is not advisable. It is a little negative. However, his love for Lucie changes him greatly, and allows him to be a better person. Dickens writes a shocking tragedy and makes Sydney Carton, his cynical and charming hero, one of his strongest and most sympathetic characters. Carton’s tragedy is a beautiful tragedy. It is full of touch and humanism. This is the most important reason that the thesis chooses to analyze Sydney Carton. Carton’s tragedy is not just because of his attitude, but also because of the society. So this thesis chooses to analyze Carton’s tragedy not his character analysis. The tragedy of work, tragedy of life, and tragedy of love are the three aspects of his tragedy. Among them, tragedy of love is the best part can express Carton’s feature, and Dickens’s humanism and philanthropism. People always say internal factors are the fundamentalNovelist E. M. Forster famously criticized Dickens’s characters as “flat,” lamenting that they seem to lack the depth and plexity that make literary characters realistic and believable. Sydney Carton is a flat character. He is just a drunken lawyer who works for “the lion”. “He represents the sacrificial hero who ritually slaughtered of his own free will so that society might renew itself, a prospect he envisions before he dies.” 3 Though these characters are flat, they have unique features and they can display an amazing felling. People have been fortably talking for a hundred years about the fact that Dickens’s descriptions of characters often evoke the prospect of humans being beats. “They have claws and beaks, and they are snakes eels, and lynxes.” The characters in A Tale of Two Cities have unexceptionally displayed the same quality. But his attitudes towards these dehumanized people are different. One is born cruelty, and to this kind of people, Dickens is strongly against. The other is changing cruel because of the environment, and to this kind of people, Dickens shows a lot of sympathy, but he is not for them. Above all these people work for the humanized people.Humanitarianism, especially the core of it, fraternity which was strongly advocated by Charles Dickens was the sane answer to the problem of human existence. From his point of view the feudal aristocrats and mon class both need the virtue of humanitarianism and fraternity. Dickens is aware of the social contradiction and desires the mon people to get away from oppression。that “no one can hope to add anything to the philosophy of Mr. Carlyle’s wonderful book”. With reference to Carlyle’s history and other historical works, Dickens has tried to make his portrayal of the working population in A Tale of Two Cities as historically accurate as possible. As the chief victims of the oppression and injustice of the old regime, the lower levels of the peasantry and the urban poor became the chief characters in the revolutionary novel. They are depicted far more sympathetically by Dickens than they were by most writers of the nineteenth century. The reason why he is interested in the revolution is that many serious social crises concealed in England during the same time period. In describing the abuses of eighteenthcentury England, Dickens adopts a less critical tone. But in England the ordinary citizen can not depend upon the justice system to protect him. This parison between the two countries will be elaborated and the differences heightened as the novel progress into the Revolution and beyond. In late 1854, he said“I believe, discontent is like smoke which is much worse than fire burns, particularly as the first revolution in France before the outbreak of the public psychology. That is dangerous, because thousands of reasons such as bad harvest, inpetence and imperiousness of the nobility, defeat in overseas war, domestic incident and so on turned into a terrible fire that have never be seen.” Dickens connects this novel with the French Revolution. Many of his descriptions refer back to the Revolution and help convey the tone of depression. In Ruth Glancy’s Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities a sourcebook, he puts much importance on the Revolution. But everyone who has researched the novel knows that characters are much important than the background. In this novel, he also makes clear the characters in this novel through their actions rather than dialogue. Dickens is a bourgeois humanitarian. Just as Sun Li on