2. Literature Review

Recent years have witnessed a steady increase in the popularity of personality. A Tale of Two Cities is a best seller and many people explore the book. Up to now, a great number of scholars at home and abroad have done a lot of researches and comments on the key issues of A Tale of Two Cities. From their studies, we can find different scholars see the issue from various view. 

Wang Zimo expresses his opinions on A Tale of Two Cities attitude of the revolution. Dickens’ attitude to the revolution is complex, on the one hand he was sympathetic to people, recognizing the coming of revolution; on the other hand, he was on the scene to make revolutionary horrors description, and then showed his reflections on the revolution and negation. (Wang Zimo, 2010:77)