What is the original text of the two paragraphs of A Tale of Two Cities, and what is the understandi

The philosophical implication of his words is to make the most of the conditions and bring things to the better.

Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities by saying, "This is the best of times, this is the worst of times; This is the age of wisdom, this is the age of stupidity; This is the time of faith, this is the time of doubt; This is the season of light, this is the season of darkness; This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment; There are all kinds of things in front of people, and there is nothing in front of people. ”

The best and the worst, wisdom and stupidity, faith and doubt, light and darkness, hope and disappointment, etc., embody that contradiction is the unity of opposites, contradictions are everywhere, all the time, but for this we must give full play to our subjective initiative, actively create conditions, and promote the mutual transformation of the two sides of the contradiction under certain conditions.

Appreciation

The opening sentence in Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" can be called a classic, this passage uses comparison, duality, neat sentences, concise words, and achieves a high degree of generalization through the opposition of words and sentences, and vividly writes the contradictions in society at that time and the views of different people on society.

In the eyes of some people, society is beautiful, but in the eyes of others, society is extremely dark, and people do not know where they are going, whether it is hell or heaven. It expresses the author's helplessness about society and confusion about reality. The French Revolution was a bourgeois revolution, which opened a new chapter in history, it was progressive, so it was the best era, a spring full of hope.

But at the same time, according to the story in **, the course of the French Revolution was also very radical, and many innocent people were victimized, so it was the worst era, a desperate spring. Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" is set before and after the French Revolution, and the story is not mentioned for the time being, but this paragraph is written at the beginning of the whole text, which is a description of the overall situation of the era, and this passage is very classic in any era.

The first paragraph of the opening paragraph of "A Tale of Two Cities" reads:It's the best of times, and it's the worst of times; This is the age of wisdom, this is the age of ignorance; This is the age of trust, this is the age of doubt; This is the season of light, this is the season of darkness; This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment; We have everything before us, and we have nothing before us; We're all going straight to heaven, we're all going straight to hell.

A Tale of Two Cities is a long history written by English writer Charles Dickens against the backdrop of the French Revolution**, first published in 1859.

Background of the times. The ** was created in the 50s of the 19th century, in the period of rapid development of the British capitalist economy, the development of capitalism brought about by all kinds of evils and the impoverishment of the lives of the working people, resulting in extreme resentment and dissatisfaction among the lower classes, British society is on the verge of a social revolution, which is very similar to the social status quo in France at the end of the 18th century, Dickens through the comparison of the two cities, to the British society at that time to learn from and alert.