Animal Instinct vs. Human Compassion.

The scientific theory of evolution states that humans evolved from apes, therefore we are all, or once were animals. While some religious people choose to ignore this notion, Charles Dickens embraces it in his literary masterpiece, "A Tale of Two Cities". During the French Revolution, inequality was rampant and became the basis of the continuous cycle of oppression. In Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", animal imagery emphasizes the seemingly never-ending cycle of oppression …showed first 75 words of 664 total…

…showed last 75 words of 664 total…to accumulate, "With an inconsistency as monstrous as anything in this awful nightmare, they had helped the healer, and tended the wounded man with the gentlest solicitude...had then caught up their weapons and plunged anew into a butchery so dreadful" (338). The peasants' momentary fuss over the prisoner is soon forgotten when the thought of war enters their minds once more. This is not the mark of a human being but one of an animal.