A book report of a Tale of two Cities2《双城记》英文读书报告

第一篇：A book report of a Tale of two Cities2《双城记》英文读书报告

A book report of a Tale of two Cities

By charles Dickens

A Tale of two Cities occupies a significant place in the canon of Charles Dickens’s works.The story set in Paris France and London England in 1757, Dr.Manette was sent to the Bastille because of a letter which denounced the crimes of the Marquis St.Evremonde.As there was no information about him that everybody thought he was dead.Two years later, his wife was dead for heart-broken and his daughter Lucie Manette was adopted by Jarvis Lorry, one of his friends.With 18 years past, Dr.Manette was released and reserved by his former servant Defarge, a former domestic of Dr.Manette’s who had housed the doctor since his release.Meanwhile, Lucie Manette had grown up and as soon as she knew that her father was still alive she travelled to the French suburb of Saint Antoine.On the way to look for her father, she came across and fell in love with Charles Evremonde called Darnay.Actually, Darnay was Marquis St.Evremonde’s nephew but knew nothing about his family.Despite of hatred, Dr.Manette agreed to the marriage for the sake of his daughter’s happiness.A thunder of revolution was on the way, Defarge’s hotel was the connection for all actions.His wife was eager to revenge and recorded the cruelty of the nobility in the scarf.In 1789, the Revolution finally broke

out, when the Bastille was captured and the King was tried and put to death as well as many other aristocrats.Gabelle, an old servant of Darnay was in danger.And in order to rescue him, Darnay went to France.But when he arrived, the French Revolution was on going.He was arrested but saved by Dr.Manette as the revolutionaries treated Dr.Manette as a heroic.However, when a letter written by Doctor Manette 18 years ago unveiling Evremonde’s cruelty was found, he was rearrested.During this time, Dr.Manette tried to save Darnay, but he relapsed into a trance state and was unable to do anything.Through a series of coincidences, Carton discovered that one of the men who testified against Darnay at his trial several years earlier was working as a spy in France.Carton loved Lucie and determined to sacrifice himself to death to save Darnay.On the day of Darnay’s execution, Carton used his physical resemblance to Darnay and his ability to manipulate the spy to pull off the ultimate sacrifice.He managed to send Darnay out of the prison and into a waiting carriage that also included Dr.Manette, Lucie, and Mr.Lorry.He told no one of his plan, and not even the Manettes knew it.They were waiting in their carriage for Carton, fully expecting that he would join them and that they would leave France in a hurry.The rest of the family was in danger because of Madame Defarge, who wanted to denounce all of them.Actually the peasant that the Evremonde brothers murdered was her brother, and she wanted revenge against Darnay and

his entire family.The spy smuggled Darnay to the waiting carriage, and the family escaped France.Carton, however, went to the guillotine and died for Lucie, fulfilling his promise to her that he would die “to keep a life you love beside you.” Just before he died, he thought to himself that his final act was far better than anything else he had ever done.The story ended with the sacrifice of Carton for the sake of love which has impressed so many readers.And the Manette family managed to escape France and led a happy life.

第二篇：双城记英文读书报告

The report of the A Tale of Two Cities

Recently, I read a tale of two cities.I think that it’s a good novel.First, I want to introduce the author of this book.His name is Charles Dickens, he is an outstanding writer.He is one of the greatest writers in the 19 century.However, he had a painful childhood.He was arrested when he was 10 years old due to household debt.He had only a few years of learning.So, in his early years, his works are more about the painful children.He criticized the black of capitalism and had the sympathy for the poor.Now, let me introduce this novel.The background of this book is the French revolution.Before the revolution, the young doctor.Manette witnessed the guilty of the French marquis.So he was arrested in the Bastille by the marquis.After two years, his wife died.His daughter Lucie was send to London by his friends Lorry and adopted by the Miss Pross who is a maidservant.After 18 years, he was released from the Bastille and was taken care by his old servant Defarge.His daughter wanted to take his father to London.In the travel, she met the son of the marquis Charles Darnay who hated the guilty of his father and uncle.Then they loved each other.And now, Charles Dannay’s father had died, so manette wanted to forget the painful memory and hoped his daughter happy.So he agreed with them.In 1789, France break the revolution.All of the marquises was send to the guillotine.Because the Darnay was a marquis.So the Defarge read the report which was written by the doctor.Then Dannay was sentenced to death.Now Carton who always hidden loved Lucie went to the prison and he pretended Dannay.So Dannay escaped the prison.And carton was killed.However Madame Defarge still not gave up.She wanted to killed Dannay’s wife Lucie and their young child;finally she was burned by the pross.After read this novel, let me know about the French revolution.I think the people who lived in that period were not lucky.The poor were very sad.They were too blindness.And I was moved the carton, he died for his love, and I like him very much.姓名:张喜华

第三篇：双城记英文读书报告

The Book Report of

A Tale of Two Cities

英语08-5班 0808010504 王童心

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way Charles Dickens（1812～1870），one of the greatest novelist in England.I have read his A tale of two cities.And this is the beginning of the book.“A Tale of Two Cities”, one of Dickens’ works, is a well-known long story.And it has a great influence on the society at that time.When I saw the title at first, I thought it might tell something about the developing process of two cities, which might be no fun.However, after reading it , I found I had been wrong.It portrays a brutal, bloody and revengeful society as well as love and friendship.It happened before and after the Revolution in France.The ruthless and cruel landowners and noblemen exploited the miserable people who owned nothing, but these poor people worked for others day and night.Noblemen had the power that one word would doubtlessly send others to prison.As time passed by, the noise of the coming-up revolution storm in Paris was growing louder and louder.At last, it was on the fourteenth of July, 1789 that the revolution broke out.“The Bastille and its officers were in the hands of people, and the people wanted revenge and blood.” The true Freedom of France came.“The Guillotine, the new machine of death, cut off the heads of many, many people—not only the powerful and the cruel, but also the beautiful, the innocent, and the good.” Among the good, there was a man called Darney.Even though his father, wife and friends knew he was innocent, the people thought he was the enemy and would go to the Guillotine.In spite of a shadow of fear and hate here and there, we can also see the great and kind persons.I think the greatest person is Mr.Manette who had been a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years.What he suffered was difficult to imagine, but he was still kind and loved his daughter.He did his best to save his son-in-law, whose father and uncle were the men that had ever sent him to prison.Another great man is the lawyer, Sydney Carton, a friend of Darney.Before Darney went to Guillotine, Mr.Carton changed places with him and he said, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done;it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever know.” Besides, the story is full of love, including the love between father and daughter, the love between husband and wife, the love among friends and so on.In short, only if you have love in your heart, the life is meaningful.At the same time, the revenge will run away with you, freedom and happiness will be around you.There is no doubt that Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers in English.From this book, I see some true lives and moving stories from the old ages.I think you must feel the same as me that we don’t want to live in that condition.To be frank, we all look forward to living in a peaceful and love situation.Though the present life has improved a lot, there are still wars in some places.All that we need is to solve the problems in peaceful ways instead of by force.So let’s work hard together in order to make our life much more meaningful and happier, make our society more harmonious.

第四篇：双城记读书报告英文

My Opinions About A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens, who was born in Portsmouth, England in 1812.As the second of eight children, Dickens had to go to work at the age of twelve to support his poor family, and he lived a difficult childhood.This troublesome time scarred him deeply and provided him with substantial material for such stories as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.Though just accepted only little education, Dickens became a famous writer through his struggling self-learning and extremely hard work, and he was the representative writer of realism in the 19th century.Charles Dickens lived in the period of transition between feudalism and capitalism, when the industrial revolution originated in England swept through Europe.As large numbers of workers invaded into urban centers to earn a living, the bourgeois took advantages of the surplus of labor by keeping wages low.The poor thus remained poor, and often lived in a narrow and filthy environment.Dickens’ writing depicted various directions about this society, and provided a keen, sympathetic chronicle of the plight of the urban poor.A Tale of Two Cities mainly about the great atrocities of French aristocrats compelled the poor citizens to resist violently.Doctor Manette spent eighteen years as a prisoner in Bastille because he intended to expose the atrocity after learning that

Marquis Evrémonde killed a beautiful farmwife and her younger brother because of his brother’s lust.After Doctor Manette was free again, his daughter Lucie got married with Charles Darnay, Marquis Evrémonde’s nephew, but chose to live in England because he could not accept the cruel injustices of the French social system and the snobbish and cruel values of his uncle.However, Marquis Evrémonde continued his atrocities.After his crazy carriage crushed over a farmer’s little baby as if nothing happen, he was killed at night.A revolutionary storm was brewing.Mr.and Mrs.Defarge were the revolutionaries in the poor Saint Antoine section of Paris.They wanted to kill all French aristocrats, including Charles Darnay.Mr.Defarge used to be Doctor Manette’s servant, so he was kind to Manettes, while his wife’s heart burned with longing for revenge.At last, Charles Darnay was judged to death, But Sydney Carton, a lawyer who loved Lucie deeply, willing to die instead of Darnay, as they had similar appearance.From my personal point of view, the person A Tale of Two Cities described astounded me very much.Some of them were cruel, crazy and reasonless, while some of them were kind, moral and had own mind.Sydney Carton was the person I thought the most.He was a smart attorney, without his help, Mr.Stryver could not solve any cases.But he was lazy, alcoholic, and cared nothing and nobody, he even could not find any interests in his own life, it seems that he lived just for wasting life.But he loved Lucie deeply.Finally, he

became a hero, because he sacrificed his life to save Darnay.I didn’t know why the author spent so many words to form such a strange guy at frist, he used his life to love Lucie, after all.But now, I caught it.Perhaps the terrible Carton symbolized the terrible old France, and his change in the end shown that everything could change, including the old France, a new and fine society would replace the violence.Then, Charles Darnay.He was worthy of esteem or respect.He displayed great virtue in his rejection of his uncle, Marquis Evrémonde.Money and power meant nothing to him, if they came from exploitation and oppression.Even though he had to inherit his uncle’s bequest, he left them to the poor and lived in London throught his own effort.When he realized that he must go back to Paris to help Gabelle, one of his servants, and make right the wrong his uncle had done, he acted without hesitation because he knew that was his duty.He even refused Carton’s help after he was judged to death.I thought, Charles Darnay was a shiny diamond in that cruel and violent society, and he was a hope, the hope of equality and peace.Third, Mrs.Defarge.How crazy this woman was.Nobody could stop her steps toward revenge, except the death.Although it said that wherever there is oppression, there is resistance, I didn’t agree with Mrs.Defarge totally.Her resistance was inhumane, insensible and endless.For just as the aristocracy’s oppression had made an oppressor Mrs.Defarge herself, so will her oppression, in turn, make oppressors her victims.In the end of the novel, her death by a bullet from her own gun.It shown the

author’s belief that inordinate retaliated lust would destroy one own self.On the whole, A Tale of Two Cities is a successful novel.It shows us oppression and resistance, violence and terror, revolution and vengeance, love and friendship.I am lucky enough to live in the 21st century, when peace and development are pursued all along.Nowadays, there also are many problems and dissensions among this world, but violence does not the best way problems are solved.Violence just creates more problems, something every sensible person knows.What we need are talks and communication.The time A Tale of Two Cities mentions has gone, we should do enough preparation to adapt the coming age.

第五篇：双城记_读书报告

内容简介

故事发生在法国大革命前后的伦敦与巴黎这两个城市，法国的马奈特医生因目睹了某贵族的暴行而被陷入巴士底监狱长达18年，出狱后和女儿露西定居伦敦，并认识了卡顿、达奈这两位长相相似的青年。两位青年均爱上露西，而露西钟情的达奈却正是当年施暴的贵族后裔，他为了救人，回到法国，却因族人的罪行而别列入审判名单。临刑前，卡顿潜入狱中，替代达奈受刑，以自己的死，成就了感人的爱情。

时间是1775年，在巴黎的一家酒馆的楼上的一间屋子里坐着一位白发男人，他正忙着做鞋。他曾在巴士底狱当了18年的囚徒。现在他已是一个自由人了，然而他却不知道自己的名字，也认木出他的朋友。他所知道的就是他必须继续做鞋。

在一辆去巴黎的车上坐着路营，这是他从未见过面的女儿。路营把她父亲带回了伦敦，在女儿的爱心和照料之下，他忘掉了过去并学会了重像一个自由人那样去生活。

作者简介

查尔斯·狄更斯于一八一二年二月七日出生于英国朴资茅斯的波特西地区。

他的作品，一方面具有深切而有力的批判、揭发的力量，另一方面也含有不少的消极因素。虽然如此，由于狄更斯真实地、生动地描绘了十九世纪初叶的英国社会生活，由于他对人民怀着无限的深厚同情，尽管他对资产阶级还存在着幻想，致使他的思想和艺术都受了很大限制，但他还是属于进步传统的。贯穿在他的一切作品中的基调，是对资本主义社会的统治者代表人物、即他心目中的“恶人”的憎恨，和那些处于资本主义压迫下的普通人和穷苦的劳动者、即他心目中的“善良的人”的同情。他的作品不仅在当时发生了巨大的进步作用，直到现在还为人民所喜爱和珍视。

狄更斯主要作品列表

《博兹札记》（Sketches by Boz）—— 1836年

《匹克威克外传》（The Pickwick Papers）—— 1836年

《雾都孤儿》（Oliver Twist）—— 1837年-1839年等。

书中人物特点：

《双城记》给每个读者留下最深印象的，往往是两个小人物，西德尼·卡屯和普若斯小姐。他们的存在证明了人道主义和牺牲精神的存在与高伟。也就是说，这两个人物的设置是为作者写作这部小说的最高命意服务的。从这个意义上分析，不妨说这两个人物的塑造是作者在创作这部小说的过程中最为用心的运笔。小说的戏剧性结构主要地就是为这两个人物的经营服务的。卡屯从容赴死以及普若斯小姐和德发日太太搏斗的章节因而也成为小说的华彩节段。

作者希望以这种舍己从人的牺牲精神对抗仗势欺人和冤冤相报，以爱抵销恨，这种想法尽管极其不合实际，然而其良苦用心却永远值得宝爱。尤其在时序又转过了140年，法国大革命的那一幕悲剧在那么多不同的国度、不同的时间点上演了那么多次的今天，重读这部小说相信不是没有意义的。

读后感：

“这是最好的时代，也是最坏的时代。”《双城记》开篇第一句话被无数次引用。但我猜知道这句话的人并一定小说《双城记》讲述了一个怎么样的故事，也不知道这句话为何而说。如果想理解这句话的原意，以及为何说写出这句经典名句，那自然是要读读原著的。

“---简而言之，那个时代和当今这个时代是如此相似。”这句话其实解释了上述经典句子的两个问题：为何这么说，对谁而说。这也就是小说出世的原因之一，狄更斯希望通过这样一本小说，通过描述法国大革命给人民大众带来灾难来表示自己的担心，同时告诫英国的危险处境。一段革命史，两座分别代表两个国家的城市，几个风雨飘摇中的人，构成了小说的主要素。

虽然《双城记》是一本经典的小说，但因为其明确提出这段革命背景是法国大革命，于是对革命的表现就被认为是作者的历史观。而这正是对小说无数争议的焦点。狄更斯在小说中除了以细腻的笔墨展示了贵族的残忍，同样也展示了革命群众非理性的破坏。他认为，革命是一种压迫取代了另一种压迫，一场直接浓重的血腥暴动替代了另外一场血腥。对攻占巴士底狱以及对暴动民众的一系列描写——血腥，残忍，狡诈，恶毒是小说最为引人注目的地方。

狄更斯把在描写暴民邪恶之处倾心了大量的笔墨，展示了他对暴民的痛恨，从某种层度上可以说是对革命的痛恨。当然，作为人道主义者的狄更斯也指出了拯救世界的良药：爱。这种爱，体现在小说中的包括亲情，爱情，友情这种私人间的感情，也包括抛弃贵族，拯救苍生的那种博爱。其中，最为出彩的是对卡顿之爱的描写。

我非常喜欢卡顿。实际上，卡顿就是狄更斯的化身，狄更斯正是首先想到了卡顿这个人和他身上的某种精神进而构思成这本小说的。那么，卡顿是怎么样一个人呢？小说中描述：“太阳悲悲切切，切切悲悲的冉冉升起，它所照见的景物，没有比这个人更惨的了。他富有才华，情感高尚，却没有施展才华流露情感的机会，不能有所作为，也无力谋取自己的幸福。他深知自己的症结所在，却听天由命，任凭自己年复一年的虚度光阴，消耗殆尽。”

这是个自甘堕落湮没了自己的才华和青春的年轻人，为何自甘堕落？小说中似乎并没有交代，自从他一出场就是如此，并且也没有对他的家事背景描写也并不多。个人认为，这个人代表狄更斯自己，因此他无需过多描述——卡顿的堕落，源于自己对日渐堕落的社会的失望。他走上断头台前曾说过，“我看到这个时代的邪恶，和造成这一恶果的前一时代的邪恶，逐渐为自己赎了罪而消亡。”

被自己遗弃的悲观者——卡顿，在朋友遇到困难，在所钟爱的女子的丈夫即将被送上断头台时，他突然出现，被救人还不之所以的情况下，以自己的生命做代价，在紧要关头使了个掉包计策救出了自己的所爱女子的丈夫。

这不正是基督之爱么，为自己赎了罪而消亡。事实上，小说中的卡顿也确实以圣经的口吻在临死前说，“复活在我，生命在我，信我的人，虽然死了，也必复活；凡活着信我的人，必永远不死。”这就是狄更斯为“最坏的时代”开出的良药，然而这毕竟是一种理想。有人说，《双城记》作为一部不朽的著作，如果没有西德尼.卡顿的存在和所作所为，这部小说就失去了它的价值和光辉。我完全赞同。

书中的政治现实性：

《双城记》的政治性是作者有意为之的。早在1854年年底，狄更斯就曾说：“我相信，不满情绪像这样冒烟比大烧起来还要坏得多，这特别像法国在第一次革命爆发前的公众心理，这就有危险。由于千百种意外——如收成不好，贵族阶级专横与无能把已经紧张的局面最后一次加紧，海外战事的失利，国内的偶然事件——变成那次以后从未见过的一场可怕的大火。”这里“冒烟”的比喻指的就是当时同时潜伏于英国统治阶级和下层民众间的类似于法国大革命爆发之前的那种深刻的社会危机。《双城记》的写作，从原始意义上说有某种借前人车鉴以儆效尤的企图。狄更斯在自己的序言中提到卡莱尔及其《法兰西革命》。事实上，狄更斯正是以《法兰西革命》的描述为蓝本对历史进行衍绎的。

从《双城记》描绘的特权阶级令人怵目惊心的残暴中读者可以非常迅捷地理解法国大革命的导因，而从《双城记》描绘的以德发日太太为代表的劳苦大众令人更加怵目惊心的残暴中读者或许可以得到更多也更深刻的启示。《双城记》和《九三年》（雨果，以下引文出自郑永慧译本，人民文学出版社1957年版）的相通之处从这一点上得到了鲜明的体现。《九三年》的那句名言或许也正是在狄更斯心中盘桓不去的：“在王权之上，革命之上，人世的一切问题之上，还有人心的无限仁慈。”这样的人道主义理念在阶级与阶级兵戎相见的现实面前也许是苍白的，不值一驳的，然而以下论断在时间的长河里更是无可辩驳的：“革命的目的难道是要破坏人的天性吗？革命难道是为了破坏家庭，为了使人道窒息吗？绝不是的。1789年的出现，正是为了肯定这些崇高的现实，而不是为了否定它们。”（《九三年·沉思中的郭文》）