“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This is probably one of the most iconic opening lines of a novel. A Tale of Two Cities begins by describing parts of both France and England and then entering into the main plot of the novel by introducing Jarvis Lorry who works for the Tellsons bank and a girl he is trying to help named miss Manette. After reading the first portion of chapters it is hard to point out any given themes, but knowing Charles Dickens, he usually focuses on the differencing between social classes and how the higher class is detrimental and cruel to the lower class. In the fifth chapter Dickens writes about a keg in Paris that has started to spill wine, “The rough irregular stones of the street pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd.” Dickens...