第一篇：雙城記英文讀書(shū)報(bào)告

The Book Report of

A Tale of Two Cities

英語(yǔ)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.

第二篇：雙城記英文讀書(shū)報(bào)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:張喜華

第三篇：雙城記讀書(shū)報(bào)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.

第四篇：雙城記_讀書(shū)報(bào)告

內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介

故事發(fā)生在法國(guó)大革命前后的倫敦與巴黎這兩個(gè)城市，法國(guó)的馬奈特醫(yī)生因目睹了某貴族的暴行而被陷入巴士底監(jiān)獄長(zhǎng)達(dá)18年，出獄后和女兒露西定居倫敦，并認(rèn)識(shí)了卡頓、達(dá)奈這兩位長(zhǎng)相相似的青年。兩位青年均愛(ài)上露西，而露西鐘情的達(dá)奈卻正是當(dāng)年施暴的貴族后裔，他為了救人，回到法國(guó)，卻因族人的罪行而別列入審判名單。臨刑前，卡頓潛入獄中，替代達(dá)奈受刑，以自己的死，成就了感人的愛(ài)情。

時(shí)間是1775年，在巴黎的一家酒館的樓上的一間屋子里坐著一位白發(fā)男人，他正忙著做鞋。他曾在巴士底獄當(dāng)了18年的囚徒。現(xiàn)在他已是一個(gè)自由人了，然而他卻不知道自己的名字，也認(rèn)木出他的朋友。他所知道的就是他必須繼續(xù)做鞋。

在一輛去巴黎的車(chē)上坐著路營(yíng)，這是他從未見(jiàn)過(guò)面的女兒。路營(yíng)把她父親帶回了倫敦，在女兒的愛(ài)心和照料之下，他忘掉了過(guò)去并學(xué)會(huì)了重像一個(gè)自由人那樣去生活。

作者簡(jiǎn)介

查爾斯·狄更斯于一八一二年二月七日出生于英國(guó)樸資茅斯的波特西地區(qū)。

他的作品，一方面具有深切而有力的批判、揭發(fā)的力量，另一方面也含有不少的消極因素。雖然如此，由于狄更斯真實(shí)地、生動(dòng)地描繪了十九世紀(jì)初葉的英國(guó)社會(huì)生活，由于他對(duì)人民懷著無(wú)限的深厚同情，盡管他對(duì)資產(chǎn)階級(jí)還存在著幻想，致使他的思想和藝術(shù)都受了很大限制，但他還是屬于進(jìn)步傳統(tǒng)的。貫穿在他的一切作品中的基調(diào)，是對(duì)資本主義社會(huì)的統(tǒng)治者代表人物、即他心目中的“惡人”的憎恨，和那些處于資本主義壓迫下的普通人和窮苦的勞動(dòng)者、即他心目中的“善良的人”的同情。他的作品不僅在當(dāng)時(shí)發(fā)生了巨大的進(jìn)步作用，直到現(xiàn)在還為人民所喜愛(ài)和珍視。

狄更斯主要作品列表

《博茲札記》（Sketches by Boz）—— 1836年

《匹克威克外傳》（The Pickwick Papers）—— 1836年

《霧都孤兒》（Oliver Twist）—— 1837年-1839年等。

書(shū)中人物特點(diǎn)：

《雙城記》給每個(gè)讀者留下最深印象的，往往是兩個(gè)小人物，西德尼·卡屯和普若斯小姐。他們的存在證明了人道主義和犧牲精神的存在與高偉。也就是說(shuō)，這兩個(gè)人物的設(shè)置是為作者寫(xiě)作這部小說(shuō)的最高命意服務(wù)的。從這個(gè)意義上分析，不妨說(shuō)這兩個(gè)人物的塑造是作者在創(chuàng)作這部小說(shuō)的過(guò)程中最為用心的運(yùn)筆。小說(shuō)的戲劇性結(jié)構(gòu)主要地就是為這兩個(gè)人物的經(jīng)營(yíng)服務(wù)的。卡屯從容赴死以及普若斯小姐和德發(fā)日太太搏斗的章節(jié)因而也成為小說(shuō)的華彩節(jié)段。

作者希望以這種舍己從人的犧牲精神對(duì)抗仗勢(shì)欺人和冤冤相報(bào)，以愛(ài)抵銷恨，這種想法盡管極其不合實(shí)際，然而其良苦用心卻永遠(yuǎn)值得寶愛(ài)。尤其在時(shí)序又轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)了140年，法國(guó)大革命的那一幕悲劇在那么多不同的國(guó)度、不同的時(shí)間點(diǎn)上演了那么多次的今天，重讀這部小說(shuō)相信不是沒(méi)有意義的。

讀后感：

“這是最好的時(shí)代，也是最壞的時(shí)代?！薄峨p城記》開(kāi)篇第一句話被無(wú)數(shù)次引用。但我猜知道這句話的人并一定小說(shuō)《雙城記》講述了一個(gè)怎么樣的故事，也不知道這句話為何而說(shuō)。如果想理解這句話的原意，以及為何說(shuō)寫(xiě)出這句經(jīng)典名句，那自然是要讀讀原著的。

“---簡(jiǎn)而言之，那個(gè)時(shí)代和當(dāng)今這個(gè)時(shí)代是如此相似。”這句話其實(shí)解釋了上述經(jīng)典句子的兩個(gè)問(wèn)題：為何這么說(shuō)，對(duì)誰(shuí)而說(shuō)。這也就是小說(shuō)出世的原因之一，狄更斯希望通過(guò)這樣一本小說(shuō)，通過(guò)描述法國(guó)大革命給人民大眾帶來(lái)災(zāi)難來(lái)表示自己的擔(dān)心，同時(shí)告誡英國(guó)的危險(xiǎn)處境。一段革命史，兩座分別代表兩個(gè)國(guó)家的城市，幾個(gè)風(fēng)雨飄搖中的人，構(gòu)成了小說(shuō)的主要素。

雖然《雙城記》是一本經(jīng)典的小說(shuō)，但因?yàn)槠涿鞔_提出這段革命背景是法國(guó)大革命，于是對(duì)革命的表現(xiàn)就被認(rèn)為是作者的歷史觀。而這正是對(duì)小說(shuō)無(wú)數(shù)爭(zhēng)議的焦點(diǎn)。狄更斯在小說(shuō)中除了以細(xì)膩的筆墨展示了貴族的殘忍，同樣也展示了革命群眾非理性的破壞。他認(rèn)為，革命是一種壓迫取代了另一種壓迫，一場(chǎng)直接濃重的血腥暴動(dòng)替代了另外一場(chǎng)血腥。對(duì)攻占巴士底獄以及對(duì)暴動(dòng)民眾的一系列描寫(xiě)——血腥，殘忍，狡詐，惡毒是小說(shuō)最為引人注目的地方。

狄更斯把在描寫(xiě)暴民邪惡之處傾心了大量的筆墨，展示了他對(duì)暴民的痛恨，從某種層度上可以說(shuō)是對(duì)革命的痛恨。當(dāng)然，作為人道主義者的狄更斯也指出了拯救世界的良藥：愛(ài)。這種愛(ài)，體現(xiàn)在小說(shuō)中的包括親情，愛(ài)情，友情這種私人間的感情，也包括拋棄貴族，拯救蒼生的那種博愛(ài)。其中，最為出彩的是對(duì)卡頓之愛(ài)的描寫(xiě)。

我非常喜歡卡頓。實(shí)際上，卡頓就是狄更斯的化身，狄更斯正是首先想到了卡頓這個(gè)人和他身上的某種精神進(jìn)而構(gòu)思成這本小說(shuō)的。那么，卡頓是怎么樣一個(gè)人呢？小說(shuō)中描述：“太陽(yáng)悲悲切切，切切悲悲的冉冉升起，它所照見(jiàn)的景物，沒(méi)有比這個(gè)人更慘的了。他富有才華，情感高尚，卻沒(méi)有施展才華流露情感的機(jī)會(huì)，不能有所作為，也無(wú)力謀取自己的幸福。他深知自己的癥結(jié)所在，卻聽(tīng)天由命，任憑自己年復(fù)一年的虛度光陰，消耗殆盡?！?/p>

這是個(gè)自甘墮落湮沒(méi)了自己的才華和青春的年輕人，為何自甘墮落？小說(shuō)中似乎并沒(méi)有交代，自從他一出場(chǎng)就是如此，并且也沒(méi)有對(duì)他的家事背景描寫(xiě)也并不多。個(gè)人認(rèn)為，這個(gè)人代表狄更斯自己，因此他無(wú)需過(guò)多描述——卡頓的墮落，源于自己對(duì)日漸墮落的社會(huì)的失望。他走上斷頭臺(tái)前曾說(shuō)過(guò)，“我看到這個(gè)時(shí)代的邪惡，和造成這一惡果的前一時(shí)代的邪惡，逐漸為自己贖了罪而消亡?！?/p>

被自己遺棄的悲觀者——卡頓，在朋友遇到困難，在所鐘愛(ài)的女子的丈夫即將被送上斷頭臺(tái)時(shí)，他突然出現(xiàn)，被救人還不之所以的情況下，以自己的生命做代價(jià)，在緊要關(guān)頭使了個(gè)掉包計(jì)策救出了自己的所愛(ài)女子的丈夫。

這不正是基督之愛(ài)么，為自己贖了罪而消亡。事實(shí)上，小說(shuō)中的卡頓也確實(shí)以圣經(jīng)的口吻在臨死前說(shuō)，“復(fù)活在我，生命在我，信我的人，雖然死了，也必復(fù)活；凡活著信我的人，必永遠(yuǎn)不死?！边@就是狄更斯為“最壞的時(shí)代”開(kāi)出的良藥，然而這畢竟是一種理想。有人說(shuō)，《雙城記》作為一部不朽的著作，如果沒(méi)有西德尼.卡頓的存在和所作所為，這部小說(shuō)就失去了它的價(jià)值和光輝。我完全贊同。

書(shū)中的政治現(xiàn)實(shí)性：

《雙城記》的政治性是作者有意為之的。早在1854年年底，狄更斯就曾說(shuō)：“我相信，不滿情緒像這樣冒煙比大燒起來(lái)還要壞得多，這特別像法國(guó)在第一次革命爆發(fā)前的公眾心理，這就有危險(xiǎn)。由于千百種意外——如收成不好，貴族階級(jí)專橫與無(wú)能把已經(jīng)緊張的局面最后一次加緊，海外戰(zhàn)事的失利，國(guó)內(nèi)的偶然事件——變成那次以后從未見(jiàn)過(guò)的一場(chǎng)可怕的大火。”這里“冒煙”的比喻指的就是當(dāng)時(shí)同時(shí)潛伏于英國(guó)統(tǒng)治階級(jí)和下層民眾間的類似于法國(guó)大革命爆發(fā)之前的那種深刻的社會(huì)危機(jī)?！峨p城記》的寫(xiě)作，從原始意義上說(shuō)有某種借前人車(chē)鑒以儆效尤的企圖。狄更斯在自己的序言中提到卡萊爾及其《法蘭西革命》。事實(shí)上，狄更斯正是以《法蘭西革命》的描述為藍(lán)本對(duì)歷史進(jìn)行衍繹的。

從《雙城記》描繪的特權(quán)階級(jí)令人怵目驚心的殘暴中讀者可以非常迅捷地理解法國(guó)大革命的導(dǎo)因，而從《雙城記》描繪的以德發(fā)日太太為代表的勞苦大眾令人更加怵目驚心的殘暴中讀者或許可以得到更多也更深刻的啟示?！峨p城記》和《九三年》（雨果，以下引文出自鄭永慧譯本，人民文學(xué)出版社1957年版）的相通之處從這一點(diǎn)上得到了鮮明的體現(xiàn)。《九三年》的那句名言或許也正是在狄更斯心中盤(pán)桓不去的：“在王權(quán)之上，革命之上，人世的一切問(wèn)題之上，還有人心的無(wú)限仁慈?！边@樣的人道主義理念在階級(jí)與階級(jí)兵戎相見(jiàn)的現(xiàn)實(shí)面前也許是蒼白的，不值一駁的，然而以下論斷在時(shí)間的長(zhǎng)河里更是無(wú)可辯駁的：“革命的目的難道是要破壞人的天性嗎？革命難道是為了破壞家庭，為了使人道窒息嗎？絕不是的。1789年的出現(xiàn)，正是為了肯定這些崇高的現(xiàn)實(shí)，而不是為了否定它們。”（《九三年·沉思中的郭文》）

第五篇：雙城記讀書(shū)報(bào)告

《雙城記》讀書(shū)報(bào)告

《雙城記》是十九世紀(jì)英國(guó)批判現(xiàn)實(shí)主義作家狄更斯的重要著作。他是作家對(duì)當(dāng)時(shí)英國(guó)社會(huì)矛盾日益加劇的憂慮的產(chǎn)物，目的是借法國(guó)大革命的歷史經(jīng)驗(yàn)向英國(guó)統(tǒng)治者敲警鐘，因此具有明顯的借古喻今的意義。小說(shuō)深刻的表現(xiàn)了作者人道主義的進(jìn)步性和然局限性。作者通過(guò)一個(gè)受迫害的醫(yī)生的經(jīng)歷，反映了農(nóng)民被封建貴族迫害的真相。這本書(shū)的陰郁的感傷情緒、細(xì)致的人物描寫(xiě)和緊張的戲劇性情節(jié)，使得它讓人百讀不厭，從而歷來(lái)都擁有大批的讀者。

故事描寫(xiě)的年代是法國(guó)大革命的年代。這時(shí)法蘭西掀起波濤洶涌的革命大風(fēng)暴，被殘酷迫害得一貧如洗的人民拿起了武器；攻破了關(guān)押政治犯和象征封建主義的巴士底獄。這是一次資產(chǎn)階級(jí)革命，其結(jié)果是摧毀了封建主義和野蠻的專制制度，使法國(guó)以后沿著資本主義的道路發(fā)展。不但如此，它還動(dòng)搖了整個(gè)歐洲其他國(guó)家的封建制度的基礎(chǔ)；加速了這些國(guó)家的資產(chǎn)階級(jí)革命運(yùn)動(dòng)，從社會(huì)發(fā)展的觀點(diǎn)來(lái)看，這次革命是有進(jìn)步意義的。

在法國(guó)大革命以前，人民被踐踏、被侮辱、被壓榨；過(guò)著饑餓、屈辱的日子；而封建貴族則囂張、跋扈、殘忍，視人命如革芥，生活窮奢極侈，荒淫殘暴到了極點(diǎn)。封建王權(quán)腐敗到了極點(diǎn)，專制主義也達(dá)到了頂峰。為了迫害可能危及王權(quán)的分子，國(guó)王還頒發(fā)一種“密札”隨意捕人，不加審問(wèn)而長(zhǎng)期監(jiān)禁。因此，法國(guó)的封建制度在歐洲是典型的，也是特別頑固的。

法國(guó)君主專制政體在路易十四統(tǒng)治年代達(dá)到了鼎盛時(shí)期，同時(shí)也

是轉(zhuǎn)向衰落的開(kāi)始，到了路易十六繼承王位以后；波旁王朝就被滔滔的革命洪流沖垮了，國(guó)王和王后也上了斷頭臺(tái)。但是，人民群眾攻打巴士底獄的勝利，標(biāo)志著國(guó)家政權(quán)從封建統(tǒng)治階級(jí)手里向資產(chǎn)階級(jí)轉(zhuǎn)移，人民群眾完全被排除在政權(quán)機(jī)關(guān)以外，資產(chǎn)階級(jí)制憲議會(huì)竊取了全部權(quán)力。

《雙城記》的故事是具有戲劇性的，情節(jié)跌巖起伏，引人入勝。十八世紀(jì)后期，英國(guó)治安不佳，驛路盜賊橫行，官方刑律亦極嚴(yán)酷，被捕者往往被絞死、燒死。臺(tái)爾生銀行的老職員勞雷先生，把一個(gè)銀行監(jiān)護(hù)的孤女路茜·梅尼特小姐從倫敦帶到巴黎，去會(huì)見(jiàn)他那被監(jiān)禁了十八年的父親梅尼特醫(yī)生。十八年來(lái)，他無(wú)辜地被囚禁在與世隔絕的巴士底獄里，思念、絕望和酷刑，使他變得白發(fā)滿頭，精神失常，已記不清往事。路茜的母親，在她出生后兩年，也抑郁而死。

勞雷和路茜把梅尼特醫(yī)生接到倫敦，在市區(qū)幽靜的角落里定居下來(lái)，父親重操起醫(yī)生的舊業(yè)。

五年以后，一位二十五歲的法國(guó)貴族青年代爾那，被人控告犯了叛逆罪，出現(xiàn)在倫敦法庭上。當(dāng)時(shí)英國(guó)判刑極嚴(yán)，動(dòng)輒判死刑，代爾那的處境很危險(xiǎn)。但梅尼特父女的出庭作證，以及律師助手卡爾登的辯護(hù)挽救了他，結(jié)果被無(wú)罪釋放了。

卡爾登的面貌和代爾那酷似，路茜認(rèn)識(shí)了這兩個(gè)面貌相象的年輕人，而且這兩人都愛(ài)上了她。可是路茜只愛(ài)代爾那，不久就和他結(jié)婚了。結(jié)婚前夕，代爾那把自己的身世和真實(shí)姓公告訴了醫(yī)生，醫(yī)生聽(tīng)后，驚駭?shù)妹鏌o(wú)人色，原來(lái)代爾那就是當(dāng)初把他關(guān)進(jìn)巴士底獄的法國(guó)

貴族的兒子，為了女兒的愛(ài)，醫(yī)生忍下了仇恨。

路茜婚后，生活幸福，父親和他們住在一起，他們又有小路茜了。小路茜六歲時(shí)，法蘭西革命大風(fēng)暴來(lái)臨，被壓迫人民拿起武器攻破了巴士底獄。在那里，梅尼特醫(yī)生的仆人得伐石得到了醫(yī)生在獄中秘密寫(xiě)下來(lái)的文件，這文件后來(lái)成了他女婚的罪證。

代爾那老家的仆人因身為貴族管家而獲罪，關(guān)押在獄，寫(xiě)信向代爾那告急。代爾那雖然是貴族的兒子，在革命前就憎根本家族的殘暴，放棄了爵位稱號(hào)和領(lǐng)地，出走英國(guó)，以教法文為生。他明知此時(shí)回去是危險(xiǎn)的，但為了援救老仆和證實(shí)自己放棄貴族特權(quán)而毅然回國(guó)了。一到巴黎，他立即被捕，因?yàn)樗琴F族厄弗里蒙地的家族成員。為了救出代爾那，勞雷、路茜和他的父親也來(lái)到巴黎，盡管他們想方設(shè)法營(yíng)救，仍然無(wú)效。代爾那被控告為共和國(guó)的敵人、貴族“流亡者”，被判處死刑。

控告他的有三個(gè)人：梅尼特醫(yī)生從前的仆人得伐石、得伐石太太以及醫(yī)生本人。醫(yī)生堅(jiān)決表示他不會(huì)控訴自己的女婿。這時(shí)候得伐石拿出醫(yī)生在獄中寫(xiě)下的文件，當(dāng)眾宣讀，那里面敘說(shuō)了醫(yī)生被關(guān)進(jìn)監(jiān)獄十八年的原因。

十八年前的一個(gè)夜晚，他被請(qǐng)去厄弗里蒙地貴族家看病，病人之一是個(gè)被貴族搶來(lái)的年輕婦女，她有丈夫，貴族搶她是為了滿足他們的獸欲。她的雙手被捆著，發(fā)高燒，精神失常。另一個(gè)病人是她的弟弟，被貴族用劍刺傷，也快要死了。他告訴醫(yī)生事情的經(jīng)過(guò)，還有一個(gè)妹妹(就是后來(lái)的得伐石太大)，已經(jīng)送走；后來(lái)姐弟倆都死了。為

了滅口，貴族把醫(yī)生送進(jìn)監(jiān)獄，關(guān)了十八年，醫(yī)生在憤怒、苦惱的歲月中，寫(xiě)下了這份文件，他表示要控告厄弗里蒙地貴族和他們的于孫，直至他們這一家族的最后一人。

由于這份血淚的文件，貴族厄弗里蒙地的兒子代爾那被判處在二十四小時(shí)內(nèi)處死。這時(shí)卡爾登出現(xiàn)了，他利用面貌相似的特點(diǎn)混進(jìn)監(jiān)獄，用迷藥使代爾那昏倒，和他互換了衣服，叫一個(gè)預(yù)先約定的人把他抬出去。而他自己則代替代爾那受刑，履行了他過(guò)去許下的諾言。本書(shū)對(duì)于人物的描寫(xiě)、刻劃是細(xì)致和具有鮮明的個(gè)性的。

查爾斯·代爾那受到自由主義教育而對(duì)本階級(jí)不滿，他背棄了封建貴族家庭，來(lái)到英國(guó)當(dāng)了自食其力的法文教師。他不畏權(quán)勢(shì)，不趨時(shí)尚，待人誠(chéng)懇，終于以純潔的愛(ài)情和英俊的外表贏得了梅尼特醫(yī)生的女兒路茜的鐘情，兩人終成眷屬，過(guò)著和平、安逸的生活。但革命起來(lái)后，他的老管家替他受過(guò)，關(guān)進(jìn)了監(jiān)獄。代爾那接到書(shū)信，義不容辭地回到法國(guó)，但立即被捕并判處死刑，臨刑卻被卡爾登救出。在狄更斯筆下，代爾那不論在任何時(shí)間、地點(diǎn)，從任何角度來(lái)看，都是一個(gè)善良的人。

梅尼特醫(yī)生的故事在革命前的法國(guó)是有其特征意義的。他在偶爾看到貴族的專橫與殘暴后，心里產(chǎn)生了一種天真的意圖，想寫(xiě)信去向國(guó)王的大臣訴說(shuō)，結(jié)果被貴族抓起來(lái)，沒(méi)有經(jīng)過(guò)任何審訊而關(guān)進(jìn)了巴士底獄。十八年后出獄，在女兒路茜的至誠(chéng)奉養(yǎng)下，逐漸恢復(fù)了健康。他為人正直，對(duì)待朋友忠誠(chéng)，嫉惡如仇。是老知識(shí)分子中的正面人物形象。

勞雷醫(yī)生是一個(gè)老銀行家，如他自己所說(shuō)：“我把我的全部生涯，都消磨在一部巨大的賺錢(qián)機(jī)器里?！痹谝院蟮某涑⑶椴氖录?，勞雷先生急公好義，永遠(yuǎn)站在梅尼特醫(yī)生的一邊，是他的好幫手。作者通過(guò)卡爾登的口贊揚(yáng)了這位老銀行家。他說(shuō)說(shuō)：“你的生活是令人懷念的長(zhǎng)壽生活。??看到你七十八歲還怎樣盡著職責(zé)，當(dāng)你離開(kāi)人世的時(shí)候，許多人都要懷念你的?！?/p>

卡爾登是作者筆下的一個(gè)理想人物，一個(gè)高尚的人。他是“一個(gè)有才能和好性格的人，不能善自應(yīng)用，不能發(fā)揮所長(zhǎng)，獨(dú)立自主，自求幸?！?。他酗酒、墮落、自暴自棄，幫助個(gè)庸俗不堪的律師去處理案件。路茜對(duì)她父親的敬愛(ài)，激發(fā)了卡爾登悔恨過(guò)去，想要重新努力，但是意志薄弱，無(wú)從自拔。他愛(ài)上了路茵，但路茜愛(ài)的是代爾那，他們后來(lái)結(jié)了婚。然而卡爾登許下了諾言，愿意將來(lái)以他的生命來(lái)維護(hù)茜繭所愛(ài)的人的生命。最后決心犧牲自己，利用面貌與代爾那相似，代替他上了斷頭臺(tái)。狄更斯用充滿抒情的筆調(diào)，寫(xiě)下卡爾登臨刑時(shí)的感想，以及他對(duì)未來(lái)的幢保。這一段感想，可以說(shuō)是狄更斯世界觀的反映，是人道主義的極致，也是全書(shū)主旨所在。

書(shū)中對(duì)其他人物也作了描述，如巴爾塞的陰險(xiǎn)，史曲勒孚的狂妄，得伐石太太的瘋狂復(fù)仇，以及侯爵兄弟的殘暴、貪婪等，也都治人以深刻的印象。

作為懲治作惡的封建貴族，狄更斯是同情革命的。這一點(diǎn)只要看他對(duì)革命前法國(guó)貴族的憤慨就可以知道了。

在狄更斯筆下，革命前的法國(guó)人民，就象一群饑餓的被追捕的野

獸。侯爵的馬車(chē)在狹窄的街道上橫沖直撞，老百姓在馬車(chē)前驚恐逃散，一聲慘叫，一個(gè)小孩被馬踩死了，候爵就從馬車(chē)?yán)锾筋^出來(lái)問(wèn)：“你們知道你們?cè)鯓訐p傷了我的馬嗎?”然后拋出一個(gè)金幣，賠給孩子的父親，重新向后靠下，毫不在乎，好象偶然打破一件平常的東西，已經(jīng)賠過(guò)錢(qián)，足夠抵償了似的，又飛車(chē)走了。又如書(shū)中描述的主要人物梅尼特醫(yī)生的悲慘遭遇，以及他親眼目睹的被迫害的農(nóng)民一家等，這些都表明，狄更斯對(duì)封建貴族是明顯厭惡的。

但是，從《雙城記》這部小說(shuō)的客觀意義和作者就社會(huì)政治問(wèn)題所發(fā)發(fā)的意見(jiàn)來(lái)看，作者經(jīng)常處于自相矛盾中。他對(duì)資本主義制度下的英國(guó)感到不滿，但又害怕革命，擔(dān)心革命的發(fā)生，這就是狄更斯的矛盾心理。