Dickens paints a picture of an ambivalent age, simultaneously the "best of times" and the "worst of times." Life proceeds in both France and England as if there would never be any change. Both France and England have a cruel sense of justice but England, unlike the more repressive France, is suffering under a great deal of criminal disorder......
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