摘要
 
  狄更斯是维多利亚时期英国著名的批判现实主义小说家，“仁爱思想”贯穿了他文学创作的始终，其中以双城记最具有代表性。本文就《双城记》中人物角色所表现出来的革命性、现实主义以及宗教观念作探析，从而剖析小说所表现的主题价值意义。分析这样的主题有助于理解用仁爱和宽恕的精神来化解仇恨，改变那些被扭曲的心灵的深层含义。

关键词：狄更斯  仁爱主题  批判现实主义  宗教                                   

Abstract

  Charles Dickens is the greatest representative writer of English critical realism in the Victorian period. From beginning to end, benevolence always comes with his production of literary, and the A Tale of Two Cities is the most representative. This paper dissects the value of this theme by analyzing revolution, realism and the concept of religion. Analysis of this theme not only helps to understand benevolence and forgiveness, but also may change those twisted hearts.

Key words:  Charles Dickens, benevolence, critical realism, religion

1. Introduction
1.1 A brief introduction to Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens is generally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
    The defining moment of Dickens's life occurred when he was 12 years old. With his father in debtors' prison, he was withdrawn from school and forced to work in a factory. This deeply affected the sensitive boy. Though he returned to school at 13, his formal education ended at 15. As a young man, he worked as a reporter. His fiction career began with short pieces reprinted as Sketches by “Boz” (1836). He exhibited a great ability to spin a story in an entertaining manner and this quality, combined with the serialization of his comic novel The Pickwick Papers (1837), made him the most popular English author of his time. The serialization of such works as Oliver Twist (1838) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) followed. After a trip to America, he wrote A Christmas Carol (1843) in a few weeks. With Dombey and Son (1848), his novels began to express a heightened uneasiness about the evils of Victorian industrial society, which intensified in the semiautobiographical David Copperfield (1850), as well as in Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), Great Expectations (1861), and others. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) appeared in the period when he achieved great popularity for his public readings. Dickens's works are characterized by an encyclopaedic knowledge of London, pathos, a vein of the macabre, a pervasive spirit of benevolence and geniality, inexhaustible powers of character creation, an acute ear for characteristic speech, and a highly individual and inventive prose style.