Comic Relief in the Tale of Two Cities

Comic backup man is an important theatrical convention that makes the story more interesting and good-hearted to readers. In Charles fiends A Tale of Two Cities, hellion uses one of his minor but fascinating characters, Jerry Cruncher, to depict this. The two or three chapters dealing with Jerry Cruncher and his family life ar humourous and he in like manner illustrates the terrible poverty during the eighteenth century. And despite the novels sad fits and symbolic images, Dickens usesJerry to lighten things upa bit.Jerry Cruncher is a 4-dimensional tradesman, honest to some, but truly not, as well as a conscientious father and self-conscious individual. Jerry Cruncher can be described as gruff andragged. An odd-job man, who sits outside Tellsons Bank during the day and is a body-snatcher by night. He is also uneducated which lead him to do unnecessary actions. blushwhen describing Jerry, Dickens uses jokes. Mr.Cruncher himselfalways spoke of the year of ourLord as Anna do minos apparently under the impression that the Christian eradated from the machination of a popular game,by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. (Dickens 66) Dickens also uses the character of Jerry to illustrate the terrible poverty of life in England during the 1700s when Dickens goes more in depth or soJerry in chapter 14 called The Honest Tradesman. This was a chapterdedicated solely to Jerry Cruncher. In this chapter, the about interesting and comic scene is presented.Jerry hassuch a hard m supporting his family thathe resorts to digging up dead bodies in mystic to help make ends meet. He tries to hide this by telling his wife and son that he is going fishing, but instead he was real fishing up for bodies to sell to a surgeon. Another humorous scene in the story is how he becomes paranoid and begins to hate that his wife prays about him. He believes that she is praying against him. What do you mean by flopping yourself down and praying against me? (Dickens 67) He s ometimes snubs and beats her for doing so.He constantly calls himself an honest tradesman, even to his son. All these peculiarities of Jerry Cruncher are humorous. In conclusion, Dickens uses comic relief to appeal to his readers and change the mood. Jerry Cruncher is a perfect example of this. His life is a prototype of the poverty during 18th century. Through his characteristics, misfortunes in life, and bizarre actions, Jerry Cruncher was able to provide the reader humorous scenes rather than the chaotic and violent drama of the French Revolution.