A character sketch of Tellson's Bank in A Tale of Two Cities

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Alice Tapsikova A Character sketch of Tellson's Bank In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens describes Tellson's Bank using the humor and satire. The Tellson's Bank, a type, which actually existed in 1780, is described by Dickens as "an old fashioned, boastful, small, dark and ugly place with musty odour"(p.51). His derogation with this bank is obvious through the whole description even when he relates staff as "the oldest men carried on bussines gravely" and …

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…or Snook Brother's might; but Tellson's, thank Heaven." (p.51) or when he says " Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience." (p.51) to support his critical ideas against the ignorance of a progress. Using satire Dicken's relieved otherwise hard and very serious story by propagation of new 'revolutionary' thinking. He actually calls people to the acceptation of progress by humor and sarcastic criticism of convective principles of synchronic society. 20/02/04