Irony A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens beautifully incorporates the use of many literary devices, irony, allusions, tone, point of view, and many others. He develops the story around a young French woman, Lucie Manette, who has just found her father, Dr. Manette. Dickens uses situations around Lucie and her Father, to integrate the device of irony, which in some cases just turns out to be coincidence. So many times irony is confused with coincidence, to illustrate the difference here …

…it was used in the condemnation of his only daughter's husband, which was of the house of Evremonde. Ironic isn't it? Irony and coincidence, which ever was implied in a specific situation, were masterfully integrated in the work of Charles Dickens. Through characters and settings, from Mr. Lorry, to Miss Manette, from France and England to the Bastille, the irony and coincidence is beautiful. Sometimes what seems to be irony may only be a coincidence.