asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of money”. He aimed at reviving by art the kind of society in which a worker could express himself freely and enjoy “work-pleasure”. Ruskin was himself fan artist, skilled in drawing and painting. When he wrote on art, he knew what he was talking about. Moreover, he wrote in a rhythmical style and his sentences are full of picturesque detail and color. All this makes him “the apostle of beauty” who helps the reader to see and appreciate the beauty of the world around him.Р2. The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution”. Had there been no Bastille, and no privileged and lawless aristocrats, there would have been no French Revolution, and likewise no story of
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