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Victorian Era and Christianity Charles Dickens is an author who frequently drew upon his personal experiences to write. We can see obviously his personal influences in many of his works. The finest English novelist of the 19th century, his enduring characters is part of the culture. An enormously successful author and performer of his own work, he is the conscience of Victorian England. A Christian as he is, he often introduces Christian concepts in his writing. In analyzing how Christian concepts are elaborated in A tale of Two Cities, we have to start from the social atmosphere of the Victorian England and the religion background of the author, and then have a basic understanding of Christian love, sacrifice and resurrection. A. The Victorian Era and Charles DickensThe Victorian era (1832-1901) was the time when England experienced extraordinary transformations. In science and technology, the Victorians invented modern ideas which led to the breakout of the Industrial Revolution. In ideology, politics, and society, the Victorians created astonishing innovations and changes: democracy, feminism, unionization of workers, socialism, Marxism, and other modern movements. In literature and arts, it was the time that witnessed a number of great writers: the Bronte sisters, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis Carroll, Thomas DeQuincey and Charles Dickens etc. They attempted to combine Romantic emphases on self, emotion, and imagination with their own propositions in which religion was thought to be a panacea. The belief was that if everyone could receive and accept religion, morality would prevail and bring an end to crime, poverty, and all types of deviant behaviors. Although Dickens was baptized and reared in the Church of England and was a nominal Anglican for most of his life, he turned to Unitarianism and associated with Unitarians until the end of his life. Early experience with Dissenters gave him a lifelong aversion to evangelical zeal, doctrinal disputation and sectarianism. He was reticent on the subject of religion, but a letter which he wrote to the Reverend D. Macrae speaks for him, “With a deep sense of my great responsibility always upon me when I exercise my art, one of my most constant and most earnest endeavors has been to exhibit in all my good people some faint reflections of our great Master, and unostentatiously to lead the reader up to those teachings as the great source of all moral goodness. All my strongest illustrations are drawn from the New Testament; all my social abuses are shown as departures from its spirit; all my good people are humble, charitable, faithful, and forgiving. Over and over again, I claim them in express words as disciples of the Founder of our religion; but I must admit that to a man (or a woman) they all arise and wash their faces, and do not appear unto men to fast.” (As Quoted in https://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickens4.html)Dickenss religious emphasis, in his work, is indeed on the New Testament rather than on the Old, on Christ rather than on Jehovah. That is why we find great similarities between Jesus Christ and Sydney Carton, who is a selfless martyr whose death enables the happiness of his beloved and ensures his own immortality in A Tale of Two Cities.B. Basic Concepts of Christianity: Love, Sacrifice and ResurrectionRemember! - It is Christianity TO DO GOOD always - even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbor as ourself, and to do to