A Tale of Two Cities: resumen de Chapter 1

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1. The narrator describes an age of opposing extremes and introduces the confident monarchs of England and France.
2. English prophecies and ghost stories contrast with messages from British subjects in America, which the narrator calls more important.
3. France spends printed money and executes a youth for failing to kneel before a religious procession.
4. Fate and Death silently prepare timber and carts associated with revolutionary violence.
5. England experiences robberies, prison battles, armed clashes, and punishments that make little distinction between serious and minor crimes.
6. The monarchs continue exercising their authority while unnoticed forces of change surround them.

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