It was the best of times it was the worst of times does "uses ?

Explain how lines 1-3 establish the speaker as an individual but also as a representative for all others.

Hamlet: ] it will but skin and film the ulcerous place, whiles rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen. confess yourself to heaven; repent what’s past; avoid what is to come; and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker. —hamlet, william shakespeare what is the central motif in the passage? the passage of time madness disease and decay gardening

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?