Tale of two cities who is the vengeance

The fingers of the knitting women were vicious, knowing that they could tear. Saint Antoine looked different. It had been changing into this for hundreds of years, and the final changes of the past week were evident. Madame Defarge sat observing it, with such suppressed approval as was to be desired in the leader of the Saint Antoine women. One of her sisterhood knitted beside her. The short, rather plump wife of a starved grocer, and the mother of two children withal, this lieutenant had already earned the complimentary name of The Vengeance.

Madame Defarge sat watching the neighborhood. She disguised her pleasure with it, as the leader of the women of Saint Antoine should. Another woman was knitting next to her. The short, plump wife of a thin, starving grocer and the mother of two children, she was like a lieutenant to Madame Defarge. Who comes? A rumor rushed to them like a line of gunpowder set on fire.

Defarge came in out of breath, pulled off the red cap he wore, and looked around. Everyone in the wine shop had jumped to his feet. What is it? He is among us! Her husband tries to stop it. She basically says that nothing anyone says will be able to stop her. She is so full of hatred that she is planning on wiping out the whole Evermonde family and their descendants. She will stop at nothing to avenge her family.

She represents how the lower class took vengeance on their oppressors during the revolution. So when thinking of revenge, how far would you go? This material is available only on Freebooksummary.

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. Lorry and Jerry Cruncher. Dickens uses foil characters to highlight the virtues of several major characters in order to show the theme of. At the beginning of the story, Dickens goes into great detail about how worn down and starved the people in France are because of the aristocracy.

However, after the Marquis is killed, everything changes and the people in France all become blood-thirsty killers. They are living peacefully in their England home.

Vengeance, a reckless vehicle of destruction, harms both its enactors and its victims. During the French Revolution and the time leading up to it, there are many people who hold intense grudges against others.

The peasants finally begin to fight back against the oppressive and greedy aristocracy. Madame Defarge has wanted to avenge the obliteration of her family since the day it happened. She uses the chaos as an excuse to oversee the destruction of the family that transgressed her. Sydney Carton despises himself for his lifelong unfulfilled potential. Throughout his life, he blames everything he does on his disappointing past, present, and future. When he meets Lucie Manette, he finds that his sole purpose in life is keeping her happy.

While Madame Defarge and the French revolutionaries are consumed and obliterated by a thirst for reprisal on their offenders, Sydney Carton is only imprisoned by a vicious cycle of self-punishment until he is able to forgive himself by finding his value in his devotion to Lucie Manette.