Compare And Contrast Monseigneur And Marquis

Life in the eighteenth century was both in imaginatively delightful and the epitome of brutal depending on the quantity of coins weighing down in each pocket.. People consumed with good fortune used their money for only the best and often most unneeded forms of entertainment without even thinking of the poor people dying only a few miles away. Peasants lived hard lives wishing for better days filled with, or at least scarcely occupied with, food for themselves and their young or alternate reality where they could live in peace without the fear of dying from starvation. Monseigneur and Monsieur the Marquis were two men of astonishing wealth and assertiveness who pushed their economic level and superiority to the very limit of being called pure evil; on the flip side of the coin, Defarge and the community he lived in, …show more content…
Monseigneur used his prosperity to fashion himself a lifestyle of indulgence in even the most of unnecessary ways, such as having four men feed him chocolate. Each man dressed in fancy expensive clothing and had a specific job to assist Monseigneur in the drinking of his chocolate; the first of the men carried the pot of chocolate, second one mixed chocolate in the pot, the third gave Monseigneur his napkin, and the fourth man would pour the chocolate out. Every two weeks Monseigneur also hosted a sumptuous social function in a grand hotel in Paris. This used up much of Monseigneur's money, but he liked acting wealthy, so he continued. Monseigneur was not only a member of the aristocracy, but also represented the aristocracy's extravagant standards of living. As derived from Monseigneur's way of life it is confirmed that the opulent lives of nobles in France were built around what pleasures their heart desired, instead of what was needed to be done throughout the country to stop weak, desperate bodies from dropping to the floor,