“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know”-William Wilberforce. King Louis XVI ruled over depleted finances, he dealt with poor grain, harvests, drought, and cattle diseases and what he did to solve that problem raise high taxes that later would backfire and cause people to revolt. There are three estates the 1st estate was the one that no one could you had to be born of royal blood, the Aristocracy they had masses of wealth and land. The 2nd estate was the clergy of the Catholic Church they also had mass of land and wealth and the least of them all is the 3rd estate the peasantry estate where 97% of the population and they were poor and Illiterate, they have no voice and taxed beyond measures. The
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In A Tale of Two Cities this man wants revenge and when a matter is taken into peoples own hands they set fire to the estate. One moment in the book after the child ran over a woman hops onto the wagon and after the stop the wagon a woman pops out and asks Monsieur for money she wanted a tombstone for her husband so that he would be remembered and with being stated Monsieur drove off leaving the poor widow empty handed. Monsieur knows people are hungry, he knows people are tired of working 24/7 just to pay the taxes, he knows people have children to care for, to feed and to nurture, but he is caught up in the it is all about me and i will do whatever it takes to get what I want, when I want, and how I want it. Life is so precious, but Monsieur only cares about himself. When the wine spilled in the early chapters of book one chapter one person went crazy fighting for just one lick children, moms, dads, aunts uncles, grandmas, and grandpas would fight until every single bit of wine was gone. People’s hands stained red from the wine people's clothes stained red from being on the ground trying to get wine from the cracks. These peasants were happy with the little bit of wine they had after all the never had one. Being rich no one would of cared about spilled wine because they have so much in their nice homes that have beds to sleep on not the cold hard ground and might I add no blanket to keep them warm when it was negative something degrees out. “What will the world say when you have past, will they say you were rich in money and poor in spirit or poor in money and rich in
In A Tale of Two Cities this man wants revenge and when a matter is taken into peoples own hands they set fire to the estate. One moment in the book after the child ran over a woman hops onto the wagon and after the stop the wagon a woman pops out and asks Monsieur for money she wanted a tombstone for her husband so that he would be remembered and with being stated Monsieur drove off leaving the poor widow empty handed. Monsieur knows people are hungry, he knows people are tired of working 24/7 just to pay the taxes, he knows people have children to care for, to feed and to nurture, but he is caught up in the it is all about me and i will do whatever it takes to get what I want, when I want, and how I want it. Life is so precious, but Monsieur only cares about himself. When the wine spilled in the early chapters of book one chapter one person went crazy fighting for just one lick children, moms, dads, aunts uncles, grandmas, and grandpas would fight until every single bit of wine was gone. People’s hands stained red from the wine people's clothes stained red from being on the ground trying to get wine from the cracks. These peasants were happy with the little bit of wine they had after all the never had one. Being rich no one would of cared about spilled wine because they have so much in their nice homes that have beds to sleep on not the cold hard ground and might I add no blanket to keep them warm when it was negative something degrees out. “What will the world say when you have past, will they say you were rich in money and poor in spirit or poor in money and rich in