During the French revolution, the guillotine was used to behead thousands of people, when using the guillotine, these people acted like monsters and they didn’t care about anything or anyone else. Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses the guillotine to show how easily people can go on a killing spree. He shows how killing becomes emotionless and automatic, and life becomes worthless. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens alludes to ghastly objects such as the guillotine when writing about Madame Defarge which shows her true personality. Throughout the book, Madame Defarge is one of the evilest characters, she doesn’t care about anything except revenge because she is consumed in hate. Defarge is portrayed as a dark shadow
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When Darnay is taken to prison in France, Lucie’s father asks for the Defarges help, and even when Lucie begs at the feet of Madame Defarge, but she shows no remorse or sympathy. Lucie even kisses her hand, but Madame Defarge doesn't care about Lucie or her family, all she cares about is the revolution. "It was a passionate, loving, thankful, womanly action, but the hand made no response —dropped cold and heavy, and took to its knitting again." (271). When referring to Madame Defarge’s hand, Dickens alludes to the dropping of bodies during the revolution because of the guillotine. This shows how Madame Defarge's whole life revolves around the revolution, and her register, it also shows the immense contrast between Lucie and Madame Defarge. Lucie will do anything for her family, while Madame Defarge holds the revolution higher above anyone or anything, even her family. Throughout Lucie and Madame Defarge's meeting, Lucy notices something off about Madame Defarge and she feels how evil and how deadly Madame Defarge really is. '"I am not thankless, I hope, but that dreadful woman seems to throw a shadow at me and on all my hopes"'(245). Dickens' dark tone shows how Madame Defarge brings nothing but suffering and death, she is like a dark storm that destroys everyone and everything in her path. This is even worse when
When Darnay is taken to prison in France, Lucie’s father asks for the Defarges help, and even when Lucie begs at the feet of Madame Defarge, but she shows no remorse or sympathy. Lucie even kisses her hand, but Madame Defarge doesn't care about Lucie or her family, all she cares about is the revolution. "It was a passionate, loving, thankful, womanly action, but the hand made no response —dropped cold and heavy, and took to its knitting again." (271). When referring to Madame Defarge’s hand, Dickens alludes to the dropping of bodies during the revolution because of the guillotine. This shows how Madame Defarge's whole life revolves around the revolution, and her register, it also shows the immense contrast between Lucie and Madame Defarge. Lucie will do anything for her family, while Madame Defarge holds the revolution higher above anyone or anything, even her family. Throughout Lucie and Madame Defarge's meeting, Lucy notices something off about Madame Defarge and she feels how evil and how deadly Madame Defarge really is. '"I am not thankless, I hope, but that dreadful woman seems to throw a shadow at me and on all my hopes"'(245). Dickens' dark tone shows how Madame Defarge brings nothing but suffering and death, she is like a dark storm that destroys everyone and everything in her path. This is even worse when