The French revolution was a huge part of world history. Many people have tried to find the motive behind the revolution. “The French Revolution was, in it’s time, the most frightening inspiring, threatening, exhilarating, volcanic, horric, uplighting, unimaginable, portentous, appalling, implausible, imponderable event in the remembered history of the world” (Newlin 13). There are a lot of things that could have started the French revolution. Human’s natural attraction to blood and lust was a huge part if not the main part. Dickens proves the driving force of the French revolution was human’s natural attraction to blood – lust as seen in Madam Defarge, the mob, and the worship of the guillotine.
Dickens shows that the revolution could have been avoided but human’s natural attraction to blood made the revolution into something that was devastating but didn’t have to be. Anger seems to have drove the revolution to a state of pointlessness. There was many things that lead up and sparked the revolution but it was all human error and it could have been avoided.
Madame Defarge was very vengeful and blood-thirsty. She had been hurt by the aristocracy, and she blamed them for her brother’s death. She spent a lot …show more content…
Dickens uses mobs to show the blood and violence. A child was run over by Evremonde’s cart for no reason. This showed that the noble people have no consideration for the youth. The people could not do anything to prevent these kind of deaths. This created the hate and violence and feelings of helplessness. Mobs were created from these people. These mobs could have been the ones to eventually cause the French Revolution. The mobs were very violent. There are some situations where wine is used to show how bloody the revolution would become. When a wine barrel spills, Dickens wrote “The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there."
Dickens shows that the revolution could have been avoided but human’s natural attraction to blood made the revolution into something that was devastating but didn’t have to be. Anger seems to have drove the revolution to a state of pointlessness. There was many things that lead up and sparked the revolution but it was all human error and it could have been avoided.
Madame Defarge was very vengeful and blood-thirsty. She had been hurt by the aristocracy, and she blamed them for her brother’s death. She spent a lot …show more content…
Dickens uses mobs to show the blood and violence. A child was run over by Evremonde’s cart for no reason. This showed that the noble people have no consideration for the youth. The people could not do anything to prevent these kind of deaths. This created the hate and violence and feelings of helplessness. Mobs were created from these people. These mobs could have been the ones to eventually cause the French Revolution. The mobs were very violent. There are some situations where wine is used to show how bloody the revolution would become. When a wine barrel spills, Dickens wrote “The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there."