Justice gives people the punishment they deserve: no more and no less. For justice to exist, an impartial party and an established code of punishment must be present. The mob does not fulfill either condition during Foulon's capture or immediate execution. Furthermore, the insurgents stuff Foulon's mouth with grass as revenge for his earlier comments. Both the unjust execution and revenge show that the revolutionists are fighting for vengeance. While storming the Bastille, Jacques Three is unhappy because he learns he will not witness any violence: “Jacques Three, with his usual craving with him, and evidently disappointed by the dialogue taking a turn that did not seem to hold the promise of bloodshed, held by Defarge’s arm as he held the turnkey’s” (224). Before the French Revolution, the French peasants were powerless in
Justice gives people the punishment they deserve: no more and no less. For justice to exist, an impartial party and an established code of punishment must be present. The mob does not fulfill either condition during Foulon's capture or immediate execution. Furthermore, the insurgents stuff Foulon's mouth with grass as revenge for his earlier comments. Both the unjust execution and revenge show that the revolutionists are fighting for vengeance. While storming the Bastille, Jacques Three is unhappy because he learns he will not witness any violence: “Jacques Three, with his usual craving with him, and evidently disappointed by the dialogue taking a turn that did not seem to hold the promise of bloodshed, held by Defarge’s arm as he held the turnkey’s” (224). Before the French Revolution, the French peasants were powerless in