Tale Of Two Cities Injustice Analysis

Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens portrays the effects of poverty and injustice on the French society. He shows how ordinary men and women were driven by their suffering to anger and become murderers of the aristocracy. The injustice Dickens shows results in extreme anger that led to an inevitable war between the rich and poor. Social injustice in the novel is represented through the character of the Marquis Evermonde . He shows the injustice of the ruling class of aristocrats towards the poor through many events such as tossing a coin toward the father of a child whom he has just run over, raping Mrs. Defarge’s sister and killing her brother so she loses her life and finally Dr. Manette’s imprisonment the Bastille for eighteen years …show more content…
The revolutionaries want better wages, more food, better life conditions and they want the revenge from who oppressed them, so the reasons that the French Revolution turned into a bloody one is the lack of justice that led to the extreme and destructive anger and the seeking for revenge. The revolution erupts in July 1789 with the storming of the Bastille. By 1792, the revolutionaries have taken control of France and are imprisoning and killing anyone they view as an enemy of the state and seek the Guillotine as a measure of revenge. “The grindstone had a double handle, and, turning at it madly were two men, whose faces, as their long hair flapped back when the whirlings of the grindstone brought their faces up, were more horrible and cruel than the visages of the wildest savages in their most barbarous disguise. False eyebrows and false moustaches were stuck upon them, and their hideous countenances were all bloody and sweaty, and all awry with howling, and all staring and glaring with beastly excitement and want of sleep”. (3.2.31) the revolutionaries murder aristocrats in the streets. They looted and burned chateaus throughout the countryside. The people slaughtered landlords simply because they were landlords. The people couldn`t control their anger and that led to a society that has been turned upside down and banged it on its head. Consequently, …show more content…
Despite the great danger, Darnay departs for France. When he returns to France, he observes that the noblemen are in prison, while criminals are their jailors. When he reaches Paris the revolutionaries take him to La Force prison in secret. Darnay remains in prison for a year and three months before receiving a trial. Darnay was released, but at the same night he is arrested again. When Monsieur Defarge revealed a document that he has found in Doctor Manette's former cell in the Bastille. The document reveals that Manette was imprisoned by the Evrémondes because he has witnessed their rape of a peasant girl and the murder of her brother. Darnay is brought back to prison and sentenced to