Shereen Haji
Ms. Drinan
Honors English 9-1
26 April 2016
Unjustifiable Revenge
The French Revolution captures the tension between the harsh lives of the peasants and the idealized, carefree aristocracy during the late eighteenth century. A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, is a Victorian novel that deeply focuses on events in two cities, Paris and London, proceeding and throughout the French Revolution. The full concept of the French Revolution is driven by revenge in which the desolate peasants want to take back what is rightfully theirs and avenge the sins of the nobles. The poverty stricken living conditions and impoverished financial situation in France compel the peasants to act violently for the immense strive for revenge …show more content…
Dickens depicts how merciless this revolutionary is against the aristocratic family: “For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time in my register, doomed to destruction and extermination” (264). For a long time, Madame Defarge has had the Evremonde race knitted into her register, a list of aristocrats condemned to death by the revolutionaries. Through her ruthless words, Dickens proves how vengeful and dedicated Madame Defarge is by the way she speaks of killing innocent people for the sins of their family. There is not a pinch of compassion in her words nor does she have the slightest sense of remorse. Instead, she will do everything it takes to avenge the death of her family, even if it involves plotting against her own husband. Dickens captures her powerful words, “‘In a word,’ said Madame Defarge, coming out of her short abstraction, ‘I cannot trust my husband in this matter. Not only do I feel, since last night, that I dare not confide to him the details of my projects; but also feel that if I delay, there is danger of his giving warning, and then they might escape’” (279). It is proven through her words and actions in A Tale of Two Cities that this revolutionary will go to extreme extents even at the cost of other revolutionaries to fulfil her
Ms. Drinan
Honors English 9-1
26 April 2016
Unjustifiable Revenge
The French Revolution captures the tension between the harsh lives of the peasants and the idealized, carefree aristocracy during the late eighteenth century. A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, is a Victorian novel that deeply focuses on events in two cities, Paris and London, proceeding and throughout the French Revolution. The full concept of the French Revolution is driven by revenge in which the desolate peasants want to take back what is rightfully theirs and avenge the sins of the nobles. The poverty stricken living conditions and impoverished financial situation in France compel the peasants to act violently for the immense strive for revenge …show more content…
Dickens depicts how merciless this revolutionary is against the aristocratic family: “For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time in my register, doomed to destruction and extermination” (264). For a long time, Madame Defarge has had the Evremonde race knitted into her register, a list of aristocrats condemned to death by the revolutionaries. Through her ruthless words, Dickens proves how vengeful and dedicated Madame Defarge is by the way she speaks of killing innocent people for the sins of their family. There is not a pinch of compassion in her words nor does she have the slightest sense of remorse. Instead, she will do everything it takes to avenge the death of her family, even if it involves plotting against her own husband. Dickens captures her powerful words, “‘In a word,’ said Madame Defarge, coming out of her short abstraction, ‘I cannot trust my husband in this matter. Not only do I feel, since last night, that I dare not confide to him the details of my projects; but also feel that if I delay, there is danger of his giving warning, and then they might escape’” (279). It is proven through her words and actions in A Tale of Two Cities that this revolutionary will go to extreme extents even at the cost of other revolutionaries to fulfil her