Blood, Wine, and Water
Wine, blood, and water all emphasize the horrible realities of revolution era France. They all come into play throughout “A Tale of Two Cities”, and they represent the three aspects of the revolution, and also the revolutionaries who organized and catalyzed the unjustly lauded deeds that occurred. The wine throughout the book is a precursor to blood. Towards the beginning, in the book it says, “one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD”(Dickens). Another such example is that the Defarges live and work in a wine shop. That was his profession, and it presents itself as relatively typical. However, both Defarges are eminent leaders in …show more content…
However, in the creation of Carton and Darnay, he is truly representing himself. In anyone, there can be found redemptive qualities, and for Dickens, these are represented by Charles Darnay. Darnay gives up his title as nobility, his land, and his prestige in France to become a working class British man. He also selflessly helps all those he meets and only is imprisoned while attempting to help someone. Conversely, Carton is initially portrayed as, and throughout the majority of the novel sustained as, a drunken, wasted, man. He, while sharing with Darnay in appearance, is quite a moody and unpleasant fellow. This would lead one to believe Dickens is a horrible person, however, he leaves himself an opening for redemption. One of course being that Darnay, who still represents a part of him, is a wholly ideal man. The second, is that in the end, Sydney Carton becomes a man with bravery and stoicism to rival the likes of Darnay. So in the end, Dickens is not portraying himself as a drunkard with limited redeeming qualities, but actually a quite respectable and honorable man if there ever was
Wine, blood, and water all emphasize the horrible realities of revolution era France. They all come into play throughout “A Tale of Two Cities”, and they represent the three aspects of the revolution, and also the revolutionaries who organized and catalyzed the unjustly lauded deeds that occurred. The wine throughout the book is a precursor to blood. Towards the beginning, in the book it says, “one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD”(Dickens). Another such example is that the Defarges live and work in a wine shop. That was his profession, and it presents itself as relatively typical. However, both Defarges are eminent leaders in …show more content…
However, in the creation of Carton and Darnay, he is truly representing himself. In anyone, there can be found redemptive qualities, and for Dickens, these are represented by Charles Darnay. Darnay gives up his title as nobility, his land, and his prestige in France to become a working class British man. He also selflessly helps all those he meets and only is imprisoned while attempting to help someone. Conversely, Carton is initially portrayed as, and throughout the majority of the novel sustained as, a drunken, wasted, man. He, while sharing with Darnay in appearance, is quite a moody and unpleasant fellow. This would lead one to believe Dickens is a horrible person, however, he leaves himself an opening for redemption. One of course being that Darnay, who still represents a part of him, is a wholly ideal man. The second, is that in the end, Sydney Carton becomes a man with bravery and stoicism to rival the likes of Darnay. So in the end, Dickens is not portraying himself as a drunkard with limited redeeming qualities, but actually a quite respectable and honorable man if there ever was