In the fifth chapter of Book I of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the scene in which a cask of wine is dropped and broken foreshadows a bloody and chaotic riot. The upcoming bloodshed is heavily foreshadowed through the attention drawn to the details of the scene that resemble blood. For example, the wine “was red wine… was spilled… It had stained many” (Dickens 36). The details chosen to describe the wine are also often used to describe blood, thereby demonstrating that the win represents blood. Furthermore, the use of the words spilled and stained indicate that a lot of bloodshed is to come since it is implied that the blood will stain many. Details used to describe the people after drinking the win also evoke thoughts of bloodthirsty
