A Mob In A Tale Of Two Cities

The neighborhood of the common people, Saint Antoine, is personified to show the universal feelings of rage the peasants feel toward the aristocracy. In the beginning, Saint Antoine is portrayed as just a physical place, but when Foulon is mentioned, it assumes the characteristics of a man. Foulon is an indifferent, awful man, who stood by and watched the commoners suffer, and mocked them by saying they should, “eat grass.” By personifying an entire neighborhood, Dickens illustrates how Foulon outraged the whole population, not just a fraction of the people. Every commoner has a personal vendetta and anger for the French nobility, and thus Saint Antoine is portrayed as one entity. The peasants hold an intense rage toward Foulon, who would make all of their lives insufferable. Foulon is not just attacked by a few commoners, he is attacked by the single entity of Saint Antoine.

They were after an honourable cause at first, the three rioters, but as soon as their eyes saw the yellow shimmer inside a bulging bag, they dropped everything and easily surrendered their minds to greed. In lines 166-169, it states, “No longer was it Death those fellows sought, for they were all so thrilled to see the

In the first chapter of A Tale of Two cities, Dickens emphasizes the fact of how bad the people lived. "It was the worst of times," due to mistreatment from the third estate. But it was also the "best of times," for the nobles, and higher class people who could actually afford things, and weren't mistreated and starved.

The gruesome image of Foulon’s mouth being stuffed with grass to the point of agony, and the repeated display of an aristocrat’s head, accurately depicted the violent nature of the revolution. These people had been tormented for years and Dickens displayed this through the violent murders they committed against their oppressors.

Madame Defarge is portrayed as the condemner of death; she lurks the corners, as she continues to knit an endless kill list of all who have exasperated her. Dickens reveals Madame Defarge’s true intentions when Monsieur Defarge mentions, “To be registered, as doomed to destruction,”(p.7). Furthermore, Monsieur Defarge declared that Madame Defarge will never forget who is on the kill list. Madame Defarge holds an undeniable grudge against Charles’ father, thus meaning that Charles poses a threat to the Defarges, due to the fact that he is guilty by association. In Madame Defarge's eyes, murder is a virtuous necessity, in order to clear out the hazardous individuals who have in any way “wronged” her.

In Book two, Dickens alludes to the storming of the Bastille prison and once again describes the mob as a sea and the Bastille, the beach being attacked by the storm. “With a roar, that sounded as if all the breath in France had been shaped into a detested word, the living sea rose, wave upon wave, depth upon depth, and overflowed the city.” Again Dickens varies his opinion of the revolutions within a single line. He starts the metaphor depicting a unified France, at on the part of the revolutionaries versus nobility. By this point, all of France was involved with or affected by the revolution. In the second part of the quote particular the very end, the word choice of “overflowed’ gives an image of excess violence. Dickens purposely used a word with negative connotations to encourage readers to examines the brutality of the French revolution. In Book three, DIckens uses similar word choice describing the “swelling” and “overflowing” of the crowd. Traditionally, swelling occurs when an overabundance of something accumulates. When one hurts themselves swelling occurs which leads to the

In this analogy, it is comparing the loss of the Clutters and how Holcomb was basically stripped of their dignity. The only way that it can be restored is through justice; justice upon those that brought harm and disturbed the community of Holcomb. Through the deaths of the entire family, emotions of the community soon became clear: that they wanted to avenge the Clutter’s deaths. After the murders, “according to the proprietor of one Garden City hardware store, ‘locks and bolts are the fastest-going item. Folks ain't particular what brand they buy; they just want them to hold.’...In almost every house, and in brightly lit rooms, fully clothed people, even entire families, who had sat the whole night wide awake, watchful, listening. Of what were they frightened? ‘It might happen again’” (Capote 88). The effects of the murder had a tremendous rippling psychological affect on townspeople, that they were scared for their lives. After seeing the gruesome deaths of the Clutters, they feared that they might share the same fate as the Clutters. This cause of hysteria only fueled for the need to bring the perpetrators to justice. After the murders of the family, many in the Holcomb community prior to the murder never needed to lock their door, now began to look an their neighbor with distrust and suspicion (Capote 5). Now not only was the community scared, they became weary. In a

This passage describes the aftereffects of Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon Clutter’s murder. As mentioned previously the family lived in the remote village of Holcomb, Kansas. Because the population was so miniscule everyone knew each other and gossip didn’t take long to spread. Before the murders life in Holcomb was quite and mundane, so you could only imagine the uproar the murders caused. The congregation became paranoid and began to suspect their neighbors as murderers.

Going with the crowd is something everyone does. Whether it is a new trend or fashion statement, people do what others do. Even back in the 1800s, this was prevalent. Charles Dickens addresses it in his books, especially Tale of Two Cities. He addresses the idea of the mob mentality in it and shows it in his characters. One of these characters is Ernst Defarge. In Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens addresses the mob mentality and going with the crowd through his character of Ernst Defarge.

Charles Dickens focuses on the revenge that put the bloody French Revolution in motion in his suspenseful story A Tale of Two Cities. The French Revolution was a revolt instigated by the peasants, who attacked the nobles with vengeful hearts starting in the year 1789, and going on until the year 1799. The settings of the book took place in both London and England, two parallels in novel, two cities where the plotting of the Revolution went into affect. Although the reasons behind the different examples of revenge are exposed, the actions taken with revenge in mind are inexcusable and not justifiable. Dickens portrays the theme of revenge successfully through the joker Gaspard, the brave younger brother who sacrificed himself to protect his

A Tale of Two Cities, a book written by Charles Dickens in 1859, describes the situation of France and the French Revolution. At the end of Chapter Six, Dr. Manette, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton, and Miss Pross are at a Tea Party. A turbulent storm occurs and incites an eerie mood within the characters. Charles Darnay starts telling a story about a paper he found. After telling the story, Dr. Manette begins to feel ill. Following this is a section which contains multiple literary elements. In Chapter Six, Dickens utilizes descriptive literary devices, such as imagery, personification, and anaphora, to foretell the French Revolution and set the mood of the passage.

The nature of mobs is a significant theme in “A Tale of Two Cities.” In both the movie and the book, mobs are portrayed as powerful. Mobs are made up of many people with the same thoughts and motives. Mobs can also be very destructive for that same reason. Dickens uses the mob mentality to depict the bloody horror and the ultimate success of the French Revolution.

In the novel "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens describes "the best of times [and] the worst of times" (1) of the characters. France and England struggle through political confusion, which is one of the most disturbing periods of history. On the other hand, for the characters of the novel, these are the times of rebirth and revival. The author conveys the dual nature of this epoch by contrasting representations of light and dark, chaos and stability, doom and hope with the use of setting, characterization, foreshadowing, symbolism, and plot set up.

The fence that holds the homeowners inside defeats the chance of them ever getting to understand the purpose of the riots that took place. The sign of warning in front of the characters home and their location shows how apartheid has intense among years of discrimination between people of any color. The mother in this passage is claimed to be a witch , although she warns the son about the “people on the street”, the rioters, which means

Madame Defarge appears to be a minor character in the beginning, but turns spiteful and deceiving in the end. Always knitting, Madame Defarge seemed to be a watchful woman: “Madame Defarge, his wife, sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in. Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age, with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large hand heavily ringed, a steady face, strong features, and great composure of manner” (Dickens 21). Of this description, one would not assume anything of the character. In the end, it is realized that the two that were killed by Charles’ uncle and father were her siblings, leaving her the remaining sibling to carry the rage and hurt left by the wrong-doings of Marquis Evremonde and his brother. She is a strong advocate for the French Revolution, as she has been knitting the names of those whom the rebels, under the name “Jacques”, planned to kill. Once it became apparent Charles was the descendant left to take the repercussions for his family, Madame Defarge plans to attack Lucie and her child due to the fact that they were associated with Charles and his family. Her plan of murder ultimately fails, and in turn, she ends up dying herself at the hand of her own bullet.