Charles Dickens ' A Tale Of Two Cities

Madame Defarge’s anger is generated because of the fact that her sister was raped and her brother was killed. The crimes committed against her family have little to do with helping the people even though she doesn't want to admit it. She feels the only way to relieve herself of this hatred is to kill all of them. “ my husband has not my reason for pursuing this family to annihilation, and I have not this reason for regarding this doctor with any sensibility. I must act for myself therefore” (Dickens 424). Madame Defarge explains that her anger is strictly taken out on the Evremonde family and no one else. The issue she has with the Evremonde family is

Justice is one of the main theme from this book, as each character tries to get justice. In this book we see the distress and agony that Madame Defarge suffers with. Mainly because of her sister’s deaths and family suffering, due to the Evremonde brother’s, Charles Darnay’s father and uncle. Ever since that happened she’s wanted justice for her and her family. The justice that Madame Defarge wanted later turn into retribution, which lead her to a path of darkness, making her wanting the death of Charles Darnay and his family. At the same time, she was fighting for justice for France, which made her want more lives to be dead for the good of her people. those dead are my dead, and that summons to answer for those things descends to me!’… “Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop,” … “but don’t tell me.” (Dickens 339) Many readers might portray her as the “villain” of this book, but she really is not. All she wanted is justice for what was done

Defarge begins the book as a protagonist. His struggle against the second estate is one the reader can sympathize with. In fact, Defarge is first introduced in the context of combat against the aristocracy. The Marquis’s carriage hits a young child. While the Marquis is trying to smooth the situation over, he throws a coin to Defarge. Rather than accepting the bribe, Defarge throws the coin back at the carriage. That act of defiance characterizes his attitude towards the aristocracy, and establishes his primary motivation throughout the remainder of the book.

Throughout the entire novel, one is introduced to characters and how their past dramatically affects the people they are now. When we first meet Madame Defarge she was busily knitting away, seemingly feminine and harmless. According to Dicks, she “knitted with nimble fingers and steady eyebrows, and saw nothing” (Dickens 42), depicting a submissive wife who did not take interest in political or social issues. As her character develops, however, the reader learns she is deeply involved in the plot due to the injustice served to her family in the past. Madame Defarge’s knitting serves both the Revolutionaries’ goal and her personal vendetta against the aristocrats, more specifically the Evrémonde brothers (Wilson 374). Her seemingly harmless

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When the reader learns more about Madame Defarge's past, they have already seen her as a ruthless vengeful monster. Therefore it is hard for the reader to sympathize with her because of all the cold and dreadful things that she has committed. You see this very clearly in the scene where Lucie Manette goes to beg Madame Defarge. “As a wife and mother,” cried Lucie, most earnestly, “I implore you to have pity on me.” (Dickens ). Madame Defarge just looks coldly at Lucie and just continues

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In Charles Dickens’s historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities, set prior to and during the French Revolution, Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay look almost identical and even share a few characteristics, such as their love for one Lucie Manette and their being orphans, but overall they are opposites of each other. The former is an alcoholic, aimless man, while the latter is more ambitious. Despite these similarities and obvious differences, Sydney Carton’s foil is not Charles Darnay, but rather Madame Defarge, the wife of a wine-shop owner in Saint Antoine, a suburb outside of Paris. Like Carton and Darnay, the two share similarities and differences. While Sydney Carton and Madame Defarge share the ability to go unnoticed while taking charge

She is also one of the biggest advocates and allies of the revolutionary cause. Madame Defarge is loyal to the revolutionary cause above all else. She is an old friend of Dr. Manette, due to her her husband’s previous employment under him. Based on these alliances, Madame Defarge is on the protagonist side of the conflict involving the common person vs. the aristocracy. Her loyalty to her allies is unrivaled, but only when it benefits herself. Her self-serving bias is apparent when she knits Darnay’s name into her list, knowing he is the son-in-law of Dr. Manette. While Madame Defarge has her fair share of allies, she shows no mercy to those who represent the enemy of the revolution and will not hesitate to take action. When informed of Darnay’s relation to an aristocrat, she responded, “Her husband’s destiny, will take him where he is to go, and will lead him to the end that is to end him. That is all I know” (Dickens 325). The mystery begins to build up around her character and her quiet work in the background as she was “knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads” (Dickens

Characterization of Madame Defarge Madame Defarge would be considered the antagonist in the book “Tale of Two CIties” by Charles Dickens. She is the true definition of ruthless and hateful, there are many demonstrations to prove this in the book. This story takes place 1780s around time of the french revolution, which helps me to explain why i’m characterizing Madame Defarge as Ruthless and Hateful and it helps me explain why she became the person that she is in the book. To understand the character Madame Defarge you have to first understand her background , then i’ll explain her ideal vision in life period which is a destructive future where all of authority and ones who sympathizes with them fall everyone including children. Madame Defarge’s

Although a time of tremendous social upheaval unfolded, the aimless revolution achieved little. Instead of an organized force, the mob lashed out as an anarchic crowd that pinned all their problems on individuals. A perpetrator of this fault, Madame Defarge, attributes much of her anger to her family’s deaths at the hands of a noble. As she describes why she feels so strongly, she cries out “Those dead are my dead, and that summons to answer for those things descends to me!” (354). As a vicious proponent and power holder of the revolution, Madame Defarge obtains the ability to lead her followers to achieve their goal. However, due to to her feelings of mistreatment, she focuses on inflicting as much damage to the Evremonde family, although the exact members who caused her family much aggrievement no longer live. Despite her ability to achieve equality for the Third Estate, she decides to squander her power throught the immense infliction of bloodshed. Likewise, a poor man, Gaspard, takes similar actions on the nobleman who killed his son.AFter MArquis Evremonde’s murder, villagers find him with a note: “Drive him fast to his tomb. This from Jacques” (134). The killing of the nobleman who killed his son relieved the anger Gaspard felt, but led to his execution, administering him useless toward the revolution. Similarly, in the

Madame DeFarge is the archetype of the unscrupulous and wicked revolutionary. She is motivated by hate and vengeance for what Charles's father

In Book the First, Dickens only casually mentions knitting when describing Madame Defarge. As he describes her he states, “Her knitting was before her . . .” (24). It is not revealed why until later chapters, but is only stated now that she spends all her time knitting. The reader only realizes later what she is really doing, and how barbaric is it that this is how Madame Defarge spends all of her time, premeditating the murder of thousands. In Book the Second, Dickens reveals Madame Defarge’s pastime. Her husband declares, “Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun” (132). Monsieur Defarge is referring to the register his wife spends all her time knitting, which is a list of all those who have committed crimes against the peasants of France and their families, and who are to die in the revolution. It is the “hit list” of the revolutionaries. It is a system to make sure everyone who “deserves punishment” receives it. However, it makes no distinction between the innocent and the guilty. This is apparent in Book the Third, when Dickens describes the death of the seamstress. He writes, “She goes next before him—is gone; the knitting women count Twenty-Two” (292). In this scene, the innocent seamstress meets her death at the hands of the guillotine on no other account than suspicion. She is only one of the many innocents who dies for no cause and cannot escape the revolutionaries’ killing machine. During all these unjust executions, the French revolutionary women casually knit on the sideline, planning more deaths. This is the most horrid development of the theme of inhumanity yet. As the peasants move through their organized revolution, they carry out the deaths they had planned, and move to killing

Dickens characterizes Madame Defarge as “absolutely without pity” to where it “was nothing to her that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers”(281). She has no qualms about killing an innocent man, and she cannot see the man for

Madame Defarge is revengeful and feels hatred towards aristocrats because her family was killed by aristocrats when she was young. As a result, she knits the names of many aristocratic families, sentencing them to death. The names of the people that are to be killed by the revolutionaries are “Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols” (179). Moreover, Madame Defarge is an influential figure and a strong leader who encourages the female revolutionaries to fight alongside the men. During the storming of Bastille, Madame Defarge cries out to a group of women, “To me women!… We can kill as well as the men when the place is taken!” and leads them on to the Bastille