Madame Defarge A Tale Of Two Cities

The novel, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, is a work of historical fiction that portrays very real themes and ideas. Dickens follows the lives of various people in London and Paris during the French Revolution in which the cruel injustice of the nobility ensues the revolutionaries to take action to fight for equality. One of the most prominent themes in the novel is the fury of the French peasantry. The peasants, furious of their continuous mistreatment, no longer wished to suffer at the hands of the aristocracy, and took matters into their own hands, creating a bloodbath of war and guillotined executions. In the novel, A tale of two cities, Dickens examines the theme of the fury of the French peasantry through the character of Madame Defarge, the symbol of wine, and the event of the storming of the Bastille.
Madame Defarge clearly represents the theme of the fury of the French peasant during the revelation when she goes to great lengths just to fulfill her bloodthirsty wish for revenge. Madame Defarge doesn’t know when to stop her quest for revenge. Justice for her family, to Madame Defarge believes, not only includes the death of the Marquis, but the elimination of the Marquis’s entire family. Her vicious thirst would have lead Charles, Lucie and even little Lucie to the blade of La Guillotine. As Madame Defarge exclaims to her husband, "Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me!" (3.12.36). With these words, Madame Defarge ceases to be human. All the other characters recognize her as a sheer force of