Madame Defarge Quotes

While pursuing revenge, it is said to start digging a grave along with the grave of the person being avenged. In Book 3, Chapter 14 of A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge reaped that which she sowed. It was made evident that concerning Madame Defarge, the revolution in France is in fact just a euphemism for the revenge she wants to execute against the Marquis Evremonde. She adopted compensating that which the Marquis stole from her, which was all her living relatives, as her personal mission. Despite achieving her goal of capturing Charles Darnay, and having him sentenced to death by the guillotine, she is still not satisfied. Madame Defarge goes in search of Lucie, Darnay's wife, in hopes of catching her in the act of lamenting for a prisoner.
One of the more immediate causes of the French Revolution is the discontent of the third estate on the lack of goods to sustain their basic human rights whilst the upper class live extravagant, lavish lifestyles. The Defarges play a principal role in A Tale of Two Cities during the uprising, and assisted in moving it along. Hence, Madame Defarge believes that she is now of higher standing. This is made evident in her condescending tone; she refers to Lucie, and her family like a queen would beckon her subjects, who serve no other purpose than to obey her every
Instead of being satisfied with what she had already achieved, she drove it further, and by going after Darnay's family she dug her own grave. The conflict between the two women is ended with one shooting the other, but we are unsure of who has been shot. All throughout the brawl, there is anticipation created, leaving the reader unsure of how the scene would pan out. As it is revealed by Miss Pross that “[a gun] is under [her] arm,” Dickens foreshadows the death of one of the two women. Miss Pross herself even says it declaring “one or the other of us,”(382) will be killed by the other. Madame Defarge reaches for the pistol located at Miss Pross’s side and the gun is shot. Instead of just naming the woman who'd been killed by the other, he describes the smoke from the gun clearing, “leaving an awful stillness, it passed the air like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay on the ground”(383). Any person who had read the book up until that point understood who was dead. Madame Defarge's bitterness had been incorporated into her character and had caught up to