Tale Of Two Cities Diction

“All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the the wine.” In this passage, a cask of wine spills in the streets of St. Antoine. Business owners and townspeople hurry out to the street to drink the wine. Everyone gets a drink and helps each other out. The poor are united, and Dickens fears the tension between them and the rich. When the wine is spilled in the street, this highlights how poor the poor are and foreshadows the conflict associated with the French Revolution.
Dickens chooses particularly different words that help amplify what he is trying to say. He uses the word “creatures” to describe the people drinking the wine. He uses this word in particular because he wants to
He chose this word to highlight the poor, deathly condition the people are in. Along with Dickens’ special words, his unique syntax is used. In the third paragraph, he uses the phrases, “drinking of healths, shaking of hands, and even joining of hands,” instead of using, ‘doing cheers, hand shaking, and joining hands.’ This syntax does not call attention to itself, but is important because it explains Dickens’ diction. Charles Dickens chooses to include this passage about the wine spilling in the street so he can use the poor townspeople to foreshadow the conflict of the French Revolution. He first demonstrates this when he has all the poor people unite and gather to drink the wine. The people are happy and cheerful. This brings up the idea of communion bringing everyone together. Everyone came together and had a good time. In this passage, the attitude is cheery and hopeful. This is foreshadowing for people coming together in the future during the French Revolution to fight for what they believe in. The next time he foreshadows the French Revolution is when “Blood” is written in the street using the red wine, which is a symbol for actual blood.