Vengeance Vs. Justice In A Tale Of Two Cities

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” It was the age of mistreatment, It was the age of revenge. It most certainly was the epoch of confusion between vengeance and justice. The French revolution was a beacon of hope for the common people, that quickly turned into a bloodbath as the common people took the law into their own hands in order to right the Aristocrat’s wrongs. Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens emphasizes the theme vengeance vs justice by employing negative diction and incorporating the motifs blood, wine, and the color red, and duality in order to illustrate how french society masks revenge as justice during the revolution.
Dickens' use of negative diction while talking about the court emphasizes