What Are The Consequences In A Tale Of Two Cities

Revenge and Its Consequences
The French Revolution was a period of political revolution from 1789 to 1799. Set in the times of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens describes the events that occur during this time period, from views of two different social classes in two different cities. For cruel and harsh treatment from the aristocracy, the peasants of France decide to enact their revenge and therefore begin the revolution. Although each person who felt that had been harmed thought that their revenge was justified, they still paid a consequence for their crimes. Charles Dickens shows the reader that revenge is never justified and has deadly consequences, as shown through the relationships of characters such as Gaspard
For years the many nobles have seen the peasants as only slaves. As stated by the Marquis, “Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof” (94). To the nobles, the peasants are only seen as animals and are believed to be less than the aristocracy. Nobles like Old Foulon, who told the peasants to eat grass while they were starving, or the Marquis, who refused to pay for the gravestone of a poor peasant woman’s deceased husband, are representative how all the nobles treated peasants heartlessly and unfairly, which ultimately lead to the peasants’ thirst for revenge. The peasants plan the revolution to finally punish the nobles for their actions and to allow themselves the revenge they feel they rightfully deserve. They begin by storming the Bastille, and commit other crimes such as burning the Marquis’ chateau, and murdering and imprisoning nobles such as the Marquis, Old Foulon, and Charles Darnay. At the start of the revolution, only nobles whose crimes against the peasants had been seen as gruesome enough, were sentenced to be sent to the Guillotine, but as the revolution came into full swing, those in charge no longer made distinction between who deserved to die and who didn’t. For committing
The Evremonde brothers both treated Madame Defarge’s family terribly. They worked her brother-in-law to death, killed her brother, raped and caused the death of her sister, and caused her father to die from grief. Losing her entire family caused her to become a heartless woman, and as Dickens says, “Such a heart Madame Defarge carried under her rough robe. Carelessly worn, it was becoming robe enough, in a certain weird way, and her dark hair looked rich under her coarse red cap. Thus accoutered, and walking with the confident woman who had habitually walked in her girlhood, bare-foot and bare-legged, on the brown sea-sand, Madame Defarge took her way along the streets” (282). The loss of her family caused Madame Defarge to become a heartless woman and inspired her to want to enact revenge on the Evremondes for their inhumanity towards her and the other peasants. Madame Defarge decides that as her revenge she want to end the entire Evremonde race and to have Charles Darnay, Dr. Manette, Lucie, and Little Lucie all murdered by the Guillotine. She is successful in imprisoning Darnay and thinks she is successful in getting him murdered but fails when the family’s friend Sydney Carton, takes his place on the Guillotine. Madame Defarge comes to the Manette’s to find the rest of the family grieving, which at