Dickens portrays the rich as malicious, whilst portraying those in poverty as anguished. Dickens shows terrible things exclusively to the poor; to show why the Revolution is necessary. After a reception in …show more content…
Defarge's wine shop, and streets surrounding it became crowded with incensed people with all types of weapons. Monsieur Marquis and “his man drove as if he were an enemy…. with a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days… women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way… there was a loud cry from a number of voices…” (Dickens 115). This accurately shows how vexed, desperate, and irate commoners were at the aristocracy (Marquis, in this case). All of a sudden, the carriage is put to a holt as a “tall man in a nightcap has caught a bundle from among the feet of the horses, and had laid it in the basement of the fountain,... howling over it like a wild animal” (Dickens 115). Then, Marquis reacts by saying, “ ‘Why does he make that abominable noise? Is it his child?” (Dickens 115), with the reply from the mortified man, “Excuse me, Monsieur the Marquis- it is a pity- yes” (Dickens 115). After that point, Marquis shoots the man a glare of disgust and tosses him a