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    Owen and De Maupassant both write with ambiguous authorial voice to portray different aspects of the central characters. ‘The Soldier’ is a man who has gone through a dramatic‚ life changing subversion whilst ‘Madam Loisel’ One might be inclined to think that both the authors of the two short stories write to make the reader feel unsympathetic and therefore negative towards the main character of each story. Or on the other hand‚ they might both write sympathetically about each character in order

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    Chapter 1 - Five Years Later 1. In the following quotation‚ Dickens compares Tellson’s Bank with England. List the qualities‚ both positive and negative‚ that he attributes to the old bank and that he also attributes to old England. Be sure to include the bank’s position on capital punishment. “In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objectionable‚ but were

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    historical information intertwined with developed characters and actions to give a taste of how life was during the French Revolution. The historical events are embedded in the conflicts and through the characters of Marquis Evremonde‚ Doctor Manette‚ and Madame Defarge and their actions. The documents "The Progress of the Human Mind‚" the "Declaration of the Rights of Man‚" "On the Moral and Political principles of domestic policy‚" and "Reflections on the Revolution of France" are effective at accurately

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    Darney‚ Madame Defarge and Lucie Manette resemble major characters as a result of the portrayal of women. Lucie is very caring‚ loving‚ and graceful‚ as Madame Defarge is evil and villainous. Although many will view Madame Defarge as the guilty‚ and Lucie as the innocent‚ after reading and researching the following articles‚ readers could admit that these characters may not be how they seem to be as first assumed. Mangum‚ Teresa . "Dickens and the Female Terrorist: The Long Shadow of Madame Defarge

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    Dickens’ biases‚ attempts at persuasion‚ and unbelievable plot-lines‚ some of which are spawned from Dickens’ love and hate‚ and some of which love and hate are used to develop. The more lifeless of the characters we are supposed to like--the Manettes‚ Darnay‚ Lorry-- play their parts in the idyllic fashion Dickens and like-minded readers want‚ a fashion made inflexible by circumstances and purposes. "Circumstances and purposes" refers in large part to Dickens’ state of mind and objective. Dickens’

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    symbols of good and evil such as Darnay and Carton‚ Madame Defarge and Miss Pross. In his novel‚ Dickens also shows both sides of the revolution with the peasants and the aristocracy. He expresses how they are both evil although the peasants are the people who we would be accustomed to feel pity for. An example of this is when the Marquis runs over a peasant boy in the streets and only fears that his horses might have been hurt. Monsieur Defarge runs to Gaspard (the father of the child) and says “Be

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    in this novel. One of the many themes that are evident throughout the novel is man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. Furthermore‚ man’s inhumanity to his fellow man corrupts the people involved‚ such as the revolutionaries‚ the wood sawyer‚ and Madame Defarge. Man’s inhumanity to his fellow man is shown to be corrupting the revolutionaries throughout the French Revolution. The La Guillotine is a machine that beheads people during the revolution‚ and many jokes were made about it‚ such as “it was

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    The streets are bundled and clustered with people to see the final Evremonde be put to death. The crowd is brimming with adults‚ children‚ elders‚ but no Madame Defarge. A perfect victorian woman stands lost in the crowd with her beloved father‚ covered in dismay‚ too shook to commiserate her. Lucie finds it quite shocking that Madame Defarge is not at the scene‚ for she provoked her husband’s execution. There she stands with her clear‚ watery eyes‚ full of anguish‚ not ready for what she is about

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    ruthless rule of aristocrats or violent revolution of working class. Monseigheur Euremonde is a cruel nobleman. In order to get Madame Defarge’s beautiful sister‚ he seized her husband and tortured him to death‚ and killed her brother. Then extremely anger made her father die. Finally‚ the young Miss Defarge committed suicide because of humiliation and sorrow‚ and only Madame Defarge escaped by luck. When the majority of people struggled in exceeding poverty,Euremonde still exploited and oppressed them

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    meet right alongside the wealthy who remains living as they always have. CHARACTERIZATION 2. Madame Defarge makes an excellent symbol for the French Revolution because she represents the attitude of the French Peasants-turned-revolutionaries. Like the peasant’s‚ she has suffered greatly at the hands of the aristocrats. Specifically the Evrémondes‚ to who Charles Darnay is related by blood‚ and Lucie by marriage. She has seen her family destroyed and lived in poverty. She wishes to live in a world

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