How Does Madame Defarge Change In A Tale Of Two Cities

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She is a woman who is blood thirsty and she will go to great lengths to hurt the ones who have once hurt her. Madame Defarge, a brute of a women, who has been hurt by certain people in her life, holds this hurt near and dear to her heart. She is a woman who is persistence and has a fire burning in her. In A Tale of Two Cities, she creates drama and traumatic experiences for all the characters, but she has a reason for this behavior. In the start of this enchanting story, Madame Defarge is subtle and quiet. She does not get into the mix of things, but only sits and knits. Her husband seems to be doing all the work and she is just following him and the people. Soon, she begins to evolve and take shape. She begins to let her emotions play into the …show more content…

The Evremonde’s hurt her family, from raping her sister, to her brother dying for her sister’s honor, and her father dying of grief. It is easy to see why Madame Defarge would want to play a big part in over throwing the aristocracy. Even though it is at the end of the story when the reader finds this out, throughout the story the reader comes to know Madame Defarge as cold and ruthless. She becomes immoral or rather a monster when she doesn’t know when to draw the line. When meeting Lucie and the child, Lucie begs her for mercy, Madame Defarge only stares at her coldly and continues to keep knitting. She does not want to just clear the Evremonde’s name, but she will only fill closure when there is complete extermination on the Evremonde’s. Although Madame Defarge is quite the monster, she also has a reason. She lost her family because of two filthy men; these men forever left an imprint on Madame Defarge’s life. The reader can sympathize with her for losing a lot of her family, because it turns her into the monster she never planned to be. She deals with the hurt and loss of her family in a way that only she can cope

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