Madame Defarge's Redemption In A Tale Of Two Cities

Many people in life turn to hope to keep them going and inspired to push forward. Without hope, people tend to have a type of behavior that drives them to get what they want and that eventually turns to violence. Charles Dickens shows how many major characters find a way to get what they were wanting with the loss of hope. In A Tale of Two Cities, the author Charles Dickens reveals the truth that spiritual lives of all people depend upon the hope of renewal through the events of Madame Defarge seeking revenge on the Evremonde family, Sydney Carton giving up his life, and the rebellion caused by peasants to illustrate the theme “Without hope, people lose what makes them human and resort to violence and cruelty.” At the beginning of the book Madame Defarge was introduced to the reader as kind of sneaky and what she says goes. She is seen knitting various times though the book, and her knitting symbolizes peoples fate. She is mentioned to be knitting the Evremonde name in her quilt and that happens to be one main characters, Charles Darnay's real last name. The text states,”..so injured by the two Evremonde brothers,as the Bastille papers describes…those dead are my dead,and that summons

In one of the chapters they are seen drinking the wine off of the dirty streets in desperate need for something to drink. But the peasants decided enough is enough and they take charge. The text states ,”The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there”(Dickens 30). The stain of wine spilled in the streets is a symbol for blood and foreshadows the revolution. The citizens are tired of being treated the way they are being treated and they begin to act out. They turn to violence as a source to get their point across that they weren't going to take it