What Does Madame Defarge Symbolize

1. Wine symbols a luxury, that not many have. Only aristocrats or those who had the extra money to spare were able to drink such extravagance. Wine was many of the things unavailable to peasants. The red wine also symbolizes the blood of the revolution. When the wine was dropped in front of the wine shop all the peasants ran to drink it from the ground.”The wine was red and had stained the ground...It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes.”(p.27.) ”The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled the street-stones,and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.”(p.27.)
2. Madame Defarge and Miss Pross represented two strong symbols. Madame Defarge was a ruthless woman, overtaken

France. Two strong countries who loathe each other much like Miss Pross and Madame Defarge.
3. Madame Defarge symbolized a revengeful killer. She represented a human guillotine with her bloodthirst and being the first to decapitate a man.”..was so close to him when he dropped dead under it, and with her cruel knife-long ready-hewed off his head.”(p.209.) The Furies were also three woman, the endless, the punishment, and the jealous rage. They are said to punish only those guilty and sinful with no sympathy but disregard the innocent. Madame Defarge represents the endless furie. Madame Defarge was unstoppable,”Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop,but don't tell me.”(p.326)
4. Knitting in the story symbolized fate. Madame Defarge played a key role with the knitting along with The Vengeance and another knitting-woman. Madame Defarge would knit the name of those whose life would end or their destiny was to come. She and the other woman symbolize The Fate. The fates were three women who controlled the lives of people with only a single thread. Madame Defarge and her sisterhood would sit at the beheadings and watch while knitting.”So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting,knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting,knitting,counting dropping heads.”(p.177)Their threads were the lives of

Sydney Carton symbolizes a form of Jesus Christ and also courage and bravery. Sydney Carton, a man filled with darkness, found his light through Lucie Manette. He was unable to live his life with his light but he could fulfill his promise to her by sacrificing himself.” Are you dying for him?”she whispered.”And his wife and child. Hush! Yes.”(p.339.) By sacrificing himself, Carton finally excepted all the wrongdoings in his life, and found peace.”They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man’s face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.”(p.359.) Like Christ, before he was killed he repeats “ I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”(p.359.) Carton is also referred to by the seamstress and being sent to her from Heaven.(p.358.) Carton is the savior at the end of the book, for both the seamstress and Darnay and his