Answer the following questions from A tale of two cities:
1) Why do you think Gaspard wrote the word 'blood' on the wall? Why did Defarge suggest that he should write it somewhere else?
2) What kind of people were Monsieur and Madam Defarge? Give examples from the story to support your answer.
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2). Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a ringleader of the tricoteuses, a tireless worker for the French Revolution, and the wife of Ernest Defarge.
Some historians have suggested that Dickens based Defarge on Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Mericourt, a revolutionary who played a key role in street demonstrations.
She is one of the main villains of the novel, obsessed with revenge against the Evrémondes. She ruthlessly pursues this goal against Charles Darnay, his wife, Lucie Manette, and their child, for crimes a prior generation of the Evrémonde family had committed. These include the deaths of her nephew, sister, brother, father and brother-in-law. She refuses to accept the reality that Charles Darnay changed his ways by intending to renounce his title to the lands to give them to the peasants who worked on them.
1). A man writes 'blood' on the wall in Book the First/ Chapter 5. A wine cask has fallen into the street and broken in the town of Saint Antoine (near Paris). The residents there are destitute and hungry, men are scooping the liquid up into the palms of their hands to drink it, whereas the women are soaking their handkerchiefs the best they can and squeezing the liquid back into the mouths of their children.
In this scene we see the devastation of a people and experience their suffering. The spilt wine their stains their faces, hands and clothing foreshadows the 'blood' to come, as does the word scrawled on the wall. Violence is coming, and the word blood is symbolic of that violence
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