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Essay / Essay Tale Of Two Cities - 936
Dickens uses different scenarios to place the revolution in a different perspective and influence the readers' emotions towards the devastated nobles. The new form of government led by the rebels is deceptive and rigged, and under its rule, new unjust laws are constantly passed and innocent people are arrested. Dickens shows that the new rulers are just as brutal and cold as the old aristocracy. The peasants are so caught up in revenge that we cannot stop and make peace. “Defarge, a small minority, interposed a few words in memory of the compassionate wife of the marquis; but only provoked in his wife a repetition of his last response: 'Tell the wind and the fire where to stop, not me'” (265). Madame Defarge's hatred towards the Evrémonde family is just like the hatred of the peasant class towards the aristocrats; it enveloped their souls. Peasants today are just as brutal and inhumane to their fellow men as the nobles were before them. The innocent seamstress is a perfect example of how the revolutionaries have gone too far: “I am not afraid of dying, citizen Evrémode, but I have done nothing. I do not refuse to die, if the Republic, which must do so much good to us poor people, wants to benefit from my death; but I don't know how that can be, citizen Evrémonde. Such a poor, weak little creature”