Tale of Two Cities Tone Analysis of the “Monseigneur in Town” chapter.
...s being sarcastic. His dislike for the injustice of the nobles’ lives shows when the “sacred presence” is being served chocolate while the peasants are starving, while a truly sacred person would help out the peasants. According to Dickens, however, the Monseigneur thought that helping the peasants is not noble behavior. The Monseigneur, in no possible way, can have his chocolate “ignobly” served by only three men; he has to have four. Dickens tries to show the readers that Monseigneur is spoiled and arrogant to the point that he absolutely must have four men to serve something as insignificant as chocolate. With this word, Dickens says that the spoiled, arrogant Monseigneur’s habits are the norm for nobles because anything less would be “ignoble.” Dickens, placing such a huge influence on starvation earlier in the ...