A Tale OF Two Cities
...ary to me, said he, that you people cannot take care of yourself and your children. … How do I know what injury you have done my horses. See! Give him that.” (Page 101). Right here Dickens shows that nobility worried more about their property and animals then about people that actually were feeding them, the peasants. Dickens is portraying throughout the book that nobility created revolution themselves by neglecting pheasants, and introducing foreign troops for their defense. In his view the revolution was the conflict between social classes. He shows that nobility at that time had powers to write their own law as they were pleased. That is the case of Dr. Mannette, who spent 18 years in Bastille because Marquise Evermonde sent him there. On the other hand he shows a fair trial of Charles Darnay in England, portraying human rights and enlightenment ideas of that time in full light. Dickens is showing nobility as tyrant and powerful social class where pheasants were equivalent to lower form of life. They were nothing to the nobility, the nobility treated them almost as a slaves. Of course economy played an important role in the revolution as well. The Nobility tried to raise taxes in order to continue living the life of riches, ball rooms and partying, where on the other side peasants were dying of starvation. In the book, before the fall of the Bastille, he shows how king fed his dogs with the best meat available on the market, and how peasants stormed inside the walls to steal the meat from animals. Right there Dickens describes best the pre-revolutionary France. Revolutionaries were guided by hate against aristocrats, and they even changed laws to accommodate killings of all aristocrats and their servants. Most revolutionaries seemed to be angry with fierce, implacable passion for revenge. In their eyes only reason and cause of their sufferings were aristocrats. Dickens portrays average peasant driven by hate in the character of Madame Defrage. She is not happy by the fact that she drove innocent men to guillotine, Charles Darnay the nephew of marquis Evermonde, but she wants to extinct the name of the family Evermonde. I...