Peasantry In A Tale Of Two Cities

The situations of the peasantry in London and France are like a virus, it keeps getting worse until it it is healed from within, just like in a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens . The peasant's lives’ keep getting worse and worse while the lives of the aristocracy get better, due to their taxation of the poor. This causes great strife and eventually makes the peasants fix their problems by taking matters into their own hands . With his portrayal of the poor , Dickens suggests that they have become that way because of oppression. (This paragraph is about the gap itself). There is no bridge between the upper and lower classes during A Tale of Two Cities, instead there is a moat. In other words, there is almost no possible way for a peasant to become rich or an aristocrat to become poor. In fact the
An example of this would be when they found out that Foulon had been captured, “his head was soon upon a pike, with grass enough in the mouth for all Saint Antoine to dance at the sight of” (270). This shows the anger, that has been steadily building up, of the peasants. They had given Foulon a taste of his own medicine. In another example, the peasants storm the Bastille, and put the heads of 7 guards and the governor, on pikes, showing how far the peasants are willing to go, to show revenge. In another case, the Monseigneur’s carriage had driven over a man’s child. So the man went to the Monseigneur’s chateau to kill him and there he left the note, "drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques”(125). A more extreme case of violence was when the peasants decided to start mass executing prisoners who were aristocrats. Most of these aristocrats hadn’t actually done anything wrong and weren’t even given trials. This is because the peasants believed that “death is Nature's remedy for all things” (59). (add