Examples Of Foreshadowing In A Tale Of Two Cities

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In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses the literary device of foreshadowing to show the turbulent times in French society that set the stage for the French Revolution. The society was divided into two different types of people, the rich and the poor. The poor had hatred for the rich and the rich had hatred for the poor. The unbalance between the upper and lower classes, which lead to a lot friction and even violence, can be seen throughout the novel. The first example is when Dickens foreshadows the bloody conflict to come when a wine cask breaks in the street and poor people of all ages come to drink the runoff in the gutter. As the poor villagers tried to take a drink, they found the street and even their clothes were stained red from …show more content…
This passage further shows the anger that is growing among the poor, indicating that violence and revenge is due to erupt. Soon after this event in the novel, the father of the dead child stabs the Marquis, killing him, and gets his revenge on the aloof aristocrat. A third way that Dickens foreshadows the chaos and turbulence of the upcoming revolution is in a description of the sea of people descending on the Bastille. As more and more people gathered to overthrow the “tyrants” at the Bastille, Dickens likened the mob and the revolution to the sea. Dickens was foreshadowing that the revolution would soon come. The novel states “The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown” (Dickens 222). The revolutionaries didn’t know what was going to come from their actions yet, but they were willing to die for their cause. Obviously, the way Dickens uses the literary device of foreshadowing to illustrate scenes of turbulence and friction between the upper and lower classes, pointed to the coming of the French

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