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English A Tale of Two Cities Final Prep > Symbols > Flashcards

Symbols Flashcards

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
The Woodman

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The woodman symbolizes fate, chopping wood to symbolize the chopping of heads

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
The Farmer

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The farmer represents death

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
wine

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the wine represents the blood that the people will shed during the revolution

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
gorgon/stone faces,

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The gorgon is used as a foreshadowing tool for the reader to infer that the Marquis will die (Gorgon turned people to stone in greek mythology)

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
St. Antoine

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By personifying St. Antoine, Dickens illustrates the desire for change and revolution through one person as if the city is thinking as a whole

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
jackal

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Sydney Carton is the Jackal and is named it because it is his intellectual prowess that boosts Stryvers’ work, referencing how the Jackal helps the lion kill, but the lion gets all the credit

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
lion

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Mr. Stryver is the Lion and is called that because he takes all the credit for Cartons work

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
golden thread

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Lucie’s golden thread contrasts Madam Defarges thread of fate because she impacts people’s destinies positively

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
scarecrows

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They symbolize peasants

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
birds of fine song and feathers

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The birds of fine song and feather are the aristocracy
in their perfect world unconcerned for the terrible conditions of the peasants world

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
knitting

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condemnation to death and wide-scale bloodshed by Madam DeFarge or her women
They seal your fate

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
sea/fountains

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the inhumanity of the aristocracy and now revolution, plaguing the original good intentions of the citizens to reform their government

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
Madame Defarge

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a symbol for the fate of others, but also is unique because she is the leader and is a woman

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
The Vengeance

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She just acts as the shadow of Madam Defarge, showing the DeFarge’s influence and power over the republic

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
shoe bench

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It is a symbol of captivity and the effects of imprisonment on the mind

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16
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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
fire

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The rapid spread of the revolution: like a fire

17
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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
fountain

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The inhumanity of the aristocracy towards the peasants

18
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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
blue flies

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symbolize London’s citizens, their thirst for human suffering, and their reliance on others’ pain
They want to see people condemned to death, and consider it a show

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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
grindstone

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It is a place where the people are coming to sharpen their blades, but it is also a symbol of all the blood that has been spilled.
The grindstone scene is meant to symbolize the point where the revolution has become the tyranny they were trying to get rid of

20
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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
footsteps/echoes

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fate

21
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What is the meaning/ significance of this symbol:
shadows

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they create a mood of thick obscurity and grave foreboding/ an aura of gloom and apprehension

English A Tale of Two Cities Final Prep (5 decks)

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