Symbols Flashcards
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The Woodman
The woodman symbolizes fate, chopping wood to symbolize the chopping of heads
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The Farmer
The farmer represents death
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wine
the wine represents the blood that the people will shed during the revolution
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gorgon/stone faces,
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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St. Antoine
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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jackal
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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lion
Mr. Stryver is the Lion and is called that because he takes all the credit for Cartons work
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golden thread
Lucie’s golden thread contrasts Madam Defarges thread of fate because she impacts people’s destinies positively
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scarecrows
They symbolize peasants
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birds of fine song and feathers
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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knitting
condemnation to death and wide-scale bloodshed by Madam DeFarge or her women
They seal your fate
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sea/fountains
the inhumanity of the aristocracy and now revolution, plaguing the original good intentions of the citizens to reform their government
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Madame Defarge
a symbol for the fate of others, but also is unique because she is the leader and is a woman
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The Vengeance
She just acts as the shadow of Madam Defarge, showing the DeFarge’s influence and power over the republic
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shoe bench
It is a symbol of captivity and the effects of imprisonment on the mind