Tale Of Two Cities

In A Tale of Two Cities, wine is used as a symbol for escape. The wine was always involved when it came to escape from the norm. The wine cask breaking in front of the Defarges' is a good example of this, as is Manette's being recalled to life. The revolution itself can also be tied to the wine. The final example of this would be the character Syndey Carton.

When the wine cask broke in front of Defarge's shop, the people quickly rushed up to drink it. They abandoned their work for a few moments to drink the wine that pooled in the streets, and playfully drank it up. The people went back to their work and normal lives, but they were all already stained with the spilled wine This meant that they would later turn to this source to get relieve from their lives. In this instance, the wine also symbolized the revolution to come, and how the people used it as an excuse to escape their meaningless and pitiful existences.

Defarges wine shop was the place of another escape that was good, and not evil like the revolution. Manette, though he was set free from prison, was not set free in his mind until spending time with Defarge. Although he did not drink wine, he lived in the wine shop. It is because of this that wine is connected with Manette's escape from prison, and his return to the world.

The Revolution itself is very closely tied with wine throughout the novel, and the Revolution is one of the greatest escapes in the entire book. The revolution was the French people's escape from the hellish life that the nobles had imposed on them, and the wine shop had been the center of all the events of the Revolution. The Defarges planned the revolution from the wine shop, and it had been the meeting place for the Jacques. The wine helped fuel the revolution, which was the people's escape.

The final instance of wine's association with escape would be Syndey Carton. In the beginning of the novel,