Dear Decathletes:
Dickens uses two different villains in this book--the mobs and the aristocracy. They are opposing sides of the French Revolution. One group causes the conditions that lead to the revolution, while the other side leads the revolution but gets carried away with uncontrolled violence.
In Chapter 7 Dickens introduces an aristocratic villain--the Monsieur de Marquis. This guy is a really bad dude in true Dickens literary fashion (sort of like Scrooge). He also reminds me of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons; the kind of guy who doesn't care anything about the common folk. He represents the insensitivity of the French aristocrats of that time--they were very out of touch with the needs of the poor.
Can anyone point out some of the things Dickens has this guy say/do (directly/indirectly) in Chapter 7 that make him a symbol of the insensitive aristocracy?
He ran over a kid and paid off his dad for the trouble.
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i really dont get what was happening with the guy in the blue cap he was talking to.
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