How is Madame Defarge a villain?

The antagonist in Charles Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities, is named Madame Defarge, who is a bitter knitter and wine shop owner. She is bent on seeking revenge for her family by killing all members of the Evremonde family. Madame Defarge also plays a victim in this story, having lost her entire family to two men.

Why is Madame Defarge so angry and bloodthirsty?

Madame Defarge reveals that she is the younger sister of the peasant woman who was raped by the Evrémondes and demands vengeance for the murder of her entire family. Defarge, however, believes the killing should be limited.

What does Madame Defarge represent in a tale of two cities?

She represents one aspect of the Fates. The Moirai (the Fates as represented in Greek mythology) used yarn to measure out the life of a man, and cut it to end it; Defarge knits, and her knitting secretly encodes the names of people to be killed.

How does Madame Defarge show her merciless strength?

How does Madame Defarge show her merciless strength? She cuts off the head of a guard, with her weapon. Seven guards are killed and seven prisoners released which signifies the power the people now have.

How does Madame Defarge keep track of her enemies?

She runs a wine shop in Saint Antoine that just happens to be the hub of all revolutionary activity. The lifeline of the revolutionaries, Madame Defarge knits a pattern that becomes a record of all the people whom the revolution will destroy.

What Madame Defarge says is the cause of her hatred of the Evrémondes?

Madame Defarge intensely despises the aristocracy because she blames it for the deaths in her family. Defarge’s sister was raped by the Marquis de Evremonde in her youth, a crime that resulted in both her father and brother’s deaths because of their respective grief and quest for revenge.

What was the fate of the Marquis’s killer and who reported that fate to Defarge?

The fate of the Marquis’s killer is that he is hung, and the mender of roads reported that fate to Defarge. These sentences were recorded by knitting so that they will be kept secret until the appropriate time.

Where does Madame Defarge end her vengeance?

Madame Defarge ends her vengeance with the total extermination of all aristocrats. Carton has Darnay write the letter because he wants it in Darnay’s own handwriting.