This world is filled with all kinds of societies, but the major two of them are the rich and
the poor. These two groups have many difference between them, the way they are treated
and the way they are shown to the world. In the novel A Tale Of Two Cities , by Charles
Dickens shows us how these two groups are laid out to the world to look at ( the
aristocrats and the peasants ) in France during the 1700's. Aristocrats are the rulers of
France and often they are abusive to the peasants and they can get away with anything.While peasants are looked upon as the lower ones.Dickens shows how the Marquis usethere power and privileges to do what they want, but the impecunious peasants can't do anything about it because of there poorness.
Dickens contrast the poverty oppression of the people of St. Antoine with thewealth and privilege of the Marquis. For example the wine that spilled in the street, "...wasred wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of SaintAntoine...[one joker] scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-less
-BLOOD"(p.28). The hunger had taken over the people and the only thing they caredabout was to put that wine in there mouths. It was a sign of what was coming next and thepeople would have the same hunger of the rich aristrocats. Further more, "[T]he cloudsettled on Saint Antoine...the darkness of it was heavy with cold, dirt, sickness, ignoranceand want"(28). The streets of Saint Antoine were filled with fear that people had in thereminds about what was going to happen. The poor got tired of the rich people controlling
them. This tells us that the streets of Saint Antoine were showing signs of what was aboutto come.
Marquis didn't care about the people of Saint Antoine because of there wealth andprivileges they had over them. When St. Evermond ran over a kid, he said, "It isextraordinary to me that you people can't...