Throughout A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the effects of poverty and injustice on a society are portrayed. The injustices Dickens shows throughout A Tale of Two Cities result in an inevitable war between the rich and poor among people. Injustice in the novel is shown through the ways the royalty and aristocracies live compared to the lives of the lower class. These injustices led to a bloody indiscriminate revolution against anyone who was even suspected of possessing wealth.
             In A Tale of Two Cities, there is a large gap in between social classes. Royalty and aristocrats lead very expensive, excessive and lavish lives. This gap in class and the lack of care for peasants and other lower class people, caused hatred among the peasants towards the royalty and aristocracy. At this time in France, the upper class is much higher than the lower, as shown in the wine scene. Difference in class is shown during book one chapter five, as a wine bottle breaks in front of a store, and peasants run to lick up the wine, with disregard for the mud mixed with it. The breaking of the wine bottle affects all poor near it as, "All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine." This is so significant because the peasants were so poor they did not care about the wine being dirty, they were just happy to have something to drink.
             The mistreatment of the peasant class by the aristocrats lead to the French Revolution. The hatred of the peasant class towards the rich is what the French revolution was built on. The peasants had extreme hatred towards those who they felt were against them and the revolution. The expression of hatred among the peasants and lower class is most clearly shown through Madame DeFarge. Throughout the novel, Madame DeFarge knitted frequently. Madame DeFarge's knitting is her way of keeping track of those who will die la
             ...