ate and readiness to attain vengeance for being so cruelly treated. Hate overpowers Defarge and others like her; they become the oppressors and are unable to draw the line - even after the aristocratic government is overthrown. Her hate is so deep and strong that she even desires vengeance on a personal level. In her evil passion, she is ready to murder those who are completely innocent of her earlier oppression - like a mother and her child. Madame Defarge has "forgotten the original purpose of the Revolution: she enjoys the spectacle of murder for its own sake" (Gissing 89). The "strong, cruel face of the Monseigneur achieves its own true reflection in the strong, cruel face of Madame Defarge" (Dyson 215). The change in Madame Defarge truly represents the cycle of inhumanity Dickens so completely opposes. He reveals his o
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