The Wine-shop

In the book A Tale of Two Cities, Charles dickens foreshadows the French Revolution. He says, "it had stain many hands, too, and faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes" (Dickens 21). When Charles Dickens speaks of the stains he's symbolizing the blood that was shed in the next few years coming. Dickens emphasizes the bloodshed even more when he writes,"...scrawled upon a wall with his fingers dipped in muddy wineless—BLOOD" (Dickens 21). Also he hints how hunger can change a person into an animal. He writes,"some men kneel down, made scoops of their two hands jointed...dipped in the puddles with little mugs... Or even with handkerchiefs from woman's heads… Started here and there, to cut off a little stream of wine that started away in new directions..." (Dickens 21). These people are literally on their knees trying to get this wine. They are doing anything for that wine. The monarchies have all the food they could ever want but then there's these kind of people, the poor. They are feeding their children wine, their young children. The monachary is doing nothing. Dickens foreshadows the bloodshed and the hunger that will soon be coming with the war.