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A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Chapter 16: Still Knitting

A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Chapter 16: Still Knitting. Erin Freitas. Significance of the Title. Still Knitting When Madame Defarge continues to knit her hit list and plans to knit a new name The pastime for many women in the town. Plot Summary. Madame and Monsieur Defarge return home

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A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Chapter 16: Still Knitting

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  1. A Tale of Two CitiesBook 2 Chapter 16: Still Knitting Erin Freitas

  2. Significance of the Title • Still Knitting • When Madame Defarge continues to knit her hit list and plans to knit a new name • The pastime for many women in the town

  3. Plot Summary • Madame and Monsieur Defarge return home • They pass the former château of Monsieur the Marquis • On the ride home a policeman informs Monsieur Defarge about a spy named John Barsad • Madame Defarge plans to put him on the list • Back at the wine shop, Madame Defarge notices that her husband is sad and depressed

  4. Plot Summary (cont.) • Monsieur Defarge tells her that the revenge plan is taking too long • Madame tells him that it will take a long time to start revolution, but they can only go up • Monsieur Defarge is unsure that they will have victory, Madame disagrees and even if they don’t she wants the upper class to suffer • The next day Madame Defarge is knitting in the wine shop, Basard comes in to spy • He strikes a conversation with Madame Defarge and he brings up her knitting

  5. Plot summary (Cont.) • She is surprised when he expresses pity for the poor, and for Gaspard • Basard talks to Monsieur Defarge about the Manettes and reveals Lucie is getting married • After the customers stopped coming, Basard leaves the wine shop • Later that night the women of Saint Antoine knitted

  6. Literary Devices • “When Saint Antoine had again enfolded the Defarges in his dusky wings, and they, having finally alighted near the Saint’s boundaries…”(pg.183) • Personicification • “’My brave wife,’” returned Defarge, standing before her with his head a little bent, and his hands clasped at his back, like a docile and attentive pupil before his catechist, “’I do not question all this. But it has lasted a long time, and it is possible—you know well, my wife, it is possible—that it may not come, during our lives.’” (pg. 185) • Similie

  7. Literary Devices(cont.) • “’Yes! But it is your weakness that you sometimes need to see your victim and your opportunity, to sustain you. Sustain yourself without that. When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained—not shown—yet always ready.’” (pg. 186) • Metaphor

  8. Essential Quote • “’I tell thee,’” said madame extending her right hand for emphasis, ‘that although it is a long timeon the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee that it never retreats, and never stops. I tell thee it is always advancing. Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know, consider the rage and discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour. Can such things last? Bah! I mock you.’” (pg. 185)

  9. Questions?

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