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Book 2 Chapter 15: Knitting. BY PARTH PATEL. Significance of title Knitting. Knitting is referring to the process and/or the creation of a special list that is created in a code that the nobility can not decode. Key elements.
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Book 2 Chapter 15: Knitting BY PARTH PATEL
Significance of title Knitting • Knitting is referring to the process and/or the creation of a special list that is created in a code that the nobility can not decode.
Key elements • As Mrs. Defarge runs the wine shop, Mr. Defarge and a man who is referred to as the mender of roads soon enter the wine shop. • Mr. Defarge and the mender of roads after leaving, meet 3 other Jacques in the attic where Dr. Manette had been hidden before with his shoe shop. • The mendor of roads then tells a story of a tall man who he saw under the Marquis’s carriage hanging by a chain. • This man was accused of killing the Marquis and was seen by the mendor of roads again being taken to prison by soldiers beaten up and bloody.
Key elements (cont.) • While he remained imprisoned awaiting his execution soon to come ,a petition was created to remove Damiens from his imprisonment. The petition failed and Damiens was hanged. • The mendor of roads is asked to step out and the other men talk about the killing of high nobility • The mendor of roads is taken later to the king and queen where the mendor gets amazed by their presence • The Defarges believe this is good in fooling the upper class into thinking that the lower classes are in alliance with them
Literary devices • Symbolism – The knitting is used to symbolize not only the creation of the list but the process leading up to the French revolution • Personification – “ all the village sees the prison gate open in the darkness of the night , and swallow him.” (175) • Repetition – “ All the village, pursued the mendor of roads, on tiptoe and in a low voice, withdraws; all the village whispers by the fountain; all the village sleeps; all the village dreams of that unhappy one…” (175)
essential Quote • “Know that a petition was presented to the king and queen. All here, yourself excepted , saw the King take it , in his carriage in the street, sitting beside the Queen . It is Defarge whom you see here, who, at the hazard of his life, darted out before the horses, with the petition in his hand… the guard, the horse and foot, surrounded the petitioner and struck him blows.”
