The French Revolution is the main event described by the use of foreshadowing. Dickens uses the phrase "one tall joker so besmirched...scrawls upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy-lees BLOOD," to forecast the spilt wine as future blood shed during the French Revolution (37-38). Dickens also subtly states, "the one woman, Madame Defarge, who stands conspicuous, knitting, still knits on with the steadfastness of Fate," and he is f

The use of foreshadowing reveals many future events in the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Foreshadowing reveals the French Revolution many times. The revenge of the poor people against the aristocracy is shown through foreshadowing. Lucie's future is foreshadowed through the footstep and echoes in the novel.

Another instance of foreshadowing is the revenge of the poor people against the aristocrats. When Dickens writes, "there is a flutter in the air that fans Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away," he is referring to the poor people in Saint Antoine such as the Defarges and their death craving towards the aristocrats (113). The poor that crave the aristocrats deaths have such a strong aura that they are a part of a living Saint Antoine, and for a moment, their death craving is delayed until a later time. Dickens also states in this novel, "The knife strikes home, the faces change, from faces of pride to faces of anger and pain; also that

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