Knitting and wine are elementary symbols to understanding A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens collectively foreshadows the future of the French Revolution with intriguing themes: Madame Defarge's carefully selected list of condemned aristocrats to die in the revolution and the streets stained with wine that are soon to be stained with blood. Both of these themes create an atmosphere of darkness and apprehension that entails the lower class's uprising against the wealthy. Madame Defarge, the …showed first 75 words of 490 total…

…showed last 75 words of 490 total…spilt wine described by Dickens in perceptive detail, the plot becomes a riddle, which can only be cleared up in retrospect. The French Revolution's clash of classes is evident with the intense vengeance the oppressed mob of angry peasants had on the nobles. Having no definite victor between the classes is significant in the story, as Dickens contrasts the changes each class makes: either for "the best of times", or for "the worst of times".