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Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a ringleader of the tricoteuses , a tireless worker for the French Revolution , memorably knitting beside the guillotine during executions.
Madame Thérèse Defarge Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities , 1859: Madame Defarge has been considered the "most famous and sinister knitter in literature". Having a character knitting while watching executions during the French Revolution is based on real reports.
In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens made the principal villain Madame DeFarge, the fictional ringleader of les Tricoteuses.She was a complex character, with early-life tragedies that caused her to have understandable reasons to carry her resentment into adult life.
Tricoteuse (French pronunciation: [tʁikɔtøz]) is French for a knitting woman.The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women in the French Revolution who sat in the gallery supporting the left-wing politicians in the National Convention, attended the meetings in the Jacobin club, the hearings of the Revolutionary Tribunal and sat beside the guillotine during ...
The Defarges appear—Ernest Defarge to comfort the grieving Gaspard; Madame Defarge to stand erect, stare at the Marquis boldly in the face and knit his Fate. The remainder of the crowd watches in cowed silence but an unknown hand throws the coin back into the carriage.
While Lucie prepares to return to England, Madame De Farge goes to provoke her into denouncing the Republic, but she is intercepted by Miss Pross inside the now-vacated apartment. Pross knows why Madame De Farge has come and is determined to stop her. The two women fight and De Farge pulls out a pistol, but in the ensuing struggle, Pross kills her.
These styles show various regional differences. English knitting can be split up into, among others, throwing, flicking, [3] and lever knitting. [4] Continental knitting also shows a similar range of styles. Stitches can be produced by wrapping the needle around the yarn [5] or by simply picking it through (often called "Continental picking").
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.