Chapter 3 The wine shop
1. Speak about Saint Antoine as a part of Paris and about the people who lived there, giving an example of the misery بؤس of the people.
= How do you know that the people of St. Antoine were poor?
St. Antoine was a poor street in Paris. Its people were hungry and miserable. When the barrel of wine was broken, they left their work and fought like beasts وحوش to drink the muddy wine that ran along the street. They had never tasted wine before because of their poverty. They knew nothing but black bread and death.
1. How did Defarge make use of the Doctor’s presence after he had been set free?
Defarge, Dr Manette’s old servant-kept him in a locked room. He used to allow the Jacques (a revolutionary group) to watch Dr. Manette- an ex-Bastille prisoner. He wanted to fill them with great hatred for the nobles and to urge يحث them to revolt against their injust ruler. This shows the seeds of revolution in Defarge’s heart.
2. On what occasion did Defarge accuse Gaspard of rashness?
Defarge accused Gaspard of being rash when Gaspard wrote the word BLOOD on the wall with the muddy wine in the street. He meant that a revolution would break out and make blood flow as the red wine did in the street. Defarge [as a leader of a revolutionary group working in secret (Jacques)] didn’t like anyone to feel their anger against the aristocrats.
1. What foreshadows the revolution in this chapter?
=Dickens, here, prepares us for the revolution and its happenings. Explain
· The word blood Which Gaspard wrote on the wall.
· The wine shop – the meeting place of the revolutionists.
· The knitting work of Madam Defarge.
· The revolutionary group called "Jacques".
1. “Are you a subject for the mad hospital? Why are you writing in the public streets?”
Defarge said these words to Gaspard, the man who wrote the word blood on the wall. He blamed him for doing so in front of people. Defarge was the leader of the "Jacques" a group working for the coming revolution. The word blood here refers to the blood path of the nobles after the breaking out of the revolution.
2. “It is not often that these miserable beasts know the taste of wine or anything but black bread and death.”
=“So Much the worse! A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live. ”
One of the Jacques said these words to Defarge and the other two men drinking at the bar. They were all speaking about the poor people who ran to drink the muddy wine. The people in Saint Antoine led a terrible life. They were neglected and deprived of يحرم من their rights. That’s why they began to plan to get rid of the nobles.
3. “I show him to a chosen few, to whom the sight is likely to do good”.
Defarge said these words to Mr. Lorry when he asked him about the three people who were looking at Dr. Manette. Defarge used to show them Dr. Manette to increase their hatred for the aristocrats. The men, he was going to show them the doctor, were members in groups working for the revolution. To encourage them to get rid of the nobles he used to show them the victim of the Bastille.