Vampirisim in Tale of two cities
Vampires have always been an idea tossed around and portrayed differently through what other people see them as. Some see them as sparkly vampires that have an inevitable love for a human, and others see them as the cruel beasts that the origin stories conclude. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster states that one doesn’t have to be a vampire to have vampire- like qualities through their actions or thoughts. In A Tale of Two Cities, Marquis Evrémonde portrays these exact qualities and everyone soon learns of what he truly has done and meets his inevitable death in the end. Evrémonde was shown in the book to have little respect for anything, especially humans. Dickens writes this out clearly in the novel to show the true Marquis through several occurrences. Before the Revolution, Marquis was with his twin brother who was still alive in this time. Marquis then raped Madam Defarge’s sister and in doing so took her innocence away from her. This being the vampire trait that Foster had written about in his book, that an old attractive man would violate a woman, taking her innocence and leave his mark. Her brother was also in critical condition after Evrémonde had stabbed him. When the doctor arrived it was already too late for the both of them. With this Evrémonde made sure in every way that the doctor, Mannete, wouldn’t speak a word of what truly had occurred. Though Evrémonde tried his hardest and thought he had succeeded, the true story would eventually make its way out to the public. Later in the story, Evrémonde, during the revolution, was going through town on his carriage where struck and killed a boy. He then showed no sympathy towards the family by offering the father a few coins to show sarcastically how sorrowful he was for what he had done. Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, showing the French Revolution and everyone’s reactions towards it. He showed the controversy between the French Peasantry and the French aristocracy. He