The question is not are the aristocrat’s actions good but, were some of the peasants and their actions just and right? Madame Defarge is a good example of a peasant in the story that was not just and right in her actions. Her being the leader and the workhorse of the revolution her evil image gave the peasants a bad reputation and a false representation late in the story when some injustices were done by the peasants. Madame

Finally, Dickens shows sympathy towards the peasants because he portrays them as good people trying to avenge their families or just to make their lives have more meaning. The only reason why Madame Defarge is so set on killing the Evermond family is because her blood relative cursed the Evermonds and it was her blood relatives last wish that all of them be killed. Madame Defarge was merely trying to execute her dieing relative’s last wishes.

Defarge herself committed some horrible deeds, planning to kill little Lucie, backstabbing Dr. Manette and using his own paper against his wishes in court, and also for executing any dastardly deed to exterminate the Evermond family.

In the classic novel A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens rights about two main groups the peasants and the aristocrats. The question is more then answered. It is easy to see through the main characters and events in the book that Dickens sympathies rested with the peasants. Dickens reason to address these two distinct groups as he did was to show that no side was ju

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