However that Tom is fast asleep means that both appear far from human. They are giving grotesque animal like qualities. "Jo and his order" (BH 258) are in may wqys similar to the characters portrayed in A Tale of Two Cities. With the likes of La Vengeance, Jo becomes the "Tough Subject". In fact "few people are known in Tom All Alone's by any Christian sign" (BH 358) Isolated from Christian civilisation, they have evolved into meer symbols of their harsh and inhumane expereince. That they lack this intergration makes their potential to take their revenge from the world that has bread them all the more poignant. .
In fact the idea of the upsurges in Europe penetrating England is forewarned in the appearance of the French serving woman, Hortense. She is described by Esther as "some woman from the streets of Paris in the reign of terror". (BH 368) Her passion is dangerous and serves as a warning that such foreign zest could easily penetrate the back streets of England, particularly if the condition of England is not addressed immediately. Carlyle persistent caution was not unheeded by Dickens. The shortcomings of those in charge could easily provoke "many a deed of violence and blooshed" especially if men continued to "calmly look at the evil before such dangers force it upon their attention". (Oddie, 1972: 12) Hortense is capable of showing her force, and achieveing her aim, and although Dickens doesn't explore her characeter extensively, one can sense that her angered point of view, but more importantly her action could easily influence those in similar circumstances.
Despite their almost inherited disease lower class experience is one of survival. Their perception of the world, shaped by their experience, has been one in which they have learnt the hunted, hounded persistently to "move on". (BH 300) In regard to the detective, Jo considers Bucket to be "in all manner of places, all at wunst".
