“Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody’s life, footsteps not easily made clean again if once stained red, and footsteps raging in Saint Antoine afar off, as the little circle sat in the dark London window (222).”
In Chapter 21 we begin to read about an event that is greatly anticipated throughout the novel, The French Revolution. In the small French town of Saint Antoine, bloodshed begins to occur as the townspeople begin their revolt against the aristocracy. The revolt is led by the Defarges, the owners of the local wine shop. Over in London, Lucie listens for footsteps of people who may enter her life, and she now hears those of the revolutionaries. This passage connects with the Blood and Wine motif, for the owners of the wine shop, the Defarges, are helping to lead a gruesome attack that is destroying France. This sheds light on the fact that the revolution is nearly impossible to escape, and it permanently affects the lives of everyone in both England and France.
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I actually wrote about a passage very similar to this in my last journal also even though I'm in the Double Trouble motif because I couldn't find anything about doubles in the three assigned chapters, but I completely agree with your analysis of this passage. I also think that when they say on page 230 " now Heaven defeat the fancy of Lucie Darnay and keep these feet far out of her life! For they are headlong, mad, and dangerous, and in the years so long after the breaking of the cask at Defarge's wine-shop door, they are not easily made purified again if once stained red" means that the revolutionaries are becoming blood thirsty and they will not stop until everything they want to happen, and everyone they hope to kill, is followed through with. They can't be purified until what has been staining them red is gone.
i agree with both kristin and savannah's analysis.
the quote implies that the effects of the french revolution will be essentially irreversable for both the peasants and the nobility. however, the "forcing" of the footsteps also implies the inevitability of the french revolution from occuring in the first place. This is one of the first quotes where Dickens so obviously foreshadows the revolution.
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