The French Revolution took place when poor peasants who had been mistreated rebelled against rich and cruel aristocrats. When they did, the situation was bloody, chaotic, and no living was spared in their vengeful conquest. In Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, the French Revolution is depicted through the lives of both peasants and aristocrats. Marquis St. Evermonde and the entire Evermonde family treated many peasants cruelly and inhumanely. In the book, the poor citizens of the suburb called Saint Antoine are among the many French peasants who rebel against the Marquis and all the aristocrats, but this is only the beginning of their revenge. Dickens uses the symbols of the whirlwind, the storm and the sea to represent the building of anger in the peasants, which drives them to seek revenge. The vortex represents the construction of emotions that forms a vortex, which sucks everyone in, in order to take revenge. In the book, Dickens writes about the whirlpool by saying, “The whirlpool of boiling waters has a central point, so all this anger revolved around Defarge's wine shop” (Dickens 165). The Defarges are the leaders of the St. Antoine revolution and their wine shop is the center of it. The Defarges are the leaders of the revolution because Madame Defarge desperately wants revenge for what happened to her family years ago. She had a sister who was raped by one of the Evermonde brothers and when her brother tries to save his sister, he is fatally wounded. Dr. Manette is related to this situation because he was called to take care of his sister, and when he realized what they had done to this woman, he wrote a letter, which is why he was in prison. As for Madame Defarge, she manages to escape,...... middle of paper...... symbol of the revolutionaries as the frightening and dominating sea, it really showed the reader how determined the peasants were to take revenge .Through the whirlpool, the storm and the sea, Dickens portrays the image of revenge effectively and memorably. Each symbol shows the wrath and ferocity of the revolutionaries. They have shown a power and determination that is very scary, quite admirable in the sense that they would stop at nothing to exact their revenge. The symbols have a common thread; they were powerful, destructive and yet effective. The book makes the reader wonder if he or she would go this far for revenge. It is human nature to seek revenge for wrongdoings, and Dickens carefully illustrates the lengths to which any revolutionary, let alone a human being, would go to take revenge for such heinous crimes committed by the aristocracy or anyone else..