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Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a ringleader of the tricoteuses, a tireless worker for the French Revolution, memorably knitting beside the guillotine during executions. She is the wife of Ernest Defarge .
Madame Defarge is a ruthless revolutionary who seeks vengeance against the aristocracy and Lucie Manette. She knits a list of victims, invades Lucie's privacy, and dies by her own gun in Dickens's novel.
Madame Defarge, fictional character in A Tale of Two Cities (1859), a novel by Charles Dickens set during the French Revolution. A symbol of vengefulness and revolutionary excess, Madame Defarge sits outside her Paris wine shop endlessly knitting a scarf that is—in effect—a list of those to be.
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Madame Defarge is a ruthless and implacable revolutionary who knits a list of enemies to be executed. She has a dark past, but becomes a monster who shows no pity or mercy. Learn more about her history, motives, and fate in A Tale of Two Cities.
Madame Defarge is a ruthless revolutionary who knits the names of her enemies into her work. She is the opposite of Lucie Manette, the embodiment of pity and goodness, and a symbol of the French Revolution's violence and bloodlust.
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Madame Defarge stares at her coldly and says that the wives and mothers of France have been suffering for a very long time. She leaves without ever promising to help. On the morning of Charles' trial, Madame Defarge sits in the front row.
