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[indiasreviews]

A Tale of Two “Titties” (If You’ll Excuse the Pun)

Reading time: 2 mins

Side note: I realise that the title is quite out there, but I saw the opportunity and couldn’t resist. Ah the Victorian era… A period responsible for penny-farthing bicycles and rigid roles for the sexes

Although Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities in the midst of Queen Victoria’s reign, its setting of the French Revolution is central to the values that are explored within the text. That is to say, the age-old idea that men were the so-called breadwinners and women, the damsel in distress springs to mind.

In many ways, I think that Lucie Manette and Elizabeth Lavenza in Shelley’s Frankenstein would be the bestest of friends. Why is this? Well, for starters, both women are very passive in nature and when I say very, I mean very. Their characters aim to portray the stereotypical woman of the 18th & 19th Century. Noor states that Lucy is presented as a ‘gentle, fragile and delicate woman’.

Are you surprised by her portrayal? This is the Victorian period we are talking about here…

The passive nature of Lucie is shown in Chapter XIII of the Second Book where Mr. Carton asks her ‘Will you hear me?’ and she replies, ‘If it will do you any good…if it would make you happier, it would make me very glad!’.

This dialogue says a lot about the expectation of women’s behaviour. This is because it presents Lucie as a character who conforms to the ideals of femininity at the time. She agrees to listen to Mr. Carton, not because she wants to, but because she is aware that it will please him. Her compliance to his request reinforces her submissive temperament.

However, not all of the women are like Lucie.

To put it into perspective, if the assertiveness of women in the novel was placed on a scale of 1-10, Lucie would be at 1 and Madame Defarge would be at 10.  

Baidya argues that in contrast to Lucie, Madame Defarge is a character who is not ‘one of the stereotypical women’ nor is she ‘the ideal Victorian woman who remained in the house’. So, Lucie and Madame Defarge = polar opposites.

Dickens presents Madame Defarge as a woman who defies and rejects the constraints of the patriarchy. (You go girl). However, despite her resistance she is portrayed in a derogatory way…This is most evident when she is described as a ‘tigress’ and the ‘wife of Lucifer’. Granted, Madame Defarge is a vicious and cunning character, but is it just me or does her animalistic and violent depiction scream misogyny?

Ernest Defarge describes his wife as a ‘strong woman’ (he’s not wrong). Perhaps Dickens is suggesting that because she is a strong woman, she is inherently viewed as wicked and evil because she is independent and therefore, unconstrained. Pretty sexist but hey, like I said, it is the Victorian era.

Anyway, moving on…I have to say, one of my favourite things about Madame Defarge’s character is how she uses knitting, a stereotypical hobby of a woman, to aid her in her role in the French Revolution. In Chapter 5 of Book 1, she is seen taking ‘up her knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit and became absorbed in it’. 

Dalfonzo makes a good point that she ‘personifies all the terror and vengeance of the French Revolution’ and as the title of her blog aptly says, Madame Defarge really is, in fact, knitting a revolution. For this reason, Lewis denotes Madame Defarge as an ‘allegory for radical feminism’, as well as portraying the ‘terrifying power of political womanhood’. The irony is that the reason why she is so concentrated on her knitting is not because she is wanting to act like the stereotypical woman. Quite the opposite actually, she is knitting the names of the people who must be executed in the Revolution.

The part that she plays is very unconventional and fails to comply with the traditional idea that women should perform domestic chores.

I will leave this with you: does Dickens punish Madame Defarge for her unconventional actions, yet praise Lucie for her traditional ones?

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[oliviacastetter]

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[gapasturias]

@vanediaz_art "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." . Illustrations of the main characters of A Tale of Two Cities, one of the best classics! When I finished reading the book I felt the sudden urge to bring them to life with my own style and vision. Story characters' drawings on my Instagram profile. #art #artwork #artistoninstagram #artofinstagram #myart #fan #fanart #book #bookfanart #classic #charlesdickens #ataleoftwocities #luciemanette #alexandremanette #charlesdarnay #sydneycarton #frenchrevolution #London #Paris #digitalillustration #digitalart #blackandwhite #madewithwacom #wacomart #loveyourart #vanediazart @safecreative Publicación © autorizada por su autor original. ====== El Grupo Artes Plásticas de Oviedo (GAPOviedo) promociona de una forma exclusiva, gratuita y filantrópica a sus miembros, asturianos o residentes en Asturias, España, en sus diferentes expresiones creativas y artisticas. (at Principality of Asturias) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0plCb0lWWz/?igshid=lbvq7c2wp4os

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[lyssbooks]

Current reading choice 

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[gracetempest99]

Se fosse stato possibile, Miss Manette, che voi aveste potuto ricambiare l'amore dell'uomo che vedete davanti a voi, buttato via, sciupato, ubriacone, la povera creatura inutile che conoscete, quell'uomo avrebbe saputo bene, in quel momento stesso, e malgrado la sua felicità, che vi avrebbe portato alla miseria, al dolore e al pentimento, che vi avrebbe resa infelice, vi avrebbe disonorata, vi avrebbe trascinata giù con lui. So molto bene che non potete provare alcuna tenerezza per me; non la chiedo: vi sono persino grato di non potermela donare.

Racconto di due città, Charles Dickens

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[nnegovorivavecotem]

La mia felicità sarebbe stata perfetta se alla tua fosse mancato qualcosa?

Dr Manette, A tale of two cities

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