Happening in the late 1700s in France, the French Revolution was a time of great emotion, ferocity, tribulation and passion during which peasants were treated completely unfairly from the selfish and selfish aristocratic class. Dickens captures this period beautifully in his brilliant and iconic novel, A Tale of Two Cities. This era was dominated by the massive bloodshed caused by the peasants' rebellion against their oppressors. People weren't sure if life was getting better or worse, but things were definitely changing everywhere. Dickens's excellent uses of the metaphors of scarecrows and birds of beautiful song and feathers, of knitting and of noble captives in La Force contribute greatly to the theme of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. song and feather to represent the oppressive relationship between peasants and aristocrats. The peasants are lifeless and pathetic, walking around like scarecrows, due to the cruelty of the aristocrats. They are hungry, miserable and desperate. To show how desperate and downtrodden they have become, Dickens states: “For the time was to come when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should look upon the lamplighter, in their inactivity and hunger, so long, that they should conceive the idea of ​​improving the his method is to drag men with those ropes and pulleys, to illuminate the darkness of their condition” (Dickens 23). The farmers stare lifelessly at the lamplighter, imagining themselves being pulled out of their oppressive, dark state by his pulley system and into the light, or a better life. Later, they will rebel against the aristocrats because of their oppression, as Dickens presents... middle of paper... ochres. This ghost metaphor flawlessly shows that the peasants went too far and became just as bad as the aristocrats were. The use of scarecrows and birds of fine feathers, knitting and noble captives in La Force achieves Dickens' aim, which was to show how horrible a man can be to his fellow man. The aristocrats ignored the suffering of the peasants, which surely came back to affect them later with the exchange of roles, similar to karma. Meanwhile, the peasants' thirst and desperation for the revolution grows, and so do their plans for revenge. The noble prisoners show how the guilty and innocent are all killed, regardless, and the ruthlessness of the revolution. Dickens shows through his deliberate symbolism and metaphors how the oppressed can become oppressors, how easily things can change, and how quickly things can change..