subject
English, 05.10.2019 06:30 innocentman69

How do the historical realities of this period affect this excerpt from the novel?

dickens foreshadows the coming bloody conflict by describing wine, which resembles blood, flowing in the streets.

the violence of the forthcoming revolution is shown in the warlike way the people treat each other while drinking the spilled wine.

the people's urgent desire to capture and drink the spilled wine shows the desperate conditions that lead to revolution.

the bizarre, dreamlike occurrence of the spilling of wine stands for the feeling of hope during a revolution.

read the passage.

dickens’s novel deals with the events surrounding the french revolution (1789–1794), including the period known as the reign of terror, during which horrific violence occurred in france.

excerpt from a tale of two cities by charles dickens

a large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. the accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.

all the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. the rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size. some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to women, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers. others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mud-embankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted fragments with eager relish. there was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.

a shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices—voices of men, women, and children—resounded in the street while this wine game lasted. there was little roughness in the sport, and much playfulness. there was a special companionship in it, an observable inclination on the part of every one to join some other one, which led, especially among the luckier or lighter-hearted, to frolicsome embraces, drinking of healths, shaking of hands, and even joining of hands and dancing, a dozen together. when the wine was gone, and the places where it had been most abundant were raked into a gridiron-pattern by fingers, these demonstrations ceased, as suddenly as they had broken out. the man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting, set it in motion again; the women who had left on a door-step the little pot of hot ashes, at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it; men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away, to descend again; and a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more natural to it than sunshine.

the wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of saint antoine, in paris, where it was spilled. it had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes. the hands of the man who sawed the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again. those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees—blood.

the time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.

ansver
Answers: 2

Another question on English

question
English, 21.06.2019 23:30
Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.
Answers: 2
question
English, 21.06.2019 23:30
Which words or phrases from this passage best demonstrate logos?
Answers: 1
question
English, 22.06.2019 01:30
Welcome to the vocabulary assessment. by connecting with words in a more interactive way, through a graphic organizer that includes your own ideas, we hope you will learn new vocabulary strategies to integrate into your course work and your everyday life. objectives: use a variety of techniques to acquire a range of words determine, clarify, and illustrate the meaning of unfamiliar words to ensure that you properly and successfully complete the vocabulary assessment, do the following: complete the assessment using the passage provided. select a word from the passage, and identify/create each of the following for that word: denotation connotations synonyms antonyms affixes the sentence from the passage where the word appears an original sentence using the word a memory trick type your responses in the appropriate boxes. after you have typed your responses, print your graphic organizer and submit it to your teacher. be careful not to refresh the page before printing, as some browsers will not save your work. passage from "the pit and the pendulum" by edgar allan poe very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and in my ears the sound of its beating. then a pause in which all is blank. then again sound, and motion, and touch, a tingling sensation pervading my frame. then the mere consciousness of existence, without thought, a condition which lasted long. then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state. then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. then a rushing revival of soul and a successful effort to move. and now a full memory of the trial, of the judges, of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of the swoon. then entire forgetfulness of all that followed; of all that a later day and much earnestness of endeavor have enabled me vaguely to recall.
Answers: 1
question
English, 22.06.2019 05:00
Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader
Answers: 1
You know the right answer?
How do the historical realities of this period affect this excerpt from the novel?

dick...
Questions
question
Mathematics, 02.07.2019 12:00
question
Mathematics, 02.07.2019 12:00
question
Mathematics, 02.07.2019 12:00
question
Mathematics, 02.07.2019 12:00
question
Mathematics, 02.07.2019 12:00
question
Mathematics, 02.07.2019 12:00
Questions on the website: 13722367