put her knife under her arm and clapped her hands as if at a play (Dickens 172). Not only has she become morbid, she has become unstoppable. She even states to her followers, Tell the wind and fire to stop, not me! Which her hearers derived a horrible enjoyment from the deadly nature of her wrath (Dickens 265). Madame Defarges thirst for justice turned into a deadly wrath of killing for power and enjoyment.Ambitions can take over anyone who takes their intentions to the extremes. These people can be humble peasants searching for justice, or an evil wife of a wine shopkeeper seeking revenge. If the oppressed let power get the best of them, they become the oppressors themselves without realizing it. Dickens wanted to illustrate this in A Tale of Two Cities because it happens often in history, and is one of the main themes through out the novel....
