The chapter shifted to Saint Antoine, a poor suburb of Paris. A wine cask spilled into the street, causing everyone to drop to their knees to get a sip off the street. It showed the sheer desperation of the people, but also alluded to the coming of the revolution. “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 night-cap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees—blood.” You didn’t fully realize the meaning behind this until the revolution was in full force, where instead of the street being filled with wine, it was filled with the blood of the
The chapter shifted to Saint Antoine, a poor suburb of Paris. A wine cask spilled into the street, causing everyone to drop to their knees to get a sip off the street. It showed the sheer desperation of the people, but also alluded to the coming of the revolution. “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 night-cap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees—blood.” You didn’t fully realize the meaning behind this until the revolution was in full force, where instead of the street being filled with wine, it was filled with the blood of the