Red Wine Dropped on the Street

                 
             The red wine was dropped on the stone-covered street, making its way between the stones.  Everyone in the area stops what they're currently doing to run to the wine covering the street. Mothers, infants, men and elders, all poor, hoping to get at least a drop of the wine. 

            In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, a cask of wine is dropped on the street outside of a winery. The drawing above is a civilian's perspective of the scene on the streets of France. There is a mother in the drawing using a handkerchief to soak up some of the wine to give to her child and an elderly man using a mug to scoop up some of the wine that is mixed in with dirt. There is also a man cupping his hands together to get some of the wine and a joker using the liquid to paint the word 'blood.' The image and scene of the paupers drinking the wine off the ground foreshadows the book. The French Revolution is foreshadowed, it makes sense because  A Tale of Two Cities is set during the time of the French Revolution. In any type of War or battle atmosphere, there will be blood drawn. The blood being drawn in the image is the red wine being spilled. The wine can be looked at as blood, not only because they share the same color, but because a man is spelling the word 'blood' in this current scene! The broken bottle on the street can also be seen as the hearts that break after losing loved ones in the battle. Another way the Revolution is being foreshadowed by the image is this picture could be a time when it was easier for the poor believe it or not. War's are known for helping a country lose money when buying weapons and paying more soldiers and several other necessities. It is said that after the French Revolution that France was not deep in poverty, but there was a large problem with the agriculture. It was becoming hard for France to grow food, so many people were starving. The poor in the image are hungry enough to run to the street and drink wine off of it, and this is set before the Revolution happened. The hunger can  only get worse after it. This could be the "best of times" before the "worst of times" that Dickens was writing about. The poor didn't know that they were living a better life than the one that's going to come after battle. In conclusion, the red wine that is dropped in the street, left for the pauper in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is foreshadowing the French Revolution.