Madame Defarge - The Knitting Avenger

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Madame Defarge embodies the implacable, depersonalized vengeance of the Revolution; her knitting catalogues the names of those marked for death.
Book 1, Chapter 5 (The Wine-shop)

Her introduction in the wine-shop with the spilled wine on the Paris cobblestones foreshadowing blood.

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Book 2, Chapter 16 (Still Knitting)

The register knit into her stitches: 'Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun.'

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Book 3, Chapter 14 (The Knitting Done)

Her death in the struggle with Miss Pross.

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