Theme: Mob Violence and Revolutionary Justice

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Dickens portrays the Revolution as just retribution turned monstrous, the oppressed becoming the oppressors.
Book 3, Chapter 4 (Calm in Storm)

Description of La Guillotine as the new religion replacing the Cross.

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Book 2, Chapter 22 (The Sea Still Rises)

The killing of Foulon, who told the starving people to eat grass.

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