Tale of Two Cities

Tale of Two Cities Paragraph The angry mobs of poor citizens take on a form of a powerful, forceful ocean that unpredictably sweeps through the Bastille. The mobs of people are compared to a sea that is rising when Dickens states “suddenly the sea rose immeasurably wider and higher.” The ‘sea’ comes out of nowhere and appears to be growing larger and without warning. The angry mobs of people were so forceful that Defarge was …

…flooding it with their bodies. Charles Dickens compares the people to the “sea that rushed in”. The sea is the mob of upset people. They moved fast and furiously into the courtyard as if to flood it. A mob of riotous people can be compared to an angry ocean or sea. Just like a body of water in the middle of a storm, the rioting people become a powerful, forceful drive that destroyed the Bastille.