Wine Shop

     Chapter five of A Tale of Two Cities seems to foreshadow something that may happen later in the book. Dickens describes a scene in Paris including lots of wine and some peasants. I think it is foreshadowing that the peasants will rebel against the government.  The incident started with one cask of wine. "A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street" (Dickens 20). The wine cask represents the government trying to restrain the peasants. The peasants were being mistreated by the government and no one was trying to get them out of poverty. The cask is the government breaking and the wine that flows out is the peasants trying to rebel. "The rough,  irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools: these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size" (Dickens 20-21). In this quote the sidewalk is the government and the wine is the peasants. The government is trying to keep the peasants under control similar to the twists and turns in the sidewalk. The wine just keeps going around the twists and can't be controlled like the peasants. "The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled" (Dickens 21). The quote represents how even if the government gets control over the peasants they will always remember  the event like how the street will always be stained. The chapter definitely foreshadows something big to come in the future.