The wine of war

     In a tale of two cities by Charles Dickens wine is dropped and spilled on a street outside a winery. This wine spilling though, is much more then that it is foreshadowing to the bloody French Revolution that is soon going to start. "All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness to run to the spot and drink the wine."(Dickens 20). I think this first quote foreshadows to the war because as in this senario everyone's normal lives will be put on hold and the war will take over their lives, just like here when people ran to get to the wine and left their tasks behind them. My next quote shows how the war will never be forgotten and always leave a "stain" on those people affected by it. "The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine where it had spilled. It had stained many hands, too, and many faces and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes"(Dickens 21). Here the wine left a red stain on the street, like the upcoming war will leave marks on the battle field in which it takes place, the family's which it ruins and the countries which it tears apart. "The time was to come, when the wine too would be spilled on the street stones"(Dickens 22). This last quote I think most directly foreshadows the war because I believe it is referring to the blood that will shed from this upcoming war. Although the wine and war may be completely different things I think that in this situation they are much alike eachother.