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Madame DeFarge was described as a stout woman with manly characteristics…. thick hands too.
Madame DeFarge would the one French Revolutionary to operate the guillotine to execute many French nobles & aristocracy.
Madame Defarge's Knitting
But on a metaphoric level, the knitting constitutes a symbol in itself, representing the stealthy, cold-blooded vengefulness of the revolutionaries.
As Madame Defarge sits quietly knitting, she appears harmless and quaint. In fact, however, she sentences her victims to death.
Michelle Obama thinks she's some sort of modern day Madame DeFarge.