What is Charles Dickens’s reasoning for describing the...

What is Charles Dickens’s reasoning for describing the large congregations that occasionally happen in France as a shambolic (chaotic) multitude? Charles Dickens reveals the blood thirsty and vengeful attitude of the people by describing their actions and riots that they caused for the revolution. Before the storming of the Bastille by the peasants, Dickens describes the crowd, â€Å"As a whirlpool of boiling waters [that] has a centre point,† at Defarge’s wine shop. The crowd that appears is compared to a rapidly rotating mass of water which can be depicted as a mob that is rapidly coming together as one to overthrow the aristocrats from their power. After the storming of Bastille, â€Å"Saint Antoine’s blood was up, and the blood of†¦show more content†¦The upper class had lavish banquets and lived to their pleasures with more than sufficient food their needs without ever being worried about starving or living in poverty. For a self centered Mo nseigneur, â€Å"his morning’s chocolate could not so much as get into the throat of Monseigneur, without the aid of four strong men besides the Cook,† and every detail of his routines and actions only show how much spoiled the aristocrats like him are. This shows how the people of the upper class surround themselves with the greatest splendors and luxury while the peasants are out on the streets begging for food and eating anything they can find that is edible, like grass which the old Foulon told them to eat. The peasants hardly can find food because there were, â€Å"Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat,† and they couldn’t grow sufficient food for their needs at all. Details about Saint Antoine show that it was a very poor suburb where people worked hard and still didn’t have anything to satisfy their hunger and poverty. The upper class people live d their rich lives riding on carriages that,† dashed through the streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way,† disregarding the safety of others, who live