The seamstress (A Tale of Two Cities) The seamstress (A Tale of Two Cities) The seamstress is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities." The seamstress is an unnamed twenty-year-old woman featured as a desperately poor peasant accused of plotting against the French Republic by Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety during the Terror of the French Revolution in 1793. Found guilty of this imaginary crime, she was condemned to death by beheading. She became acquainted with Charles Darnay during their imprisonments in La Force Prison, and was the only person to recognize Sydney Carton as an impostor as the two of them rode
A Tale of Two Cities that this nation is more a 'Tale of Two Cities' than it is just a 'Shining City on a Hill'." "A Tale of Two Cities" served as inspiration to the 2012 Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" by Christopher Nolan. The character of Bane is in part inspired by Dickens' Madame Defarge: he organises kangaroo court trials against the ruling elite of the city of Gotham and is seen knitting in one of the trial scenes like Madame Defarge. There are other hints to Dickens' novel, such as Talia al Ghul being obsessed with revenge and having a close relationship