''The Wine-shop''

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens foreshadows what the bloody future will hold by describing ''The Wine-shop'' scene. He states, " The wine was red, and had stained the ground…many hands, and many faces too, and many naked feet…”(Dickens 21). This quote in A Tale of Two Cities foreshadows the bloody future for the city by representing the wine as blood. The wine catches peoples' attention, gets all over them, and leaves them with a stain. The author writes,'' ... scrawled upon a wall with his fingers dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD"(Dickens 22). This illustrates or foreshadows the bloody future soon to come by having the wine resemble blood. The blood soon to come will affect everyone in the city and will also mark a big event in the future. He says, "The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there"(Dickens 22). The quote describes how the wine on the street foreshadows a bloody outbreak in the city. Dickens foreshadows the blood will come fast and remain for a long time in the city. In chapter five of A Tale of Two Cities Dickens thoroughly foreshadows the soon to come, bloody fate of the streets.