1.“It was the best of times…”Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette, in the wake of the French Revolution, happily married in England. (Book II, chapter 18) Their marriage forged the bonds of love between the two and brought children into their family. For them, being able to live with their loved one and being able to caress their children was the most beautiful thing. They were unaware of the unleashed anger of the peasants in France, and the timing for them could not have been better. Bastille and ruthlessly beheaded the prison governor. While the breaching of the Bastille was not unjustified, the relentless murder of a man trying to do his duty reflected the ruthless spirits of the rebels, mad and seething with rage like a bull. The act might have seemed inconsequential then, but it would soon spark the bloody revolution in which the suspect would also be killed. Indeed, the assault and assassination of the governor marked the beginning of the “worst times,” when order was replaced by chaos, when peace was replaced by violence.3. “It was the age of wisdom…” To Charles During Darnay's first trial in France on charges of being an emigrant, Dr. Manette skillfully used his camaraderie with the madding crowd to free Charles. (Book III, Chapter 6) Manette had been an wronged prisoner in the Bastille accused by Evremonde and, using his eminence and his relationship with Darnay, was able to manipulate the jury. Manette's wisdom saved his son-in-law.4.“It was the age of madness…” As the Revolution progresses, more and more people are executed every day (“Fifty-two,” in Book III, chapter 13) and the bloody de.. .... half of the card ......urias suited to the state of a marquis in a luxurious age and country... stood out in their rich furnishings... diversified by many objects which were illustrations of old pages in the history of France". (Book II, chapter 9) The marquis's house was large, extravagant, and ornate: it had everything.10. “We had nothing before us…” In Book I, chapter 5, a barrel of wine was overturned on the ground and the people “suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine.” The people's ravenous drinking reflects their hungry stomachs, their emptiness: "they devoted themselves to the soggy, lime-stained bits of the barrel, licking and even chewing the wetter and more rotten bits of wine with greedy gusto." Even a drop of wine was worth it. The nothingness that existed for most ordinary people would help incite the French Revolution.