He is not blinded by class hatred and retains his conscience and sense of fairness. Defarge represents the more rational aspect of the Revolution. His wife interprets his scruples as weakness, giving the reader the impression that before long revolutionaries such as Jacques Three will turn on Defarge and send him to the guillotine himself. He bases his desire for revolution more upon a desire for positive change than the bloodthirst of his wife, as demonstrated when he resists denouncing Doctor Manette, Lucie, and young Lucie simply because of their relationship to Darnay. As a revolutionary leader, Defarge organizes the Jacquerie and helps lead the mob in storming the Bastille. However, when the Doctor was newly released from prison, Defarge was not above exploiting his insanity as a spectacle to further the revolutionary cause. Defarge was Doctor Alexandre Manette's servant as a young man, and he seems to have a filial reverence for him during the Revolution.
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