The third volume of A Tale of Two Cities takes place during the Reign of Terror, a part of the French Revolution where, between 1793 and 1794, a new French government applied the law. by executions condemned by corrupt courts. The passage “Along the streets of Paris” at the beginning of the last chapter “The footsteps fade away forever” describes a natural fall into the current state of France. At the time of the passage, Sydney Carton travels in a death cart used during the French Revolution to take prisoners to the guillotine) through the streets of Paris. Instead of focusing on Carton, who has recently experienced a Christ-like rebirth in "The Game Made" and is about to sacrifice his life for the Controllers, the passage generalizes the revolution itself and natural change of the people. “Along the streets of Paris in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities marks the transformation of France into chaotic turmoil during the Reign of Terror through symbolism, sound devices and religious allusions. Dickens uses symbols in the passage to represent parts of the revolutionary movement. . The Guillotine, for example, is personified as the leader of the Revolution; noted by the phrase: “six dump trucks carry the wine of the day to La Guillotine”. (Dickens 376) Wine, which in the novel represents blood - referenced in the "Wine Shop" on page 30 - is also an allusion to the Greek god of wine and chaos, Dionysus who traditionally receives a ritual sacrifice of wine from of his disciples. Like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, Dionysus partied with the maenads (similar to the animal aristocracy at Monseigneur's feast on pages 107-108) throughout the seasons, until Dionysus and the maenads are drunk; at that time, the Maenads tore...... middle of paper ...... the Enlightenment values ​​supporting the Revolution were in reality a mark of advanced society. The Enlightenment promoted natural law and order, a reasoning that inspired the French Revolution. However, by noting the chaos within the Revolution, Dickens implies the hypocrisy of the Enlightenment. In the age of reason, the people acted without it, which contributed to the chaotic state of France. The passage suggests a pattern in nature whereby chaos has formed because a natural order has been destroyed. In fact, "In the Streets of Paris" plays a cause and effect role in the book as a whole by questioning whether the transformation was avoidable and asserting through the Dionysian sacrifice of wine to the guillotine that humanity was doomed to chaos under the reign of Paris. Terror since the taste of the wine spilled by the peasants in the first book “The Wine Shop ».”