Peasants vs. Ruling Class

The main difference between the peasants and ruling class would be the fact that the ruling class just doesn’t care. The peasants get upset and demand better treatment, but the ruling class couldn’t care less. Why should they? After all, they are the ruling class. A great example would be when the Marquis kills the man’s child and just throws him some money. Money can’t fix anything. The peasant knows that, so he throws the money back to the Marquis. Later, he gets revenge and kills the Marquis. Now, that may not be the best way to go about things, but in a sense the Marquis got what he deserved. Also, when Lucie tries to free her husband, Madame Defarge just sits there knitting like they aren’t discussing anything important, for all we know she is knitting Lucie’s name into the register. Madame Defarge doesn’t even care about the people whose names are on there where as Lucie begs for her husbands freedom. There are several instances throughout the book where the peasants show plenty of emotions while the ruling class seems to have no emotion at all.