Madame Defarge - Wikipedia Madame Defarge This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2010 ) Illustration by Fred Barnard of the Wine - Shop in St. Antoine ; Madame Defarge is seated with her knitting, her husband Ernest Defarge standing behind her Madame Defarge ( right ) and Miss Pross by Fred Barnard, 1870s Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a tricoteuse, a tireless worker for the French Revolution, and the wife of Ernest Defarge. She is one of the main villains of the novel, obsessed with revenge against the Evrémondes. She ruthlessly seeks revenge against the Evrémondes, including Charles Darnay, his wife, Lucie Manette, and their child, for crimes a prior generation of the Evrémonde family had committed. These crimes include the deaths of her nephew, sister, brother, father and brother - in - law. She refuses to accept the reality that Charles Darnay changed his ways by intending to renounce his title to the lands to give them to the peasants who worked on them, and his son Charles renounces his title to the lands which are given to the peasants ; however, Charles ' arrogant and snobbish uncle becomes the Marquis St. Evrémonde. His arrogance causes the death of an innocent child which makes him hated, and helps legitimize Defarge 's rage. Her consuming need for revenge against the innocent Darnay and his wife brings about her fatal doom by her own weapon at the hands of Miss Pross. Defarge symbolizes several themes. She represents one aspect of the Fates. The Moirai ( the Fates as represented in Greek mythology ) used yarn to measure out the life of a man, and cut it to end it ; Defarge knits, and her knitting secretly encodes the names of people to be killed. Defarge also symbolizes the nature of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution in which radical Jacobins engaged in mass political persecution of all real or supposed enemies of the Revolution who were executed on grounds of sedition to the new republic with the guillotine, particularly targeting people with aristocratic heritage. Portrayals in film and theater In the 1935 film A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is played by Blanche Yurka. In the 1958 film A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is played by Rosalie Crutchley. In the 1980 TV movie A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is played by Billie Whitelaw. In the 1981 Mel Brooks parody film, History of the World, Part I, Madame Defarge ( played by Cloris Leachman ) is the chief conspirator in the plot to overthrow King Louis XVI. She has become so poor, she has run out of wool, simply rubbing her knitting needles together. In the 2008 Broadway musical adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is played by Natalie Toro. Influences In the 2012 epic superhero film The Dark Knight Rises the character of Talia al Ghul played by Marion Cotillard was heavily influenced by the character of Madame Defarge. Also, in the same movie, the villain Bane can be seen sitting and knitting ( like Madame DeFarge ) in the audience of one of the `` trials '' presided over by Jonathan Crane, The Scarecrow. Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities Characters Sydney Carton Lucie Manette Charles Darnay Alexandre Manette Monsieur Ernest Defarge Madame Thérèse Defarge Jarvis Lorry Miss Pross Marquis St. Evrémonde John Barsad Jerry Cruncher Stryver The Seamstress Film A Tale of Two Cities ( 1911 ) A Tale of Two Cities ( 1917 ) A Tale of Two Cities ( 1922 ) The Only Way ( 1927 ) A Tale of Two Cities ( 1935 ) A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ) A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ) Musicals Two Cities ( 2006 ) A Tale of Two Cities ( 2007 ) This article about a fictional character from a novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article 's talk page. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Madame_Defarge&oldid=824944773 '' Categories : Fictional characters introduced in 1859 A Tale of Two Cities characters Literary villains Female characters in literature Female characters in film Novel character stubs Hidden categories : Articles lacking sources from December 2010 All articles lacking sources All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 10 February 2018, at 14 : 50. About Wikipedia

Question: who killed madame defarge in a tale of two cities
Answer: Miss Pross