About Me
- Madame Defarge
- Why "Madame Defarge"? Well, Madame Defarge, like Lady Macbeth, is a very misunderstood character. When I think of her I don't think of any of the descriptions usually applied to her: villainous, ruthless, evil, unsympathetic. Instead I think: knitting, wine, politics, feminism, which makes her quite a bit like me, actually. (Some scholars really do credit the impetus for feminism and female emancipation to the political changes wrought by the French Revolution.) Come on, a take-no-prisoners, wine-drinking, compulsive knitter? I bet she was a blast.
