Have imprinted this method of inflicting death deep on cultural memory.
The lasting symbol of the French Revolution is the guillotine. The executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, reinforced in literature by Dickens’s image of Madame Defarge sitting and knitting at the foot of this implacable machine, have imprinted this method of inflicting death deep on cultural memory.
Does the author mean Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities mentioned the death of the King and Queen by quillotine, so it becomes a cultural memory? Thanks!
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No. This text says merely that Dickens's image of Defarge reinforced the effect of the earlier royal executions.
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- This text says merely that Dickens's image of Defarge reinforced the effect of the earlier royal executions.
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No. This text says merely that Dickens's image of Defarge reinforced the effect of the earlier royal executions.
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