In A Tale of Two Cities, wine is used as a symbol for escape. The wine was always involved when it came to escape from the norm. The wine cask breaking in front of the Defarges' is a good example of this, as is Manette's being recalled to life. The revolution itself can also be tied to the wine. The final example of this would be the character Syndey Carton.
When the wine cask broke in front of Defarge's shop, the people quickly rushed up to drink it. They abandoned their work for a few moments to drink the wine that pooled in the streets, and playfully drank it up. The people went back to their work and normal lives, but they were all already stained with the spilled wine This meant that they would later turn to this source to get relieve from their lives. In this instance, the wine also symbolized the revolution to come, and how the people used it as an excuse to escape their meaningless and pitiful existences.
Defarges wine shop was the place of another escape that......
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