The patterns of damnation woven by Madame Defarge echo Lucie's golden threads in binding prisoners to their fate. Her desire for revolution and revenge is so strong that Madame Defarge has little compassion for anyone else. Lucie's appeals to this "sister-woman" (368) are ignored because, having seen "her sister-woman suffer" (369), Madame Defarge does not deem "the troubles of a wife and mother likely to occur" (369 ). it means a lot. This doubling of the sister-woman reiterates the fact that Madame Defarge acts out of revenge for her dead sister, which gives her the strength and will to fight. Revenge, even if the “complementary name” (305) of another personifies the spirit of the revolution and reveals the darker side of Madame Defarge in her belief that women “can kill as much as men” ((296) and in use of “her cruel knife” (302). Madame Defarge may represent the growing power of women but, through her actions, she loses all sense of female domesticity. This increases the contrast between her and Lucie and shows that she is a corrupt version of that by Lucie