It is thus significant that Harlow brings Madame Defarge to accompany her on her new life of ideologically-motivated “domestic terrorism.” In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is a participant in the French Revolution, and one who symbolizes the violent, ruthless nature of the movement. This turn of events is a hint toward the fictional character after whom the dummy is named. However, Harlow insists on taking Madame Defarge out to a bar with them, and toward the end of the novel Rosemary discovers that Harlow has stolen Madame Defarge when she runs away to join the Animal Liberation Front with Lowell. At first, Rosemary is reluctant about taking out Madame Defarge, both because she feels guilty about touching someone else’s property and because she finds the dummy off-putting and eerie. Madame Defarge is a ventriloquist’s dummy that Rosemary and Harlow find inside the suitcase Rosemary is mistakenly given after the airline loses her own.
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