Pitié pour les pauvres In a Tale of Two Cities, Book 1 Chapter 5, Dickens uses detail and diction to convey a pitiful tone to display the severe limitations of the freedoms in the lower class in France. After the wine spilt in the street and the peasants rushed into the street to drink it off the road, Dickens asserts “... lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even chomping the moister wine-rotted fragment with eager relish” (Bk. 1, Ch.5). The tone Dickens uses shows a lack of self-dignity that these peasants have because of the way they resort to drinking the wine by licking pieces of the barrel. Also revealing that Dickens is hoping to convey the peasants’ desperation through the detail in this passage. The detail in the passage gives