She is the mistress of the dilapidated wine shop in the Saint Antoine district, yet this shop is a key hub that generates not only the innocent but the most powerful hurricane of those bloody winds of the Revolution. Madam Defarge knits her knitting all day. But the thread in her hand is actually a list of names for that relentless massacre to be inflicted upon the aristocracy. She carries the grace of a killer with her cold-bloodedness. She merely observes her surroundings from where she sits and notes every small tremor in her brain. She is a character who has become so monstrous that she can sever the head of a despot like Foulon—who mocked the hunger of the people—with terrible pleasure while keeping it under her own feet. She feels that even her husband, Ernest Defarge, is slow compared to the speed of the tiger in her own heart. In her eyes, neither the 18-year tragedy suffered by Doctor Manette nor the weeping of blonde-haired Lucie matters. She is the symbol of savage and extremely loyal justice of a revolution that cannot accept any heart finding peace before the 'Magnet Rock' is toppled.
Behind her past, which looks as innocent as a small-town wine shop wife, lies the blood memory of a people crushed, harassed, and raped on the lands of the nobles (especially the Evremonde brothers). She has turned all her feelings about her past into stone, becoming a bloody machine of Saint Antoine, transforming her hatred grown over years in her heart into the brain of the transition from bondage to revolution.
She is a remarkably strong, powerful, and intimidating woman with careful, piercing dark eyes, a determined face with firm lines, and a slightly plump complexion, adorned with rings on her fingers. She always walks with the grace of an angel of death, a small sign rose in her hair and her knitting in her hand.
Miss Pross
The fanatical protective aunt who tries to look after her home and her 'lamb', yet will later realize the cruelty of her intimidation.
Charles Darnay
To her, he is never Darnay, but the main enemy carrying the blood of Evremonde, whose name she stitches onto her list in a single loop without a second thought.
Ernest Defarge
Her comrade-in-arms with whom she leads a life, whose power she respects, but whom she must always control and temper due to the old gratitude (his weakness for the Manette family) in his heart.
Dr. Alexandre Manette
Although he is a figure whose service her husband was formerly in and holds no meaning for her own hatred, he is a target who benefits from the fame that his name carries.