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Foreshadowing in A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens uses foreshadowing in A Tale of Two Cities to warn of three upcoming events. The use of foreshadowing leads to a heightened level of suspense and curiosity, which urge the reader to continue on in a quest to solve the mystery. The first use of foreshadowing is the breaking of the wine cask in Chapter Five of Book One. The wine is spilled on the same street as the plotters of the revolution live. The cask erupted out front of the Defarge’s wine shop, the same place from which the revolution would erupt. The blood-red wine stained the ground that it had fallen on. It stained red the hands of those who touched it, the mouths of those who drank it, and those who were the greediest acquired a “tigerish” smear around their mouths. This is the ground that would be reddened by the blood of many nobles and the thirsty peasants were the same that would shed and stain their hands red with so much blood. When all of the wine has been scooped up and there was none left, a tall joker named Gaspard writes on the wall of a building the word BLOOD with his wine covered finger. After the Marquis de Evre