A Tale of Two Cities

(Book 2 Chapters 7-13) Another allusion is a reference to the Gorgon’s head. The Gorgon is from Greek mythology. Look up the gorgons and find out what power they had. Explain it here.

(Book 2 Chapters 7-13)

Another allusion is a reference to the Gorgon’s head. The Gorgon is from Greek mythology. Look up the gorgons and find out what power they had. Explain it here.

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A Gorgon was a woman with hair made of snakes and whose gaze turned the beholder into stone. The most famous Gorgon was Medusa. The identification of a Gorgon's gaze with Monseigneur's house is apt, highlighting the viciousness of the ancient regime (the name for the "old rule" of the monarch and aristocrats in feudal France).

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