Explain how the beginning of this chapter foreshadows the end in A Tale of Two Cities.It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the...

You are right to identify the element of foreshadowing in
this excellent chapter, which is appropriately entitled "The Gorgon's Head" and is
Chapter Nine from Book II of this Dickensian classic. Of course, the allusion is to the
Gorgon from Greek Mythology, that could turn anything it looked at to stone. However, in
this chapter, the stoniness of the chateau likewise symbolises the stoniness in the
heart of Monsieur the Marquis and his emotional inability to see the poverty or connect
with the plight of the peasants that he abuses and exploits so readily, as indicated by
his complete lack of feeling for the peasant boy that he had killed in his carriage. His
death, at the end of the chapter, is described as an inevitable process, as the Gorgon
has returned and looked at the chateau again, adding a "stone face for which it had
waited through about two hundred years." Yet, at the same time, although the death of
Monsieur the Marquis is foreshadowed by the reference to stone at the beginning of the
chapter, this event also foreshadows the revolution and the rise of the working class to
overthrow the ruling aristocracy for their greed and abuse.