What term best describes the woman from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens It was nothing to her that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers she saw not him but them?

Answer 1

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What term best describes the woman from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens:

"It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him, but them. It was nothing to her, that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punishment, because they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as such had no right to live. To appeal to her, was made hopeless by her having no sense of pity, even for herself. If she had been laid low in the streets, in any of the many encounters in which she had been engaged, she would not have pitied herself; nor, if she had been ordered to the axe to-morrow, would she have gone to it with any softer feeling than a fierce desire to change places with the man who sent here there."

Indifferent; hardened; resolute; steadfast; jaded; compassion-less; pitiless

Answer 2

The term that best describes this woman is indifferent or callous. She shows no sympathy for the innocent man facing death due to his family's actions, focusing instead on blaming his ancestors.