Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. Essay on the Roots of Revolution

The roots of the revolution, according to Dickens, are rapacious license and oppression by the nobility. 'Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar manners, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind' - P347, Book III, Ch15. Dickens, who lived in England where there were many unjust punishments …

…can let the air out gradually through the place where you blow it. If the nobility has lessened the oppression and created more humane environment then they probably would not have lost their heads. The strength and will power of the poor is far greater than that of others and the peasantry in France clearly had a greater will and strength than the nobility. ''There is prodigious strength.........in sorrow and despair' Pg.306, Dr. Manette