Tale of Two Cities: 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 and immoral
actions by high ranking officials, was basically saying that the things that
fueled the revolution in France, the crushing of humanity and rapacious license
and oppression, if used in a similar manner somewhere else would have the same
result. In this case he was probably thinking of his native country of England,
but in truth it could happen in any country that practiced the same methods that
France did.

The peasants in France were beaten down by the nobility and treated like the
scum......

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