Emma Goldman once said, "No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action." When faced with tyranny and oppression, revolution is indeed inevitable. Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, portrays a poor French people, oppressed and miserable, who ultimately and inevitably rise up to overthrow the aristocracy through the bloody French Revolution. Throughout the novel, Dickens uses several instances of imagery and symbolism. The most significant of these symbols - the wine, the storm and the bloody grindstone - foreshadow and show the inevitability of the French Revolution.

The initial symbol used to foreshadow the revolution is the wine, which represents blood. Moreover, the wine was spilled in the house of Monsieur Defarge, one of the head revolutionary "Jacques." As the narrator tells us, "a large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in...