What's the Story?

For A Tale of Two Cities, I feel that Dickens wrote the novel as his way of interpreting the French Revolution and how the attitude of the French bourgeois is eerily similar to that of the English. And, as demonstrated by the attitudes of the Revolutionists, there will be consequences if you continually stomp on the lower classes. By continually comparing the French to the English "There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of England; there was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France." he is sending a warning, if not a social criticism, of the English elite. Also, by continually juxtaposing antonyms in the beginning phrase "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" he is able to establish the idea that life isn't the same for everyone. While it may be the best of times for the bourgeois, it may also be the worst of times for the lower class. In an essence, it is a foreshadowing of events to occur later in the plot. And finally, there is continual foreshadowing. Whether it be the wine spilling, or Lucie and Carton hearing footsteps, there is foreshadowing of things to come, events beyond our control. Which leads to the French Revolution.