In Charles Dickens " A Tale of Two Cities " the mad character Madame Defarge got " REVOLUTION " right !

[“I tell thee,” said madame, extending her right hand, for emphasis, “that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops. I tell thee it is always advancing. Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know, consider the faces of all the world that we know, consider the rage and discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour.”] Madame Defarge answers her husband’s question: How long will it be before it is time for the revolution? Madame Defarge is confident that it is well on its way, comparing the anger of the oppressed people to how the energy of lightning gathers or how an earthquake prepares itself to destroy land. She asks him to consider all the people they know and the lives they lead, as they are all storing themselves up with rage that will soon burst in the form of a revolution.