In A Tale of Two Cities, how does the author demonstrate that conflict causes a cycle of oppression?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Opening his great novel, A Tale of Two
Cities, with the paradox "It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times" Dickens himself answers the question of how conflict can cause oppression.  In
England, whose intractable laws were also in the superlative degree, the oppression of
the ruling classes wrought conflict with the poor who suffered from poverty and were
often sentenced to death for very slight offences.  While there were yet some who
continued petty crimes in order to survive, the oppressive rule of the upper class of
England generated a retaliatory breed of highway robbers and murderers whose lawlessness
wrought, in turn, the oppression of the ruling
class.  

Similarly, in France, with the callous subjugation
of the peasantry to the most dire of existences, the struggle of the poor against the
aristocracy--"the best of times, the worst of times"--, figuratively portrayed with the
incident of the Marquis d'Evremonde's tossing of the coin to the father of the child run
over by his recklessly driven carriage, a vicious conflict arises.  And, as a result,
this conflict generates the bloody French Revolution with the symbolic personage of the
Vengeance and the figurative Jacques depicting the punitive revenge and deadly
exploitation that the peasants, now in control of France, take against the once
oppressive aristocracy.