How did Thomas Carlyle interpret the French Revolution?

Thomas Carlyle interpreted the French Revolution as an inevitable divine judgment upon the selfishness and folly of the French monarchy and nobility. Viewing history as a form of "Divine Scripture," he framed the revolution as a grand, tragic drama where the excesses of the ruling class were met with a catastrophic reckoning.12

In his three-volume narrative, The French Revolution, Carlyle utilized a doom-laden, fiery prose style to depict the collapse of the old order. He balanced this overarching moral interpretation with extensive historical research and vivid character studies, such as those of General Lafayette and Robespierre. While his work was widely acclaimed for its dramatic power and helped inspire Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, contemporary readers were often puzzled by the prophetic and sometimes ambiguous nature of his commentary.12