One way in witch the motives for the arab spring and for the french revolution are similar is that people wanted to

In both te Arab and France, commoners did not believe that they could live a better life and it took them years to realize this fact. In both the revolutions, common people got to know about the lifestyle of other people. The youth of both revolutions disagreed with their lifestyle and therefore, revolted. In both cases, there was high inflation and unemployment. Public speakings, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers were sources of information, in both the cases. The social, economic and political reasons were thus similar.