Brief Summary Of The Film 'Germinal'

If one wants to see what a society is like, they need only take a look at the media. Literature and other forms of art are often very accurate representations of what certain society’s value. Germinal is one such example, it is a story depicting the daily lives of French miners, and the mine owners in a capitalist society. It shows the lives that the rich led versus the lives of the poor and suffering. Not only did it contrast the different quality of living that each group had, but it also showed where on the political spectrum that the miners, and the mine owners stood on based on their wealth and social standing in their lives. The mine owners in Germinal are classical liberals when you put them on a political spectrum. Those that identify with classical liberalism are usually wealthy and benefit from an individualistic economy. They are against government intervention, as that would mean they would lose their wealth, classical liberals believe that every …show more content…
Lantier recognizes that just because his first attempt at changing the system failed did not mean that every attempt that would take place in the future would as well. He talks about how there would come a day when those like him would come together in a union that would be permitted by law and get themselves the rights that they deserved. The rest of his speech talks about how despite the fact that the movement he had tried to set up failed, there was only so much time left before workers everywhere banded together to fight back against a system that worked to keep the poor and oppressed. The stage had been set for change to start happening, and there was only so long that the oppressors could keep down the oppressed before the workers teamed up together and pushed forwards for the change that needed to