Marxist Philosophy and "Germinal"

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The paper analyzes the Marxist French film "Germinal" (1994) and concludes that the premise of the proletariat and the bourgeois remain the central issues of class division that occur within. In the struggles that occurs between the workers and the company, there is a developing realization by the leading character, Etienne, and those around him that they must fight for their rights. Thus the film explores the relationships between the exploited proletariat and the ruling bourgeois. The conditions are atrocious and the employers do not care. The paper looks at Marxist philosophy and shows how this applies to the plot of the plot.

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"This study will analyze the film Germinal (1994), directed by Claude Berri, and based on the self-titled novel Germinal by Emile Zola. In this film, the problems of Marxist philosophy explore the relationships between the exploited proletariat and the ruling bourgeois that run the mining village these people live within. In this manner, the clash between the owners of the mining company and the workers becomes a Marxist problem related to the exploitation of the proletariat and their plot to overthrow their bourgeois employers, as well as the government. The beginning of the film has Etienne Lantier wandering hopelessly around France without a job and without food and shelter. Zola has him begging for food at times, and also, he becomes enrapt in the idea of employment in coal mining when he sees newspapers and signs."

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