The violence of evil in Émile Zola's Germinal

The study of this subject allows us to highlight important social issues found in several works such as Émile ZOLA's novel "Germinal", a work that faithfully reflects reality by revealing tragic subjects proper to man, he describes the daily life of the poor by talking about moods, violent acts... The question of violence in general is ultra-present, appearing to the reader as a primordial social subject, revealing very serious aggressive behavior and equally firm ideologies. First of all, violence is any case of breakdown, aggression, splintering, destruction and radical upheaval of society, resulting from the illicit and illogical acts of individuals. It sees itself as an illegitimate war on society, and is represented in our corpus as a collective miners' problem to which we turn our gaze on the mine, the oppressed miners and their desire to establish a stable life. But in some cases, this violence appears as a panacea and a solution to their suffering and ills.

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