While at the beginning of the novel we have a dark atmosphere at the end the main character goes into beautiful light, carrying the hope for a better tomorrow. The novel is filled with contrast from the beginning till the end. He leaves the same way he came and that is with many dreams about justice in the society. This meaning is linked with the last scene in which Etienne goes away from the small village. Even the word germinal has a meaning and it is the month of the republican calendar. Voreux comes from the Latin word vorax and that means "the one that devours". In the names, we can even find some metaphors such as the name of the mine Voreux. In "Germinal" he picked the names of the characters carefully because he was trying to make a point and show his irony through their names. Next to the mentioned family Zola showed all of them social layers during the Second Empire. In 20 novel Zola described the failing of certain members of the family Rougon-Macquart due to a heritable burden. It was the time when many miners went on strike because they wanted a change in their lifestyle. The events described ate based on a true story that happened in France in 1884.
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