1; (Zola 234). Like two competing male animals, Etienne and Rosseneur are vying for the attention of the crows. They each take extreme positions, trying to influence the people to follow them. In either case, neither position has positive benefits for the people. In any and every case, capitalism is present. Not only is it present, its presence turns the bourgeois, the miners, and even Etienne into animal-like beings. In each case, it only leads to the downfall of the people. The bourgeois suffered in lost profits, the miners go hungry, and Etienne could lose everything if the strike fails. Capitalism turns people into animals and then takes all of their belongings – however few ...
