The+Peasant+Class


 * Question:** What did the peasant believe in when they were suffering?

Peasants are known as small farmers of low social rank, or farm laborers. They didn’t even had the power to be part running the country. Since they were in low social rank, they were expected o pay taxes serve the king. They were not like the nobles who had rich amount of food. They were not like nobles who had beautiful fancy looking clothes. They were very poor and everyday was a challenge for them.
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During the French Revolution, while the high social rank people, such as King Louis XVI and the queen were having party with plenty amount of food to feed everyone, outside in the town was a chaos. The population started to decrease from starvation. To survive, people started to steal food from the shops and they would even take away food from innocent people. Bread was the food that peasants and all social rank people ate. One bread represented person’s life. However, as soon as the price of flour increased, peasants didn’t have enough money to buy them.
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 * Plenty Amount of Food for Nobles ||

The castle where all the high social rank people lived was very safe. Unlike the safe castle, the town outside was very dangerous. Not only because of starvation, people died because of diseases. A common disease was plague. While peasants were having hard time, the nobles didn’t need to worry. They even had doctors and all the medical things to cure people, when peasants couldn’t do anything with their illness. Since they didn’t have any medicine, it led to death.
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 * Peasants Suffering from Plague ||

During the time of the division of classes, peasants were suffering and were willing to survive from starvation and disease. At this point of struggling, they had only hope. The hope was to believe in God. They believed that it would be safe if they believed in God. Peasants believed that the God would guide their way to survive and prevents them from death.

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