The Embodiment of Symbolism, Realism and Naturalism in The Grapes of Wrath

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10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

symbolism, realism, naturalism, The Grapes of Wrath, conflict, social commitment

Abstract

The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for John Steinbeck. The following paper is a study of the artistic characteristics running through the novel. The Grapes of Wrath is the historically authentic story of the Joad family; Oklahoma farmers dispossessed of their land and forced to become migrant farmers in California. Steinbeck’s majority novels had the theme of social realism, but The Grapes of Wrath has been considered the best example. It is also a sympathetic description exhorting us for greater social commitment and compassion as well as formulating policies of equality and justice. In the novel great feelings for nature, land, wilderness, mountains and shores were found to show the nature of Americans. The paper aims to explain the viewpoint that symbolism, realism and naturalism are well incorporated and embodied in The Grapes of Wrath.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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