Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

Ecological Consciousness in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

Dr. S. C. Bamarani

Abstract :

  The Grapes of Wrath, one of John Steinbeck’s great experiments, explodes upon the American conscience in 1939, picturing the intimate reality of the Joads’ suffering and the plight of the Oklahoma Migrants. Steinbeck’s characters are always the ones connected to the natural environment. His troubled characters are frequently disassociated or ignorant of being part of a larger whole. Jim Casy and Tom Joad though troubled of the material pursuits, they find a way to come out of it only in wilderness. It is in the deep forest they find the ultimate truth of life. Tom Joad realize the philosophy from I toWE . The novel shows human history and natural history as intimately and intricately interdependent. It ings humankind down from its pride state as superior beings and makes not only the characters but also the readers to look at it as just one element in the ecological community

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Dr.S.C.Bamarani Ecological Consciousness in John Steinbeck¥s The Grapes of Wrath. Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 8 August 2015

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