JOHN STEINBECK: THE GRAPES OF WRATH

The Grapes of Wrath is epic in its recognition of the plight of American migratory workers – specifically, the “Okies”, driven westward by the industrialization of their Oklahoma farms – as but one more symbolic event in man’s eternal search for the promised land. A tract against social injustice, which aroused vigorous protest and defense from those who thought of it only as fictionalized propaganda, it has remained after the controversy died down, an American epic, a culmination expression of the spiritual and material forces that had discovered and settled a continent. The present critical study examines and explores the various aspects of the novel. At the end, numerous critical and textual problem arising therefrom have been attempted from the point of view of examination requirements of our university students. Shakti Batra has been Vice-principal, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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