ENG 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Papyrus 74, Mother Goddess, Manifest Destiny
7 Sep 2016
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Man vs machine: reinterpreting & repossessing eden in the grapes of wrath. 1930s - 1939 - environmental and economic devastation. Steinbeck was commenting on what he thought gave rise to the issues of the 30s his book was a litmus test of where america was then. Structure of the novel - in odd number chapters, he switches between macroscopic view of the country, in even numbered chapters, he gives the microscopic chapters and talks about the joads. Almost a work of investigative journalism - steinbeck did the trips the joads took. He worked in the fields alongside them is a rebuke of capitalism. When the film was being made, the studio sent out investigators to see if what. Steinbeck was saying was true, they actually found that it was worse. What the country was like at the time. 25% unemployment rate across us, some cities at 80% Breadlines, shanty towns and shacks popped up all over the country.
