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About This Novel
"The Grapes of Wrath" is the masterpiece of Steinbeck, the famous American writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature. The novel tells the story of a large number of farmers who went bankrupt and fled during the economic panic in the United States in the 1930s. The writer once followed farmers in Oklahoma as they wandered to California, and what he saw along the way shocked him. With his realistic writing style, he detailedly and thoroughly displayed that unforgettable special period in American history. As soon as the work came out, it caused panic among the powerful elites in various states at that time. Many states banned the publication of the novel. None of this can change the huge influence of "The Grapes of Wrath". To this day, it still occupies an unshakable and important position in the history of modern American literature.
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Exposes the increasingly severe capitalist problems in the United States from the last century to the present
Through the perspective of a bankrupt poor farmer, the author exposes the injustice of the American capitalist society at that time. Among them, people can learn about the land annexation in the United States, which is no different from that in Chinese history (90% of the land in the United States is now concentrated in large companies and chaebols). Through this work, people can also feel the "killing line trap" of capitalism that has not changed from that time to now. The shortcomings of this work are also pointed out in the preface: the author himself did not conduct a dialectical criticism of this cannibalistic system, and still had luck with the federal government. This also fully demonstrates the compromising nature of the author, Little Bourgeois. All in all, this book is essential reading for Marxists who need to understand capitalist exploitation in North America.
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Official(3)Scraped 29d ago
Dade 333
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666 3 3 3
Exposes the increasingly severe capitalist problems in the United States from the last century to the present
Through the perspective of a bankrupt poor farmer, the author exposes the injustice of the American capitalist society at that time. Among them, people can learn about the land annexation in the United States, which is no different from that in Chinese history (90% of the land in the United States is now concentrated in large companies and chaebols). Through this work, people can also feel the "killing line trap" of capitalism that has not changed from that time to now. The shortcomings of this work are also pointed out in the preface: the author himself did not conduct a dialectical criticism of this cannibalistic system, and still had luck with the federal government. This also fully demonstrates the compromising nature of the author, Little Bourgeois. All in all, this book is essential reading for Marxists who need to understand capitalist exploitation in North America.
