TGOW Critics - Morality - Flashcards in A Level and IB English Literature

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Created on: 09-01-17 21:31

Griffin and Freedman

"Steinbeck finds the used car business prying on the need to move out and move on quickly, an apt representation for the exploitation of those who have not yet been able to accommodate"

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Keough

"Explore various forms of class stratification and prejudice to reveal social structures based upon immoral conduct"

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McElderry

"In Steinbeck's eyes, the Joad's are all good people. They may be weakly good ... or strongly good... But their ill fortune is never represented as due to their own tragic flaws."

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McElderry

"all persons in power or authority - with the exception of the director of the government camp - are represented as evil"

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Crockett

"[Tom's] principle role is that of Moses, the leader of the people"

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Dougherty

"There is a substantial agreement that Jim Casey is a Christ like figure, and on the other hand there is a distinct sense that he is not adequate to the role"

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Crockett

"Literally as well as figuratively he [Casey] takes upon himself the 'sins' of his people and goes to jail in Tom's place"

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Carpenter

"The tragedy in Grapes of Wrath consists in the breakup of the family , the new moral of this novel is that love of all people - if it be unselfish - may even supersede the love of famliy"

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Henderson

Steinbeck "outlined a vision of moral purity and impending political power" and "wrote into the situation a sort of moral regeneration of American Society, borne on the backs of its most beleaguered members"

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Griffin and Willian

"The tractors that shove the croppers off their land are not inherently evil; they are simply the symptoms of unfair exploitation"

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McElderry

"Steinbeck's real interest- his subconscious motivation - is to express his basic faith in mankind, in the courage, the endurance and the kindliness of people like the Jaods and to show their passionate yearning for opportunity and for justice"

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Card 2

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"Explore various forms of class stratification and prejudice to reveal social structures based upon immoral conduct"

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Keough

Card 3

Front

"In Steinbeck's eyes, the Joad's are all good people. They may be weakly good ... or strongly good... But their ill fortune is never represented as due to their own tragic flaws."

Back

Card 4

Front

"all persons in power or authority - with the exception of the director of the government camp - are represented as evil"

Back

Card 5

Front

"[Tom's] principle role is that of Moses, the leader of the people"

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TGOW Critics - Morality