The Grapes Of Wrath

Question 1

New labour (2009) by Tony Blair

Answer 1

Advocated a balance of pro-American, pro-minority & socially caring policies. Aimed to appeal to all social classes but above all tried to capture new white-coloured middle clas from Thatcher.

Question 2

Wall St.crash

Answer 2

National into economic crises, panic & despair. US entered war in 1941

Question 3

Okies

Answer 3

As California caped then we’re refugee farm families from the southern plains who migrated to California in the 1930s to escape ruin of Great Depression & the dust bowl

Question 4

Jeffersonian Agrarianism

Answer 4

Tenants say they know the land, worked the land, born & died on the land- this is why they can’t leave.

Question 5

Dust Bowl

Answer 5

Created by a severe drought during the 1930s- Steinbeck exposes the land & the struggle - Steinbeck targets the illiterate fault.

Question 6

Emmersonian idea

Answer 6

Idea of the overspill & how Jim Casy says “we are all part of one another”.

Question 7

Key ideas

Answer 7

Grandpas death- Shift in patriarchy
Land- personified to be living
Bank/ tractors- monsters: inhumanity of care of land
- Many people were in dire straits suffering deeply patriarchy in winter of 1932-33 where they needed to find money for fuel, for & clothing.

Question 8

The new deal

Answer 8

In the US from 1933 til the early 1940s:the banking system entirely of a capitalist economy as you get.

Question 9

Critic: Blades

Answer 9

“The novel picks apart the wilful optimism of the pioneer & questions the limits of the individual (Israelite ideals). “Unfortunately even though the Israel’s were successful, the Joads never really found ‘promised land’ “.

Question 10

Critic Blades: Collectivism V. Individualism

Answer 10

Collectivism is the practise of giving a group priority over each individual in it. The ownership of land & means of production by people.

Question 12

Critic: Harold Bloom

Answer 12

“We come to believe the Joads go on mostly because of Ma’s firm matriarchal will”

Question 13

Steinbeck

Answer 13

“I’ve done my damnest to rip the readers nerves to rags - I don’t want him satisfied”

Question 15

Critic Hughes

Answer 15

“Steinbeck countered the idealism of the frontier” (social commentary exposing the reality of the idea of “manifest destiny”.

Question 16

Ma as citadel quote

Answer 16

“It ain’t good for folks to break up”.