In John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, symbolism holds a very crucial part in telling the story. ... The symbols in The Grapes of Wrath help explain the themes of the novel. ... Since grapes will burst when they get too ripe, the use of the phrase "grapes of wrath- represents what the migrants will do with their bitterness and frustrations with the California farmers. ... The good, fresh grapes that they dream of soon turn into bad, rotten grapes of wrath and bitterness since their journey turns into more of an obstacle course full of deaths and saddness. ... The flood at the end o...

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1 Author John Steinbeck sends a serious message to readers in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. He says that society must take a look at the past to reveal valuable lessons to be learned about the future. If society does not recognize the mistakes of the past, then society can be liable to repea...

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Grapes of Wrath, Oresteia, Things Fall Apart, 1984, all written to achieve a certain purpose. ... If Aeschylus were gay, which he might have been, it would change the entire meaning of the Oresteia. ...

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