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Grapes of Wrath

As described in Hugh Holman’s A Handbook to Literature, naturalism is portrayed as man’s “endless and brutal struggle for survival” (337-339). Nunnally Johnson and John Ford’s movie The Grapes of Wrath portrays this same “animal nature of man,” but also adds to the definition by showing the instinctive nature for people to live rather than die. The struggle of the Joad family through plot shows the animal instinct of man to adapt to continual change during hard times for an individual’s survival, the lower working class of society shows through symbolism the need for man to help others for the survival of the whole population, and through the characterization of Ma and Pa shows the heavy emphasis that man puts on children during stressful times to insure the future survival of the whole species.
Throughout the movie the plot continually shows the struggles of the Joad family to survive for themselves and their families. From the very beginning of the movie the Jo...

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