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FOSTERING AND PRESERVING THE STRENGTH AND DIGNITY OF A MAN WITH REFERENCE TO JUANA IN JOHN STEINBECK’S THE PEARL L. Ravi Shankar, Ph. D. Associate Professor of English, Arignar Anna Government Arts College, Villupuram 605 602.
John Steinbeck was a prolific and popular writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. His strength as an artist lies as much in converting the topical into universal. Steinbeck’s women characters are stronger than their male counterparts. They try to be perfect counterparts to their men by making active contribution to their domestic, social, economic and political life. Undoubtedly, their prime concern is their duty towards their family, but they are not blind to the happenings around. A living example of it is Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Juana in The Pearl (1947). For instance, one may perceive both the angel and the tigress in Ma Joad and Juana. This paper aims to study on how Juana as a representative of womankind plays the role of fostering and preserving the strength and dignity of his man, Kino in the novella The Pearl. Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
John Steinbeck was a prolific and popular writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He has been variously called a mystic, primitive and a naturalist, but one character was constant: he was a good storyteller. Steinbeck’s simple, touching novella The Pearloriginally appeared in the magazine Woman’s Home Companion in 1945 under the title “The Pearl of the World”. This novel features a simple, visually evocative style that in many ways recalls the narrative flow of a film. Additionally, its simple prose style echoes the traditional style of a moral parable, particularly the biblical parables of Jesus. Its evocation of natural beauty and its use of the short, simple parable form may have influenced Ernest Hemingway in writing The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Set in Mexican Indian village on the Baja Peninsula, the novella tells the story of Kino, an Indian pearl driver who discovers a massive, beautiful, and extremely valuable pearl. The pearl fills Kino with a new desire to abandon his simple, idyllic life in favour of dreams of material and social advancement. Kino, the protagonist of the novella, is a dignified, hardworking, impoverished native. He is a simple man who lives in a brush house with his wife, Juana and their infant son, Coyotito, both of whom he loves very much. After he finds the great pearl, he becomes increasingly ambitious and desperate in his mission to break free Copyright © 2017, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies