Materialism and Inhumanity in John steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and The Pearl

• INTRODUCTION
  
• CHAPTER I :
  
• A MOUNTING ACQUISITIVENESS
  
  • 1 - THE INFLUENCE OF CAPITALISM
    
  • 2 - AN ACQUISITIVE COMMUNITY
    
• CHAPTER II :
  
• DRAWBACKS OF MECHANIZATION
  
  • 1 - A NEW AGRARIAN SYSTEM
    
  • 2- MAN'S CRUELTY TO MAN
    
    • A - SELFISHNESS AND HYPOCRISY
      
    • B - THE TRAGEDY OF THE SURVIVORS
      
      • Through this economic warning, rich landlords take all preventative actions to avoid a possible revolving of the situation. It is in this purpose that one can remind Paul Samuelson's speech in front of the American Congress saying that «Economics is such an inexact science and the future is so unpredictable»4
        
• CHAPTER III :
  
• ANALYSIS OF THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
  
  • 1 - LANGUAGE
    
  • 2 - MOOD
    
• CONCLUSION
  
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
  • - The World of Li'l Abner, USA, Penguin Books Edition, 1965