Презентация на тему The Winter of Our Discontent. By John Steinbeck

- Olive Hamilton and John Ernest Steinbeck
Wrote for

his high school newspaper and knew by age 14 he wanted to be a writer
1919 Enrolled at Stanford University and became interested in Biology
1925 Left Stanford after 6 years with no degree and moved to NY City to take a job a laborer and journalist
1929 Moved back to California and settled in Lake Tahoe.

II war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune
1947-

made the first of many trips to the Soviet Union
December 20, 1968, - died in New York City on of heart disease.

- First commercial and critical success with
Tortilla Flat. 
1936-

1939 - Wrote 3 novels devoted to labor issues
In Dubois Battle Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
1943 - 1945 - Writing focus turns to the war
The Moon Is Down
Cannery Row
1945-1951 - Several of his novels are turned into
screen plays
1966 - Final novel - The Winter of Our Discontent

Works

screen plays, 3 travel narratives, a translation and 2

published journals

Focused on group behavior earlier and then focused on individual moral responsibility to one’s self and community

Believed that characters must be seen in relation to their environment

Opened people’s eyes to the harsh realities of life in rural America

Wrote two War novels to encourage patriotism

of Wrath”
“East of Eden”
“Travels with Charley”

Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940)
King

Haakon VII Liberty Cross (1946)
Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters (1948)
Nobel Prize for Literature for his realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception; (1962)
Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library (1964)
United States Medal of Freedom (1964)
Press Medal of Freedom (1964)
Member of the National Arts Council (1966)
California Hall of Fame (2007)

the dispossessed

victims of the elements, selfishness, environment and property

defective,

physically and mentally inferior characters

Discourse from multiple points of view (Chapters 1,2,11,12);

and first

person narrative from a single point of view (the rest of the book).

Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of this novel, as

he seeks to be successful in a world where seemingly the only way of gaining that success is to engage in illegal acts.

our discontent made glorious by the sun of York”

Richard

III
(William Shakespeare)

full extent and shows us the world around him.
The

other characters in the story are drawn very lightly, offering a limited view of their feelings.
One of the main stylistic features of the novel is immense reference to Shakespeare.
The net of symbols helps the author highlight different peculiarities of characters and scenes:
MATTIE’S RED SCARF AND RED RIBBON
THE CAT AND THE PICKLE DISH
THE FINAL SLED RUN

an ironic novel with complex moral and psychological problems.

…

a response to the growing atmosphere of social, spiritual and moral degradation