Flight | 'Flight': What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?
In the following excerpt, John H. Timmerman discusses how Steinbeck's use of thematic patterns and images effectively portrays the main protagonist as a person whose powerful spirit enables him to rise above "the animal in man.''
Steinbeck's interest in marine biology was inflamed to a passion in the early 1930s. The sea, with its endless surgings and its proliferation of life, would remain a powerful influence upon his life and art throughout his career. We can acknowledge the homing quiet and...
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