Grapes Of Wrath Biblical Allusions Essay -- John Steinbeck Bible Relig

John Steinbeck carefully molded his story The Grapes of Wrath to encompass umteenthemes and ideas. He included several Biblical allusions to enforce his message of themigrating families flood tide together to form a community. Steinbeck alludes to Biblicalcharacters through Jim Casy and Rose of Sharon, events standardized the familys journey toCalifornia and the flood at the end of the novel, and teachings end-to-end the novel. The Biblical allusions represented by the characters in the novel are most(prenominal)obvious in the characters of Jim Casy and Rose of Sharon. However, the Joad familyis made up of twelve including Connie, much like the twelve disciples that followedJesus. Connie represents the traitor, the Judas figure who had betrayed Jesus thenight of his arrest when he walks out on his family for selfish reasons. Jim Casy is an allusion to Jesus Christ. They have the same initials and exittheir lives as examples of their beliefs Jesus to the world and Casy to Tom. Casy evencompares himself to Christ when he says, I got tired like Him, an I got mixed up likeHim, an I went into the wilderness like Him, without no campin stuff (105). In the firstone-half of the book Casy is thinking and forming his ideas. He changes from a thinker to a human being of action when he sacrifices himself for Tom. When in prison Casy sees theadvantage of organizing people to execute a common goal. When Casy tried to put hisideas into action he, like Christ, excited the antago...