Search results
- The land acts as an antithesis, or an opposing force, to the detrimental effects of wealth. Only poorer people work on the land, and it’s seen as improper for Wang Lung’s family to do so once they’ve become wealthy.
www.litcharts.com/lit/the-good-earth/symbols/the-land
People also ask
What does 'The Good Earth' mean in the novel?
What is the theme of the Good Earth?
Is the Good Earth a true story?
What books are based on the Good Earth?
What is the setting of the Good Earth?
When was the Good Earth filmed?
The timeline below shows where the symbol The Land appears in The Good Earth. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Desperate, Wang Lung considers the advice of his pessimistic, worthless uncle (Walter Connolly) to sell his land for food, but O-Lan opposes it. Instead, they travel south to a city in search of work.
Farms, fields, land, earth, dust, soil -- these terms pop up over and over again in the novel, as Wang Lung, O-lan and the other hard-working characters of the novel work the land. If the earth means merely one thing in the novel, it suggests constancy.
The Good Earth is an epic depiction of agricultural life during the last half-century of the Manchu or Ch’ing dynasty (1644-1911) in China. The Chinese man of the soil is embodied in the...
The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in an early 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
When Wang Lung does not see any future in his own land due to drought, he migrates to a southern city. Although whatever he gets in terms of wealth, is plundered. Yet he becomes rich enough to return as a wealthy person after the riots in the south.
The novel’s title – The Good Earth – makes reference to its portrayal of the importance of the land. Wang Lung starts out as a simple farmer, entirely dependent on the land, and he makes his fortune mostly by means of the land, first by farming it and eventually by renting it to others.
