Humanity In John Steinbeck's East Of Eden

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In the excerpt East of Eden by Steinbeck, they provide sufficient insight into the development of his views on the innate power of the human being. For despite the general lack of productivity and rootlessness of their lives, they somehow maintain a core of transcendent dignity, uniqueness of personality, joy, and brotherly love. As an examination of the basic frailty of humanity is a warm and kindly look at people's essential "trappedness" in a mechanistic universe.
With a significant darkening of tone and with a sharper focus on the actual ineffectiveness of human action in the second paragraph, At a deeper level, though, the words presents a bitter look at the inability of people to effectively direct and control their own actions. Illustrating
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