Benjamin McEvoy | How to Read East of Eden by John Steinbeck @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
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0:00 how to read Steinbeck’s East of Eden
2:20 novel as grand biblical allegory
3:20 what do we mean by symbolism?
4:00 unlocking the power of our unconscious
4:30 what do we mean by allegory?
5:25 psychologically complex symbol people
6:30 keys to interpreting Steinbeck’s message
8:00 a focusing exercise for your reading
8:50 the universal story of Cain and Abel
9:20 the power of the beginning of Genesis
10:00 Adam, Eve, and the fall of mankind
11:45 banished from the Garden of Eden
12:50 thinking about the serpent seed theory
13:30 reading the Cain and Abel story together
15:30 ‘am I my brother’s keeper?’
16:20 advice for how to read the Bible
17:00 locating Steinbeck’s title in Genesis
17:50 Cain and Abel in East of Eden
18:20 how Steinbeck builds family saga
19:20 John Steinbeck’s sweeping canvas
20:40 is evil a product of nature or nurture?
21:20 Steinbeck reflects upon the past
22:10 tone of voice in East of Eden
23:20 Steinbeck addressing his sons
24:50 the value of telling family stories
27:00 Steinbeck’s conversational history
27:30 Cal and Aron in East of Eden
28:20 the characters’ self-awareness
30:00 symbol story for the human soul
31:00 Steinbeck’s biblical exegesis
32:30 universal story of good vs evil
33:25 on the seven basic plots
34:45 the universal in the individual
35:40 Steinbeck’s voice and prose style
36:50 how Steinbeck wrote East of Eden
38:00 why Steinbeck found the novel difficult
38:45 on expressing the inexpressible
40:00 how to read the chapters mindfully
41:00 natural world vs human drama
42:00 appreciating the American Sublime
44:00 great literature gifts us perspective
45:00 relishing the opening of East of Eden
47:00 how to charge language with meaning
48:00 ‘When people first came to the West’
49:00 the influence of Ernest Hemingway
51:00 Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence
52:20 Ernest Hemingway vs John Steinbeck
54:00 great literature is sublimated pain
55:00 Steinbeck’s life at time of writing
57:00 John Steinbeck vs the critics
58:45 winning the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize
59:30 ‘literature is as old as speech’
1:00:40 reading pace for East of Eden
1:03:00 some questions for your reading