The novel is written in a simple but elevated, almost Biblical style, which lends dignity to the characters and events. The Good Earth contains a wealth of detail about daily life in rural China at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first quarter of the twentieth century it shows what people ate, what clothes they wore, how they worked, what gods they worshiped, and what their marriage and family customs were. Although Wang Lung is a fundamentally decent man, as he becomes wealthy and acquires a large townhouse he becomes arrogant and loses his moral bearings, but he manages to right himself by returning to the land, which always nourishes his spirit. The novel is about a poor farmer named Wang Lung who rises from humble origins to become a rich landowner with a large family.

By that time, she had lived in China for about forty years and brought to her portrayal of Chinese rural life a knowledge that few if any Western writers have possessed. When she published her most popular and critically acclaimed novel, The Good Earth, in 1931, she was living in China as the wife of a Christian missionary. This paper is an attempt to offer viable alternatives to reconstitute ecocritical ideas in The Good Earth and to evaluate them in terms of their coherence and usefulness as responses to the worsening environmental crisis.Pearl Buck was one of the most widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. Throughout the novel, a connection to the land is associated with moral piety, good sense, respect for nature, and a strong work ethic, while alienation from the land is associated with decadence and corruption. The novel is recognised for its glorification of land and soil as the foundation of life. These ideas about the earth give the novel its title. Buck also suggests throughout the book that while human success is transitory, the earth endures forever. Buck suggests that Wang Lung’s reverence for nature is responsible for his inner goodness, as well as for his increasing material success, and that the decadent, wasteful ways of the wealthy are due to their estrangement from the land. Wang Lung, a farmer, has an intimate relationship with the earth because he produces his harvest through his own labour. Buck’s novel situates this universal theme within the context of traditional Chinese culture.

Buck (1892-1973) is recognised for its predominant theme of the nourishing power of the land. The Good Earth (1931) by the American author, Pearl S. Ecocriticism, Green Studies, Despotism, Dominion, Symbiosis, Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism Abstract

The good earth 1931