Status Updates From The Good Earth

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Buck explores the ethical relationship between human life and the land as a source of meaning and moral stability. Wang Lung’s virtue and dignity arise from his labor and fidelity to the earth, while his moral decline coincides with wealth, excess, and alienation from material necessity. The land functions as a metaphysical constant amid social and political instability, emphasizing the transience of human ambition