A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF PEARL S. BUCK’S COME MY BELOVED AS AN ETHICAL TALE

Abstract

Pearl Sydenstriker Buck felt elevated when she received the Nobel Prize for her novel The Good Earth. While revising this novel she thought of Sons and developed the story of Wang Lung further with the help of his sons. When she started writing novels, novel was an established genre and she wanted to develop her novels on a new pattern. For this she introduced people who migrated to other countries for trade and jobs.

As a young girl she had noticed the horrors and terrors of two world wars and felt shocked  with the explosion of two atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When she visited U.S.A..., she was horrified to see the results of economic depression. The sight of unemployed people made her weep. In Come My Beloved she has described the efforts of American Christians who come to India to improve the rigid and poor society. American missionaries’ have the best intention to establish schools and hospitals in India so that people may be civilized. Buck’s father had done the same in China towards the end of 19^th century. This novel is remarkable for moral realism.