Fratricidal narrative in john steinbeck's fiction and its biblical allusion

Among the ethical taboos in human society, fratricide is an ethical crime that is even more ancient and severe than incest, and its social form is the war inside a country or a nation. Throughout his whole literary career, Steinbeck never stopped his concern about fratricide that exists universally in human history. According to Steinbeck, fratricide originated from the duality of the ethical nature of human beings, namely the conflicts between individualism and collectivity, self-love and self-hate as well as good and evil. The only solution to fratricide is not violence, but man's ethical choice of rational will and reconciliation.