This expression is used to demonstrate the increase and activation of revolutionary powers of people. American writer, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck titled his novel written in 1939 as "The Grapes of Wrath." The author writes in this novel that in the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. The origin of this title is considered to be taken from the Book of Revelation of John, 14:18-20, where it is written: "And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, 'Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe."
The plot of the Opera Faust is borrowed from the first part of Goethe's tragedy of the same name, which is itself based on a common German medieval legend.
The libretto was written by Paul Jules Barbier and Michel Antoine Florentine Carre.
The first performance of the opera took place in Paris, in Théâtre-Lyrique, on March 19, 1859.
