The daily struggle of the working class‚ fear of loneliness and the reality of putting all your energy into plans that fail are the different themes relating to John Steinbeck ’s novel‚ "Of Mice and Men". The characters depicted by the author are individuals who are constantly facing one obstacle after another. The book illustrates different conflicts such as man versus society‚ man versus man‚ man versus himself and idealism versus reality. The book ’s backdrop is set in the Salinas‚ California
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becomes the force of power. Steinbeck throughout the characters of George‚ Lennie‚ Curley‚ Crooks and Curleys wife Portrays how power is obtained through oppression but also that the oppressed can optain power themselves by inflicting there oppression on others. It is not
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choose to promote their own interests‚ which ends up causing problems for them. Lack of empathy will often come back around and hurt you‚ as displayed by Curley‚ the siblings from “Power‚” and Shylock. In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ the character Curley puts his self interests of proving his masculinity before feeling empathetic for his wife. Since Curley is a smaller
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anyone willing to talk to her either. There is not much a woman can do on the ranch which leads to Curley’s wife trying to interact with the other men on the ranch but she is in denial. The men know that if they get involved with the Curley’s wife‚ Curley could possibly fire them and make them lose their
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How does Steinbeck present loneliness and isolation in the novel? Of Mice and Men is set in the 1930’s during which time there was an economical depression‚ this made it hard for people to find work‚ save money and live a normal life. Many migrant workers started coming over from neighbouring countries like Mexico also in the hunt for jobs that were becoming harder to find as people took jobs to try and earn money for food. Racial prejudice was still a common thing in 1930’s America‚ Blacks were
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Curley is the son of the owner of the ranch‚ and he lives on the ranch with his wife. Curley used to be a boxer and was very handy. "’This guy Curley sounds like a son-of-a- bitch to me. I don’t like mean little guys’" (Steinbeck 14). Curley is mean‚ small and likes to fight with big people‚ for example Lennie. He and Lennie got into a fight and Lennie crushed his hand
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by Curley; when Curley enters the ranch the majority of the men change their behaviour to an awkward characteristic‚ because the main focus is on Curley and his wife‚ and the men know that Curley’s wife can cause trouble due to her flirtatious inner nature. Curley enters the ranch in search of his wife which gets the men get frustrated because when Curley is present he always insists on starting a fight with someone which leads to Curley trying to build up the tension between the men. “Curley bust
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Slim is what Curley wishes he could be but Slim doesn’t pick a fight with random people like a real man. He is the prince of the ranch and he is great at his job‚ Slim Is the hardest worker on the ranch. Slim is described as a good man to me‚ he deserves better than the ranch in my opinion because he tries his best at everything. Slim is a nice man because he lies for Curley after Lennie crushed his hand saying that he got his hand stuck in a machine and telling a lie is bad but Slim tells lies for
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The Tyger‚ Thomas M. Curley explains how Blake uses allusion to the Bible and metaphor of God’s creatures to describe the divine paradox between innocence and experience that humans cannot grasp.(-but not for an all-powerful God to create) He describes that The Tyger is composed of questions from a child’s curiosity about how an all-powerful being could create both the good and evil that exist in the world‚ which furthers his theme that human aspect is restricted. Curley explains that Blake illustrates
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for looking.” ambiguous “She was suddenly apprehensive.” on edge‚ scared at the mention of Curley “Jesus what a tramp‚’ he said. ‘So that’s what Curley picks for a wife.” tart derogatory term “Don’t you even take a look at that bitch … I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her.” Derogatory Femmefatal After she’s introduced to the reader: Chapter 4 “Any you boys seen Curley?” instigator troublemaker repetitive “Her lips were slightly parted.” paralinguistic features
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