Curley’s wife is a significant personality in the novel. John Steinbeck presents her in different ways during the novel and uses different methods to influence the reader’s judgement‚ for instance through her look‚ as she is a complex character. Significantly Steinbeck makes it clear that nurture turns her into the person she is in the novel‚ her nature is different. He uses language to show us who she is as revealed by colour and light symbolism; incongruity of her appearance and the setting; simile
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How does Steinbeck present Slim from the extract? Slim‚ on his first appearance‚ is described as moving with a “majesty only achieved by royalty or master craftsmen”. With this descriptive phrase‚ Steinbeck immediately establishes Slim as someone who is confident in himself that is admired by others. To move like majesty‚ it requires one to move with graceful fluency without seeming effort. This is a man who is comfortable in his own persona. Continuing with the comparison to royalty‚ Steinbeck
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This influence is visible all throughout American Literature and throughout our American Culture‚ a howl for rebellion is a basis for the identity that lives within everyone‚ as represented
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Incidents’ and Half-Caste’‚ language is shown to be very important. Both Agard and Leonard‚ use a variety of language styles‚ underneath the surface of the poem. Studying it very closely‚ you can see many similarities and differences and you start to see there perspective of life and the dramatic monologue that portrays the importance of language. Cultural and ethnic background is expressed through their language; to show that there culture is very important to them. The language helps to bring out the
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How does Steinbeck present the theme of loneliness in ’Of Mice and Men’? ’Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinbeck‚ published in 1937. The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California. The two protagonist characters‚ George and Lennie are farm workers who have a dream of one-day owning their own ranch. They find work in a ranch near Soledad‚ after escaping from Weed because of George’s incident. They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream. To
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How does Steinbeck explore different attitudes to women in the novel? Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck in the mid 1930’s and published in 1937 when America had started to recover from the Wall Street Crash. The 1920’s were a ’boom-time’ in America‚ there was plenty of work and money was easily made but the 1930’s brought unemployment and poverty. The attitudes to women in his novel are in the main unflattering. Steinbeck depicts them as unintelligent and most of the women in the novel
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Introduction: In of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Curley’s wife sparks much debate and controversy‚ being an extremely important character in the book as she symbolises the gender inequality and discrimination of the period. At the start of the novella‚ we assume she is just a plot device‚ but later on find out that there is much more about her and she has a very important role in the book as being the only woman. During the 1930’s women were treated unequally to men‚ and weren’t treated with
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How does Steinbeck convey the theme of loneliness? As a socialist writer‚ John Steinbeck used his stories to show how unfair the world was under capitalism. In Of Mice and Men‚ he used the settings‚ characterisation and language to convey the theme of loneliness. From the very first line‚ "A few miles south of Soledad" (Soledad being Spanish for solitary)‚ the settings pay homage to the theme of loneliness. The first and final scene take place in a majestic clearing that will remain untouched
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In ’Of Mice and Men’‚ John Steinbeck includes a character‚ Crooks‚ as a stereotype of black people in the Great Depression; proud‚ bitter‚ and very sarcastic. Crooks is also extremely pessimistic and cold-hearted‚ due to the way people had been treating him all his life. Steinbeck portrays many of his characters lonely and isolated. Just as Candy’s age and handicap isolate him‚ and Curley’s wife’s being a female makes her life solitary‚ Crooks’s race is the main reason for his isolation. Because
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The truths revealed by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men unfold the reality of America and the human condition during the Great Depression in the 1930s. He incorporates these truth no matter how agonizing they might be. Loneliness‚ friendship‚ and dreams are a few of the truths exposed in the novel. One of the truths Steinbeck introduces is loneliness. The recurring theme of loneliness is detected throughout the whole novel. Loneliness‚ presented in various amounts of characters in Of Mice and
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