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Video made for an English presentation on John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'.Clips taken from the 1992 film "Of Mice and Men" and music from "The Shawshank R...
John Steinbeck's classic 1937 novel is given new life by director Gary Sinise who also plays the part of George Milton, a laborer who has thrown in his lot w...
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- The Predatory Nature of Human Existence
- Fraternity and The Idealized Male Friendship
- The Impossibility of The American Dream
- Fallenness
- Freedom vs. Captivity
- Fear
Of Mice and Menteaches a grim lesson about the nature of human existence. Nearly all of the characters, including George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife, admit, at one time or another, to having a profound sense of loneliness and isolation. Each desires the comfort of a friend, but will settle for the attentive ear of a stranger. Curley’s...
One of the reasons that the tragic end of George and Lennie’s friendship has such a profound impact is that one senses that the friends have, by the end of the novella, lost a dream larger than themselves. The farm on which George and Lennie plan to live—a place that no one ever reaches—has a magnetic quality, as Crooks points out. After hearing a ...
Most of the characters in Of Mice and Menadmit, at one point or another, to dreaming of a different life. Before her death, Curley’s wife confesses her desire to be a movie star. Crooks, bitter as he is, allows himself the pleasant fantasy of hoeing a patch of garden on Lennie’s farm one day, and Candy latches on desperately to George’s vision of o...
Drawing on the biblical story of the Fall in which Adam and Eve sin in the Garden of Eden,Of Mice and Men argues that the social and economic world in which its characters live is fundamentally flawed. The novella opens by an Eden-like pool that is presented as a natural paradise. People visit, but they do not own the land and they share its resour...
Of Mice and Menillustrates how working-class people possess little meaningful freedom and are often held captive by their circumstances. Both George and Lennie feel that the ranch “ain’t no good place,” but they have to stay because they “can’t help it”; they are victims of a society that idealizes the American Dream, but doesn’t give people many o...
Most every character in Of Mice and Men lives in fear. As the novella opens, George and Lennie have just fled from an attempted lynching in Weed, and when they arrive at the ranch Lennie intuits that it “ain’t no good place” and wants to leave. Candy fears suffering the same end as his dog, who was killed after Carlson deemed it too old and weak to...
Jan 22, 2019 · Updated on January 22, 2019. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, tells the story of two migrant farm workers in California. By exploring themes such as the nature of dreams, the relationship between strength and weakness, and the conflict between man and nature, the novella paints a compelling and often dark portrait of Great Depression-era ...
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The main themes in Of Mice and Men are loneliness, innocence, and dreams. Loneliness: Race, age, gender, and class create barriers between the characters. Crooks's private room, segregated from ...
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The Dead Mouse. In ‘ Of Mice and Men ’ George discovers that Lennie is hiding a dead mouse in his pocket and throws it away to the other side of the swamp. Before that happens, we see Lennie’s reluctance to give away the dead animal which he had mistakenly killed by severe stroking. With the dead mouse, there is a symbolism of false hope ...
