It is breathtaking to witness the rooted words of a book, sprout and take life upon a stage. Only seconds into The Springers production of “Of Mice and Men” Lennie Smalls distinguished himself as a peculiar character, his childlike actions hinting towards a disability within. This adaptation of Lennie opened the book and placed it on the stage, allowing actors words to fill the gaps within our mind, with pure interpretation. From Lennie’s first playful strides across the stage he appeared far from
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Of Mice and Men is a popular book written by John Steinbeck. In Of Mice and Men we are shown a brotherly relationship between our characters, George Milton and Lennie Smalls. George is almost like a parent or guardian for Lennie, and Lennie often gets into trouble. Lennie is unaware of his own strength, thus killing many small animals like mice and puppies. The deaths of these animals are just one symbol out of the many throughout this book. There’s symbolism from mice to Curley’s wife, and from
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John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice And Men’ is a fictional story, about George and Lennie, the main protagonists, who find work in a ranch and the events and consequences that happen during their time there. The story has become an American classic, partly due to the fact that there are many levels of Disenfranchisement present in the story. Disenfranchisement in it’s simplest form, is the lack of power of individuals, places or animals in the context of the story. This idea of lack of power can be viewed
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John Steinbeck’s book, Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie dream of living together on a farm where they can find happiness. George reassures Lennie that once money comes in they will be able to go after this dream. However, it seems that the characters cannot reach that dream by the end of the story because situations have changed. Steinbeck sees the American Dream as a way to give people hope that is shown through the dialogue and the interactions between the characters but the dream cannot be achieved
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Dream” of George and Lennie on the outside may seem to be about materialistic things, but when one breaks the surface of their dream and digs a little deeper, they can see that the two characters “American Dream” is more about the relationship between the two and not so much about the physical items. “‘O.K. Someday-we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and-An’ live off the fatta the lan’, Lennie shouted”(14). George may be
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friendship because of the sacrifices that were made. Lennie has always been trouble and George always has to keep him in-line. He finally gets in trouble by grabbing a girls dress causing them to have to leave town. George states, “Well, that girl rabbits in an’ tells the law she been raped. The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie. So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day” (42). George has the chance to leave Lennie on his own or even just let them lynch him. He sacrifices
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over the world. Steinbeck uses the death of Candy’s dog and the death of Lennie to show how a helpless and defenseless person or animal can be killed against their will. Mercy killings have been committed by people since the seventeenth century and are described as a happy end to suffering. This suffering is usually from a disease or a cancer the person are just done fighting. It is said “mercy killing means
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Birling for AIC -Steinbeck can use the theme of fate to present Curley. - Curley does not have to work hard like the others but still holds power because he is the Boss's son. - Curley picked a fight with Lennie. Lennie hurt Curley. George asks slim "Slim, is Curleys old man gonna can us?" George is worried as Curley has authority because he is the Boss's son. - Curley is said to be evil and was born with authority. - Steinbeck uses Curley to highlight the American Dream. No matter how hard you
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Steinbeck, and also in the play Death of The Salesman written in 1949 by Miller. The desire to achieve the American dream which is to own land and be self-sufficient by being one's own boss is made evident in both texts as the protagonists Willy, George and Lennie aim to elevate their status and be successful. However, they face many obstacles and difficulties along the way. Miller and Steinbeck both criticize the American value of commercialism, as the dream to be successful is just a delusion; if you
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Explore the way in which Steinbeck presents the relationships between Curley's Wife and other characters in Of Mice and Men In the book Of Mice and Men the author John Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife dramatically different to his other characters. Throughout the story she remains nameless, only known as Curley's Wife and yet she is constantly mentioned around the ranch. She wanders around gaining many different reactions from she’s purty to married a tart. By presenting us with only one female
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