George stated at the beginning that Lennie always gets into troubles. “You do bad things and I go to get you out,” (Steinbeck, 11). When Lennie held Curley's wife tighter and tighter we all knew whats going to happen because first he killed a mouse and he thought he will not do the same thing with a puppy. John Steinbeck used his creativity use of foreshadowing to make the book more enjoyable to read. Lennie seems to be very strong, but in reality he is the weakest character in the novel “Of Mice And Men”, because of the lack of his mentality ability and the missing characteristic to think for himself and make his own decisions.
Lennie is powerless in a sense that he can't control how he reacts (his fight with Curley) and has to turn to George to know what to do. He is also described in a sort of subhuman way, using animal imagery at the beginning of the novel with "bear paws" etc. The novel has a circular structure, beginning and ending with descriptions of 'paradise', but at the end because Lennie is dead, it shows the brutality of life in the depression that however much you try, dreams can fail and you can end up worse off than when you started to show that there isn't a way of getting out of it. There's plenty to go at, and they are a few ideas to start you off. I hope this helps!
Some people, like Simon, understand this concept and he says: ‘Maybe there is a beast... maybe it’s only us.’ Other people, like Ralph, do not want to believe that there is a dark side to humanity and in Chapter 2 he constantly shouts: ‘but there isn’t a beast!’ Golding successfully gets across his message that there’s ‘darkness in man’s heart’ by the frightening way he describes several events in the book. The killing of the mother sow is an extremely shocking event in the novel. When it describes that ‘the great bladder of her belly was fringed with a row of piglets’ it shows how savage the boys have become and how much they have changed, especially Jack, because at the beginning of the novel he had difficulty killing the piglet because of ‘the enormity of the knife descending and cutting in to living flesh’ and now ‘practice had made Jack silent as the shadows.’ The quote ‘wedded to her in lust’ shows us that they specifically want the female pig and won’t rest until they have her. The scene is extremely graphic and the notion of what they are doing is terrifying. The fact that the pig went from being ‘in maternal bliss’ to ‘dim-eyed and grinning faintly’ is also terrifying, because they took something innocent and turned it into something wicked, which is essentially what happened to them.
Admittedly, as sympathetic and understanding as readers are for Lennie, Lennie is still a danger to other lives. In many instances in the book, Lennie accidentally kills many lives but does not realize the significance of his mistakes. Lennie is a man with the mind of a child with an unequal match of formidable strength, hence committing murder without meaning to do so. In the scene when Lennie kills Curley’s wife, he has the same slightly panicked reaction as when he killed the rat and puppy earlier in the book. Readers then realize that Lennie doesn’t understand the difference between killing an animal and murdering a human, therefore putting other lives at risk.
How does Steinbeck present the power or lack of power of the characters in “Of mice and men”? Steinbeck presents power as well as lack of power in all the characters in “Of mice and men”, for instance; Lennie Small is granted the power of strength but declined the power of authority. With Lennie, Steinbeck has created a character that is not fully aware of his physical capabilities and we can see that right from the very beginning when he is petting the mouse a little too roughly and this just foreshadows an impending disaster. Lennie travels with his companion George and out of the two, it is crystal clear that George is the leader and has power over Lennie. Whilst Lennie is extremely strong and can easily knock the living daylight out of George for bossing him around and telling him what to do, he is surprisingly gentle and submissive towards him.
He doesn’t care about his arm and that’s why they are hanging next to him. It coul also show lennies extreme strenght, which i soften decribed later on in the novel. In another part of the book, the autho decribes lennies innocence. He does it like shown. After George says to Lennie,: „Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.
In the novel, the boys are at an age where they are unaware of how things are to be run in a community, so this causes split parties. Golden uses the ideas of civilization and Savagery to describe innate evil in human nature. Though it may be obvious that order is superior over chaos for a society to be successful. 4B. 1. Who: Ralph and Jack 2.
Eventually napoleon builds a very large support group and rarely appeared in public. When he did emerge…it was with several pigs and an escort of six dogs who closely surrounded him and growled if anyone came to near" (Orwell pg.30) Macbeth on the other hand is very lonesome person. He does not receive nay help from friends to steal the throne. The only people that helped him are hired thugs who do not care about Macbeths well being only their money. He even isolates himself from his wife, when she asks him "what is to be done" (3.1.44), he replies"be innocent of knowledge" and leaves her out of his plans.
Throughout the course of the novel Of Mice and Men, George shows his heroism as he strives to protect his friend Lennie. While George might be short-tempered and impatient, he is a loving and devoted friend whose frequent protests against life with Lennie never weaken his commitment to protecting his friend. George’s first words, a firm warning to Lennie not to drink so much water at the stream because Lennie could get sick, set the tone of their relationship. As the story progresses, George’s sense of responsibility begins to deepen as he realizes that he holds Lennie’s fate, and ultimately his life, in his hands. During his conversation with Slim when George admits that he once abused Lennie for his own amusement, readers see that George is capable of change and growth.
Discuss the main characters in animal farm and contribute to the main themes In this essay I am going to discuss how the main characters in animal farm, George Orwell, contribute to the main themes, such as how they contribute to utopia, power and hierarchy. Farmer jones is only in the begging of the book/film farmer jones is a tyrant man who doesn’t really care about his animals and he has lots of power because he makes sure that the animals are scared of him by whipping them and treating them badly. He has a kind of utopia of basically drinking and staying in his bed and being lazy. In the end he gets chased out by the animals. Old major had lots of power because he was the oldest, wisest and the prize boar.