How Does Steinbeck Make the Fight Scene so Violent?

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How Does Steinbeck Make The Fight Scene So Violent? In Chapter 3, a fight arouses between Curley and Lennie. It all starts when Lennie is still grinning about the dream that they were pursue once they had money. Curley mistakes him as if he was laughing at him. The scene begins here. He starts this fight as Curley does not like people bigger than himself. Firstly when Curley hits Lennie he cowers and curls up in the corner and was beaten until he was bleeding all over his face and body, it’s at this point where George tells Lennie to start fighting back because Lennie could be killed. This scene is very dramatic mainly because Lennie is a nice person being beaten up, maybe it is dramatic because fighting is dramatic, everyone has different views of the situation but the writer's intention here is to show how the ranch workers turned to violence, in this case probably because they were bored. There is actually no reason for Curley to just come up to Lennie to start a fight is unlikely but maybe Curley thought of Lennie as a threat to him or his wife. Steinbeck uses a wide variety of ways to build up tension in the atmosphere. Profane language is commonly used throughout the book such as, ‘You God damn punk’ or ‘Come on, you big bastard’ or even ‘No son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me’. At this utterance, he unleashes his fury upon Lennie, beating him mercilessly. His words perfectly encompass the cruelty that he treats him with, and show just how Steinbeck uses dialogue to display human cruelty. Every word that Steinbeck incorporates into the story seems to be laced with some sort of malice and this aligns perfectly with the ongoing theme of cruelty. Another thing is that the use of animal imagery. Steinbeck uses two very good descriptions to describe Lennie and Curley. ‘Flapped like a fish’ for Curley when he loses his hand in Lennie’s huge fist and, ‘Bleated with

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