Marian Vo 2/26/14 Of Mice and Men Focus: Dialogue develops character and theme Theme: Survival of the fittest Reading Journal: This last chapter of this book really tests the relationship between Lennie and George. After Lennies deceased aunt accuses him for being a burden to George, Lennie says "I know, Aunt Clara, ma'am. I'll go right off in the hills an' I'll fin' a cave an' I'll live there so I won't be no more trouble to George." All Lennie wants is to make George happy. Then the rabbit repeats George is gonna leave him and Lennie cries "He ain't, I tell ya he ain't... Oh!
Firstly, dreams serve as a vital escape mechanism for the characters, to help them cope whilst living through the American Depression, where life is lonely and difficult. They are the foundations of what makes life worth living. George and Lennie’s dream means different things to both of them. ; Lennie is mainly concentrated on his childlike aspiration to ‘tend the rabbits’ due to his love of petting soft things, while the crux of the dream for George is to have ‘our own place where we belonged’ because he is desperate to work for himself and have people around him to which he belongs. George tells Lennie ‘You know all of it’, which shows the huge importance of their dream, that even forgetful Lennie has memorised it - they use their dreams as an escape from the harsh reality of life on the ranch.
He becomes ruthless, tyrannical deceitful and dishonourable. The scene opens with Macbeth a free man, for the last time, still capable of choice between good and evil. During Macbeth’s soliloquy, he reveals his intentions. He is thoughtful, weighing up both the benefits and consequences of committing regicide. He is happy to commit murder if that was to be the end of it but he fears the consequences and is concerned that the same fate will befall him, “Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague the inventor”.
I remember about the rabbits, George.” (Steinbeck 4). Rabbits are a symbol of the impossibility of dreams by showing how all Lennie wants is to take care of rabbits, but since he has a history of hurting whatever he pets, it is apparent that he would kill them too, in effect killing his dream. The rabbits also show how people who
When having a friend, its good to stick together for anything that happens. It’s good to have their back and to help them out whenever they are in trouble. In the novel “Of Mice and Men”, by John Steinbeck, George, a Everyman shot his best friend Lennie, a man with a disability, in the head. In my opinion, the final scene with George and Lennie was an ultimate act of betrayal. One reason why I chose that it was an ultimate act of betrayal is because it’s very mean to shoot and kill your best friend.
Friendship and Human Morality in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men There comes a time in our lives when the harder decisions we have to make are also the moral ones. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men George is faced with the most dreadful decision on whether or not to end Lennie’s life and chooses the moral solution on behalf of Lennie’s own good and well being. George’s decision in killing Lennie is a true definition of human morality and friendship, because not only does he give up his own happiness for Lennie but gives him a much happier and painless death and freedom from the world Lennie truly couldn’t succeed in, giving off,” A sense not of realism but of reality” as stated in R.W.B Lewis’ article “John Steinbeck the Fitful Daemon” (512). Throughout the novel readers come to learn that Lennie and George have been together for years, George being Lennie’s primary caretaker. He goes about living a life it seems he doesn’t want and goes without little reward for the task he has taken (besides friendship and a friend in Lennie).
They often use this friendship to validate their existence and comfort themselves, George is proud that he “got somebody to talk to that gives a damn” as this is a rarity and an achievement for an itinerant worker. George also expresses his fear of loneliness when he states “I seen guys that go around ranches alone. That ain’t no good”, because his bond with Lennie is all he has he fights to protect it despite the trouble it causes him. Lennie is fiercely protective of George because their companionship is one of the few things that he understands and is sure of, when others try to test this he maintains “George wouldn’t do nothing like that!”. The two men desperately cling to each other as loneliness encroaches from all sides and threatens to tear them apart however, inevitably, their dreams are blown to one side by the death of Curley’s wife as Steinbeck makes true the poem ‘even the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley’.
The major reason why Rat slaughtered the baby buffalo is because he cannot face his friend’s death. War is pity which we can feel through the death of Rat’s friend Curt Lemon. War is love. The worse the situation is, the more precious the love will be. Love can always save people from the despair of the war.
Hamlets anger, which stems from his mother marrying Claudius, bears him serious thoughts of suicide. This results in an attempt at a religious and moral sin which shows a weakness in his character. Hamlet shows some moral sense when he decides not to kill himself due to religious beliefs, which is a paradox that leads to Hamlet’s downfall. His statement “thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain” (I.V.102-103) establishes his tragic decision to let nothing stand in the way of his vowed revenge assuring the death of Claudius, a longer life span and the immunity of punishment towards his mother. As act III begins, the reader sees Claudius’s plot against Hamlet progress.
After Caesars death Brutus expresses himself in his speech “as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself when it shall please my country to need my death.”(III, ii, 43-46). Brutus did not kill Caesar because he wanted revenge or power as the other conspirators did. He was willing to sacrifice his own life for the good of Rome if that was needed. Brutus’s noble personality is also revealed before Caesars’s assassination. When the conspirators gather at Brutus’s house at night, Cassius suggests that Mark Anthony should also die with Julius Caesar or he could carry on Caesar’s work.