Humanity In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

“Wha’s the matter with me?’ she cried. ‘Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?” (Steinbeck 87) In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley’s wife is discriminated against because she is a woman living in the 1930s when few females could live economically independent of men. By choosing not to name her, Steinbeck reinforces her insignificance on the ranch and her dependence on Curley. While a misfortunate victim of isolation, Curley’s wife exerts unexpected power attempting to mask her pain.

In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck conveys the human nature to feel secure. Many of the characters feel isolated, or upset. After sharing their feelings they feel week and ashamed, and see the need to resume power through oppressing others. He conveys the human nature to never be the weakest person, to hurt the people lower than you.

In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the predatory nature of human existence is a prevalent thematic topic. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck uses various encounters between the characters Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife to express the predatory nature of human existence. Crooks and Curley’s wife are both provided with the opportunity to exercise their power over an individual who is weaker and more vulnerable than they are. When Crooks and Curley’s wife take this opportunity, they are showing that when the opportunity to use power arises, people will take the opportunity. People taking advantage of their power over someone else occurs frequently in society. As a child, I first began to experience the predatory nature of human existence when I was in the fourth grade and my best friend saw an opportunity to use her power over me and took it.

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.” - Marie Curie. This quote addresses the solution to the problem of making the world better by working on ourselves and how we interact with one another. The novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is the journey of two men, George and Lennie, who displays the responsibilities that we ourselves owe to others.

The main conflict involved all characters that struggling for survival during the Great depression due to the insecurity of jobs, uncertainty about future and no enough money. One of the conflicts was man vs. society in the story. Crooks, who was a black man with crippled back, segregated from other farm workers. He did not allow sleeping in the bunkhouse with the rest of people. Crooks consistently discriminated and considered as a second class citizen which lived separately in the stable with horses. Furthermore, He had called names and abused by others. He had not even given respect to having name and society will stay the same which he could not attain American Dream.

Attitudes can make one small situation a big situation but all depends on your attitude.Not having control over everything can make a positive and negative affect on a person.But as a society if we try to make everybody have a positive attitude then no one would be feeling lonely.But there will always be people that will be in bummed mood for personal reasons. John steinbeck's novel, of mice and men, claims that everyone has it and people who feel isolated do it to protect their self.So,this makes people make bad chooses and then they get in trouble.Also they might do things to get attention or just ignore everybody that tries to talk to them

Believe it or not, there’s a lot of problems in the novel, Of Mice and Men, which portrays plenty of different social issues within the text and the movie. There were loads of racism, sexism, and ageism presented both in the film and in the book, these issues paved the way to the theme and essence of the overall story. The book Of Mice and Men, is about two different people, Lennie and George. There’s numerous of evidence to show how these three problems are bestowed in the narrative.

For my book report I read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men is a fiction book told in the third person. The story is set most likely in the early to mid 1900’s, and most of the story takes place on a ranch in California. The story’s language was out-of-date for our younger generation, and it helped determine the time period. This was an excellent story and in the following paragraphs I’ll talk about the protagonist and antagonist, extra characters, and a summary of the book.

John Steinbeck, an American novelist, is well-known for his familiar themes of depression and loneliness. He uses these themes throughout a majority of his novels. These themes come from his childhood and growing up during the stock market crash. A reader can see his depiction of his childhood era. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the prominent themes of loneliness, the need for relationships, and the loss of dreams in the 1930s through the novels’ character.

Throughout the novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck demonstrates his cynical impression of American society during the 1930’s. Whilst reading Of Mice and Men, readers gain the impression that Steinbeck used his novella as a medium of disproving many common ideologies of the time in hopes of creating a healthier society. One of the most prominent themes throughout this novella is that there are many in this world who suffer, but to no avail as the rest of humanity stands to the side and looks down upon them offering no aid. In order to prove this point, Steinbeck introduces an abundance of characters with different impediments, including their race, gender, and mental or physical state, all of which are unalterable

In life human nature can be known to be thought of as a high quality and/or low quality. Naturally, human nature is there without thought about what it actually is. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author sprinkles clues and evidence of how human nature was and still is today. The themes that Steinbeck used throughout the novel were, for example friendship, loneliness, and weak vs. strong.

In the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’, Curley’s Wife is one of the many characters who represent a minority in the American society in the 1930s. In the award winning book, John Steinbeck provides many different aspects to the world he was living in at the time he wrote the novel: dreams, hopes and loneliness to name a few, all channelled through one mentality - prejudice. Curley’s Wife was one of the many characters that Steinbeck used to get his point across about prejudice with. She is not a complex character, however ‘a significant figure’ may be a better fitting word. In my essay, I will be investigating if whether Curley’s Wife is presented by Steinbeck with dislike and/or sympathy, and if so, with how much.

I can tell that George and Lennie like to argue a whole lot, the reason that i can see they like arguing a lot is because in paragraph 34 it states "You can jus' as well go away, to hell," that makes me think that they don't get along to well. Both Lennie and George could have really good lives, but I think that if it was good that they stuck together, i also like how they have big dreams for they're futures. Even though they were probably going through a rough time because of the great depression, it would have been really hard for them to find a job. Some of the benefits that they could of have is that George already had things planned for him and Lennie, in the future, "a little house and a couple of acres, a cow, and some pigs. " I got that textual evidence from paragraph 9.

How are we categorized as Americans? Could it be that we feed an untrue “American” dream or our blindness from the real world due to others? Of Mice and Men is an immense allusion of the world we know today because how issues are presented and how the are dealt with.

The nature of human existence displayed in this novella is extremely predatory. In the novella Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck is not afraid to show the importance between the predator and prey relationships in our world. We see this in the relationships between Curley’s Wife and Crooks, Curley and Lennie, Curley’s Wife and the other men and more. In Mr. Steinbeck’s novella predatory actions are exhibited throughout.