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despondent characters who are sick of their provincial lives. Loneliness is the feeling of isolation and no hope or dreams in your life-which is what Steinbeck achieves by portraying this theme effectively through key fictional characters in Of Mice and Men. By living in the town of ‘Soledad’ (Spanish for loneliness), the audience gets an overwhelming sense of the depressing environment that the migrant farmers are living through by their repetitive lifestyle and the consequences they face through the

The title Of Mice and Men comes from the poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet. The poem talks about a mouse's nest accidentally getting destroyed from the speaker's plough. The title is taken from this quote: "The best-laid schemes o'mice an' men gang aft agley, [often go awry] An' lea'e us nought [leave us nothing] but grief an' pain". This basically means that there will always be a time when there is suffering and death, regardless of how much "thinking men" and "unthinking" animals

Loneliness in Of Mice and Men The novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, takes place during the Great Depression era in the 1930s. Life changed dramatically from the thriving 1920s. Work was hard to find because of the bad economy, and everybody lived tough lives. It was even tougher for African Americans, women, and the elderly because they were all considered useless at the time. Everyone had no respect for them, and they were very low on the social pyramid. Due to their low status and respect

the complexities of modern civilization in language and that such representation necessarily leads to difficult poetry.” The Hollow Men written by T.S. Eliot it explains three different messages including the fact that everyone is empty and full at the same time, people no longer have religion, and people see the words but don’t appreciate the meaning. The Hollow Men, T.S. explains the message of being full and empty at the same time. When a person says they are empty it most often means that they

What if killing someone was good? What if the death of your child was the only to cure you? The books Of Mice and Men and The Pearl are both thought-provoking stories that were brilliantly authored by Jordan Steinbeck, and both of stories address this topic. Of Mice and Men tells the story of two workers in the Salinas Valley, while The Pearl tells a parabolic story, about a poor fisherman working to save his child. Both stories tell touching, and quite frankly, heart breaking stories about what

The explication of "The Hollow Men" In the famous poem "The Hollow Men'' written by Eliot, the author depicts "a land of death", which gathers a group of "hollow men", not only showing the emptiness and a sense of loss of people, but also reflecting the falling of modern civilization. In his description, we can clearly see the hopeless status that the people live. In the epigraph of the poem, Eliot mentions two people called "Mistah Kurtz" and "the old guy" respectively. Mistah Kurtz is a character

Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Penguin Books, 1965, 107 pages This is a novel that takes place during the latter stages of prohibition and the depression era. It centers on the pursuit of the American dream. There were many who dreamed of possessing it, but only two men dared to embark on the journey. The two farm workers seemed to be on a lifelong mission to possess the goal of many others, during that era. As, the men navigate through the affairs of life, the pursuit of the

“The Hollow Men” by T.S Eliot describes how the crumbling of society’s morals and the declining importance of religion is society, creates a world of ‘hollow men.’ Mr. Eliot crafts an elaborate piece full of references to outside texts. Eliot uses a plethora of linguistic and aesthetic devices of allusions, symbolism, and repetition; however, complexity is added to the piece in the context of the Bible and Dante’s “Inferno”. Allusions are references to a person, place, theory. Eliot employs allusions

Steinbeck’s 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, and in “Alone”, composed by the artist, I Prevail, in 2016. Although both

unfrequented and remote”, but even if one has an acquaintance they can still feel alone. In Of Mice and Men, loneliness is shown throughout the characters and it showed that one doesn’t have to be alone to feel loneliness. Many of the characters portray this trait as Steinbeck described the emotions they feel. Loneliness is a major theme in this book as it continued to recur throughout the novel. In Of Mice and Men, George was faced multiple times with loneliness. Even though Lennie was there it seems as if