Examples Of Moral Choice In Of Mice And Men

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In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a character named George makes a big decision. George and Lennie, two companions in a business of lonely people, only have each other in California in the 1930’s, working as ranch hands. George looks after Lennie because he 's mentally disabled. After an incident that would get Lennie tortured, George has to make the painful decision to shoot Lennie in order to save him from the torture that would have awaited him. This decision can be called a moral choice, which is a difficult decision a character has to make between right and wrong. So the consequences of this decision are guilt and the loneliness that George will have to face. This decision is important to the work of literature because it is an example …show more content…
His painful decision was a great example of moral choice. He could do the right thing and feel guilt or not do anything but know Lennie would suffer. His moral choice reflects greatly on his character because George chose the right thing even though it was hard. A theme in this novella is dreams. George and Lennie’s dream was to own their own farm. George’s last conversation with Lennie was, “ We’ll have a cow. And we’ll have maybe a pig and chickens... an down the flat we 'll have a... little piece alpha for the rabbits” ( Steinbeck 105). This is symbolic because not only is it the death of Lennie but it the death of the dream. The final conversation about the dream is symbolic because after George shoots Lennie there will be no more dream. Another theme in the novella is loneliness. Every character in the novella is lonely, even Lennie and George but they always had each other. When George kills Lennie he knows he will be even more lonely. This also can be related to moral choice because he decides to do the right thing even though he will be lonely. George 's decision is important to the work of literature because he makes a painful moral …show more content…
He decides to take away the life of his only companion in order to save him from the dreadful life he would ave had to face. George does this knowing there will be many consequences like guilt, lonliness, and the death of Lennie. George is faced with a moral choice, a choice between right and wrong, and he choses the right thing, even though it is hard to deal with. George’s moral choice is very important to the work of literature. George’s decision to kill Lennie had many consequences but served as an important example of moral choice in the novella, Of Mice and

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