Novella

 George Milton is one of the protagonists in the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’. He shares his surname with that of the author of one of Steinbeck’s favourite works, ‘Paradise Lost’. As a hot-tempered migrant worker, Steinbeck crafts George to be a man who is hard-working and determined yet one of the many with their own American dream.  On the surface, George can be seen as a man whose quick temper may get him into fateful situations or cause him to lose his companion, Lennie Small. It later…

In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, animals can show symbolic importance. These animals can have a deeper and significant meaning to the story than how they are literally interpreted by the reader. Candy’s dog is an example of an animal that shows symbolic importance as it is symbolic to Lennie. If Candy’s dog represents Lennie, then the shooting of Candy’s dog represents the shooting of Lennie. One example of how Candy’s dog is similar to Lennie is that they are both troublesome…

In the novella of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck paints a depressing, but realistic portrait of America in the 1930s. He reveals what it was truly like to be a woman in that time period. Women back then were treated as nothing more than the property of men, they were possessions, they were objects. They were not their own person and the only identity that they had was that of their husband or their father. The role of a housewife was forced onto women, so much so that the only thing they could…

a character in John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, who is just like any other person on the ranch, searching for his American Dream. Although, for Lennie and many others, achieving this dream will be impossible. Lennie is a mentally handicapped outcast that is constantly dehumanized by being compared to that of an animal. The author describes him as a man with a “shapeless face” who “drags his feet like a bear drags his paws” . Throughout the entire novella he is constantly talking about…

now debilitated by age. Candy's relationship with his dog is significant to the novella because it mirrors and foreshadows George and Lennie's relationship. Both Candy and his dog are…

superstition, as some believe every individual has a “wicked” person trapped inside just waiting to be released. For some, this may be right, but it can also just be another bad act of a person, making it as an excuse for their bad choices. In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 discovers a scientific experiment that releases the evil side of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a well known physician who drinks a potion that transforms him into a…

away from her. Curley wife was ignored and used from early on, when she was given false intentions on being a movie star. Curley wife is stuck on the ranch with no hopes, desires, and people to talk to . Introduction The title of John Steinbeck's novella the name is inspired by Robert Burns's poem. There was a belief that America was the land of opportunity. In the nineteen hundreds, there was great depression in America because there wasn't enough money around, so people couldn't get jobs…

In the novella, everybody suffers from a lack of purpose as an individual as this is seen through nearly all characters. In the beginning of the novella,Candy is seen as the only character who suffers from the attitudes of ageism in society. Being a person of no value due to his lack of physical strength on the ranch as we see his fate foreshadowed through the life of his dog. Like Candy his dog too suffers from ageism and to an extent becomes a burden to the ranch heads with its odour and lack…

‘Macbeth’ (written in 1606) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (written in 1886) both revolve around the theme, ‘Duality’. This is the quality or state of having two parts, a dichotomy and in this case two personalities. This is shown throughout Macbeth but is uncovered in the final chapter of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Many factors contribute to why both Shakespeare and R. L. Stevenson had their play and novella based on duality and the period of time it was set in,…

The novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, mainly circles around Lennie Small, a mentally-disabled ranchhand living during The Great Depression. Many times throughout the book, John Steinbeck uses animal imagery as a metaphor to describe Lennie. He uses animals such as a bear, a horse, and a mouse in order to show both the naive and violent sides of Lennie. Almost right after this novella starts, Steinbeck already compares Lennie to a bear. When Lennie is first introduced, the author…