women’s rights, simply because people distrust the foreign and unknown. When the author John Steinbeck wrote most actively, around the 1930s, the Great Depression raised discrimination against migrant workers, and racist attitudes persisted. The characters Steinbeck wrote about reflect this, as they face hardships, and struggle to remain strong and united. In John Steinbeck’s works The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, he argues that people must fight against discrimination to achieve their dreams,
know why people treat women as less than they do men. She did not know why only bad things happened to her. She went to her grave wondering why she spent her entire life being abused. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is the story of many people living on a ranch together, each one representing a different part of society. Curley’s wife (otherwise known as “The Woman”), who represents women, is often mistreated by the ranch hands. Society treats men as better than women as shown by how the ranch hands
ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with them.’ (Mel Brooks) How have Harper Lee and John Steinbeck created believable characters in the novels you have studied? Who made their novel more believable than other? Is it Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ or is it Steinbeck’s ‘Animal Farm’? To compare and contrast the two similar but very different novels in the introduction, firstly both novels share the same country background and