which the work “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck can exemplify; Lennie’s mental capabilities are challenged and well assumed. Crooks can hardly define himself even around the company of one. Yet, it is Curley’s wife whom truly possesses prejudice, as if she were draped in it. These all embody minority experiences, but in fact, these events Mr. Steinbeck illustrates aid the reader in harnessing the true intention of embedding the theme of prejudice. That is to say that Mr. Steinbeck’s intention was not
How do Shakespeare and Steinbeck present the characters of Lady Macbeth and Curley’s wife in Macbeth and Of Mice and Men? “Don’t you even look at that bitch” The play ‘Macbeth’ was written by the playwright William Shakespeare. The play involves Lady Macbeth, an infamous female character who exerts a great deal of influence over the events of the play and is one of the main protagonists in the plot to kill the king. In Act 1 Scene 5, Macbeth wrote a letter to Lady Macbeth detailing her of the
Women in books, movies, and TV shows are very often portrayed the way men see them, and by their reputation and physical beauty. They might not be respected because of who they are or their role in the story. Instead, to get any attention, a female role in a book or other media may only be able to rely on her sex appeal. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, there is only one female character, and she is only known as someone’s wife. She has a reputation of being disloyal, and flirting with
of us succeeding better than others, as this pent up wildness may rise up occasionally in our humane selves. However, John Steinbeck’s character, Lennie Small, defies this statement. He is an animal in a sense, and is taught to act human. These set of circumstances being the result of his mental disability. The mentally disabled man is set within Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. And using animalistic descriptions of Lennie, the author allows us to understand who Lennie is, how the other characters