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OF MICE AND MEN *Theme :* - Coggle Diagram
OF MICE AND MEN *
Theme :*
The Cruelty of the Word
Your worth or role as a human or an animal is strictly tied to your economic or physical utility. Survival of the fittest.
Women's role in society
«She's gonna make a mess. they's gonna be a bad mess about her...Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain't no place for a girl,
'speacily like her'
» p.51
Curley's wife
Curley’s wife is
isolated
from the ranch workers because she is a woman in a male-dominated environment.
Curley’s wife is isolated from the ranch workers because she is a woman in a male-dominated environment.
Racism
«
Cause I'm black.
They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me. » P.68
Crooks
His isolation demonstrates how society denies people belonging and equality based on race.
Crooks is excluded not because of his actions, but because of his race.
Dissability
«
Sure he's jes' like a kid
. There ain't no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he's so strong. I bet he won't come in here to sleep tonight. He'd sleep right alongside that box in the barn» P. 43
Lennie
Lennie’s mice
Lennie’s good intentions and the consequences of his strength.
The mice are innocent,
yet they suffer because they are fragile
''Useless''
«''Got no teeth'', he said. ''He's all stiff with rheumatism. He ain't no good to you, Candy. An' he ain't no good to himself.
Why'n't you shoot him, Candy?''
»
Candy's Dog
The dog is old, weak, and no longer useful as a working animal.
Its loyalty and companionship are not considered enough to protect it.
Weakness or difference makes a living being vulnerable to exclusion, abandonment, or sacrifice.