Emotions Seen In "of Mice And Men"

In the short story Of Mice & Men human temptation shows us how it can take a man down at his greatest moment no matter how high he is. Throughout the story examples of human temptation causing man to fail is seen quite often, most particularly with Lennie. Human temptation causes the best laid plans and dreams to fail because temptation is something not everyone can always resist. George and Lennie have the plan of “living of the fat of the land one day” but because of Lennies temptation to touch soft things it causes Lennie to give in and ruin their dream of a better life. Human temptation always causes the best laid plans to go down the hole.

He behaved kindly for selfish and prideful reasons; he behaved unkindly when he couldn’t control his emotions. This buildup of emotions eventually caused Doodle’s death at the end of the story. The narrator recognizes his guiltiness when running away from his brother, knowing that Doodle’s heart cannot bear the strain. However, at the time, he did so anyways – he couldn’t understand the consequences of his impetuous actions, and ultimately, kills Doodle. Throughout the Scarlet Ibis, the cruel interactions between the narrator and Doodle occur in the heat of the moment, a characteristic crack of pride and cruelty in a child, where Brother feels guilty for doing so, but cannot comprehend what could happen as a result of his actions.

I cried over their hardships and laughed at their cheers. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, I saw a theme that was surely meant to stand out, the theme that dreams do not always come true. In fact, I believe that they hardly do. Of Mice and Men is the story of George and Lennie. George is a small and sly, but bitter man, and Lennie could be said to be the exact opposite.

Curley’s characterization reveals a lot about his character and how he is ruthless and doesn’t care for others not even his deceased wife. George later kills Lennie out of compassion because he is better off killed peacefully than by what is to come, Curley and his painful death. “Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure, right now.

However, it must be noted that Lennie can still be quite crafty, as when he cunningly persuades George to tell him the story about the rabbits by threatening to leave him. Conclusion Loneliness is a disease. George had Lennie to and Lennie had George to combat the terrible affects of it. But there were others who were not so lucky. Crooks was intensely unhappy, unconfident and seriously mentally damaged from the lasting affects of loneliness.

Candy felt real bad inside because it was his job to shoot his dog but instead Carlson shot him. This shows that when a person goes against what is moraly right to them , they hate themselves for it. At the end of the story George is forced, out of moral, to shoot Lennie. It was the right thing to do, and even though it almost killed George inside to kill his best friend, he still did it. Social injustice is when a person or a goup of people feel they are better than people who are different by race, inteligence, age, sex, or other differences.

They say I stink.? (p. 33) As a result of this separation, Crooks becomes incredibly bitter and lonely. Through his request of having a part in George and Lennie?s dream, it becomes obvious that he searches for a friend, struggling to be recognized as a human being. Curley?s wife is the typical example of discrimination based on misunderstanding. Because she is never given the chance to express her point of view, the men have a strong opinion on her based only on their interpretations of her actions.

In the case of the book of mice and men Lenny gets picked on by the husband of the bosses daughter because the guy was clearly jealous of Lenny and needed to make an excuse for wanting to fight with him, but this happened simply because the guy disliked Lenny, also for the reason that Lenny was retarded. Both authors try to give us a view of some of the injustice in societies, both modern and old fashioned. The only difference is that people can practice their injustices with more advanced technology and a wider knowledge which could at one point lead to our extinction.

After a long time of suffering, the narrator finally gains a true understanding of his wrongdoings. The protagonist is filled with regret with the way he treats women and the fact that his cheating ways gets him nowhere. He confesses the truth that his ex “ did the right thing” by leaving him (14). Yunior starts to register that he is unable to ever get over his ex fiance and he regrets cheating on her. He is saying that he does not deserve her because all that he ever gave her were lies and deceit.

To the public they seem very rapturous and in control but in reality, they are both dealing with the guilt of their immoral actions as well as how their actions have affected Hamlet, who appears to have gone mad following the death of his father. Why would Gertrude go to severe lengths to make Hamlet get over the loss of his father? And to make matters worse G... ... middle of paper ... ...this does count as Ophelia betraying Hamlet, Hamlet takes this to a new extreme by not only insulting her, denying he loves her, and humiliating her on several occasions he even goes as far as to kill her father. And although he doesn’t mean to kill Polonius he actually could care less, and literally insults to corpse. By denying his love for Ophelia, he leaves her confused and broken hearted.