Natural Order In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Natural order is shown. The novel organizes living things in specific relationship with each other, and in doing so it has included the rule of survival of the fittest, which usually is accepted about how life operates in the wild. But the novel applies this rule to the characters in terms of each character 's social and economic lives. Each character and their relationships with other characters determines who is fit and who isn 't in that specific relationship. Although the concept itself is unfair to the social and economic lives, it is inevitable that a perfect human has more survival chances than the one considered to have some fault. The novel portrays that natural order is unfair, but it

At the beginning of the story Lennie describes the dream as future, and they carry this dream towards the end of the story at the place where they slept the day before they go to the ranch. They describe how it looks like and what each of their job is going to be. George explains that the dream provides them both freedom in work, settlement, and a property of their own. The description of the promises in this dream through “An’ live off the fatta the lan’,”(pg.14) shows how they could potentially become the bourgeoisie and achieve the other products of this dream. What is important here is that the dream fails because George and Lennie are weak characters. In other words, the upper class constantly overpowers the working class and makes them weak, disabling them from achieving their dreams. Just as in other cases the dream which seemed like a reality failed to become reality. This is natural order as the bourgeoisie and proletariat are in specific relationship with each other where one dominates the other and is weakened by it. To put it another way, the poor rely on the rich to give them jobs,

He portrays that the survival of the fittest is a just rule, with using a weak character’s weakness to dominate them. In the book it is shown that you have to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong to withstand the pressures. In the story we see a character that is weaker compared to everyone on the ranch, that is Crooks. He is weak because of the color of his skin. The moment when Curley’s wife enters Crooks room and starts talking with the men, Crooks is scared that Curley himself might see them. So this leads Crooks to talk against the woman, but the woman threatens to lynch Crooks. The author illustrates the woman using a weakness such as color to threaten Crooks with “Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.”(p.81). This perfectly shows how in the real world a black man is not able to rebel against a woman or any other character. Steinbeck shows this as a universal truth. Crooks faults are unable to compete with a woman who is stronger than him. In other words the african american is weak and in his relationship with the woman, he is unable to compete with her as she possesses power that dominates and threatens him. Although both characters similarly face isolation and loneliness or have lost something, the