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now faced with the harsh reality of coldness,loneliness and possible death.There is
a parallel here with George and Lennie’s joyful fantasy of a farm of their own,and its predictable destruction at the
An’lea’e us nought but griefan’pain
For promis’d joy
It is about a plowman who has turned
up by accident a mouse’S nest,and who,holding the
quivering victim in his hand,philosophizes about the vicissitudes to which all living creatures are heir,and over which they have no contr01.The mouse has dreamed of a safe,warm winter and is
by the Scots poet Robert Bums
(175旺1
796):
But,Mousie,thou art no thy lane,
In provi ng foresight may be vain;
The best.1aid schemes O’mice an’men
Gang aft agley(go often awry)
end of the story.The poem shows that the plans of men are not more
secure than those of the mouse.
Our lives,like that of the mice,ale
unpredictable.Therefore,the title“gives emphasis to the idea of the futility of human endeavor of the vanity of human wishes.’'6
l I.The Unattainable Dreams
The title of the Novella,originally as“Something That Happened”,comes from a poem,To
a
Mouse,On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough
stature of which they are innately capable,and be recognized by others for what they
are,regardless
5
As the title suggests,dream is one of the major themes in ofMice and Men.Loflis pointed out that“George and Lennie’S plan to find a place of their own,which Candy,Crooks and the other outcasts on the ranch are hungry to shale,is straight out of the American.’”The characters in this novella dream the American Dream.The definition of the American Dream is difficult to deftne
dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately,and too many of
US oursel ves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.It is not a dream of Байду номын сангаасotor cars and high wages merely,but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest
because it differs from different people in different times.As
a term,the American Dream was first
used by James Truslow Adams in his book The
Epic ofAmerica which Was written in1931.He
states that the American Dream is that dream of
a land in which life should be better and richer and
fuller for everyone,with opportunity for each
according to ability or achievement.It is a difficuIt
a parallel here with George and Lennie’s joyful fantasy of a farm of their own,and its predictable destruction at the
An’lea’e us nought but griefan’pain
For promis’d joy
It is about a plowman who has turned
up by accident a mouse’S nest,and who,holding the
quivering victim in his hand,philosophizes about the vicissitudes to which all living creatures are heir,and over which they have no contr01.The mouse has dreamed of a safe,warm winter and is
by the Scots poet Robert Bums
(175旺1
796):
But,Mousie,thou art no thy lane,
In provi ng foresight may be vain;
The best.1aid schemes O’mice an’men
Gang aft agley(go often awry)
end of the story.The poem shows that the plans of men are not more
secure than those of the mouse.
Our lives,like that of the mice,ale
unpredictable.Therefore,the title“gives emphasis to the idea of the futility of human endeavor of the vanity of human wishes.’'6
l I.The Unattainable Dreams
The title of the Novella,originally as“Something That Happened”,comes from a poem,To
a
Mouse,On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough
stature of which they are innately capable,and be recognized by others for what they
are,regardless
5
As the title suggests,dream is one of the major themes in ofMice and Men.Loflis pointed out that“George and Lennie’S plan to find a place of their own,which Candy,Crooks and the other outcasts on the ranch are hungry to shale,is straight out of the American.’”The characters in this novella dream the American Dream.The definition of the American Dream is difficult to deftne
dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately,and too many of
US oursel ves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.It is not a dream of Байду номын сангаасotor cars and high wages merely,but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest
because it differs from different people in different times.As
a term,the American Dream was first
used by James Truslow Adams in his book The
Epic ofAmerica which Was written in1931.He
states that the American Dream is that dream of
a land in which life should be better and richer and
fuller for everyone,with opportunity for each
according to ability or achievement.It is a difficuIt