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Nature Aggrandized : Representation of Nature in Of Mice and Men
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| Abstract | Of Mice and Men was written in 1937 by John Steinbeck. It describes immigrant farm workers in California. The main characters are George and Lennie, who have a dream of owning their farm. But ...their dream is finally destroyed. In general, many critics argue that it represents the collapse of the American Dream. But this theme is too commonplace. This paper focuses on another theme: wildness in one of the main characters, Lennie. Of course, he is human being, but it is obvious that he differs from George and the other workers in internal feature, appearance, and behavior. In this work, Lennie is described as follows: (1) Lennie loves to pet soft, furry things: mice, rabbits, puppy. (2) His behavior is wild even if he was animal itself, and he lacks various abilities as a human being. So far, Lennie has been regarded as the neutral existence between human and nature. But I rather look on Lennie as a metaphor of nature itself. We thus can see Lennie as the representation of nature in contrast to human. My purpose is first to examine how Lennie symbolizes nature. Then, I will go on to show that, in Lennie, the wild existence of nature as a threat to human society, gradually becomes enormous with the progress of the story in the work.show more |
| Table of Contents | 序 Ⅰ. Of Mice and Menと自然 Ⅱ. Lennieの外見的表象・対立する自然 Ⅲ. Lennieの内的表象 Ⅳ. 巨大化する自然 結 参考文献 |
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| Created Date | 2021.10.14 |
| Modified Date | 2021.12.13 |