Animalistic Harshness in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

Abstract

This thesis makes clear the depiction of animalistic harshness in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men focusing on instinctual and sensational lives of characters revealing their animalistic nature. Steinbeck shows the violent nature of the Characters to depict their irrational behaviour through the medium of the crimes like killing, fighting, backbiting, subjugation, repulsion, anger and accusation of rape. Steinbeck's Comparison with the animals the callous and brutal nature of the characters is represented throughout the novel in which the events occur in rational and irrational manner. The researcher has focused on these aspects of the characters by use of naturalism as a methodological tool.