Transcript Of Mice and Men- Broken Dreams PPT.

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Of Mice and Men
English Literature
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Of Mice and Men
Development of Character
Shattered Dreams
Shattered
Dreams
Objectives:
To develop knowledge and
understanding of the character of
Curley’s Wife.
Good Girl or Bad Girl?
Steinbeck wrote of Curley’s Wife: ‘she’s a nice girl and not a
floozy’. What is your impression of her?
Good Girl
Bad Girl
Kind and friendly to Lennie
Threatens to get Crooks lynched
In your opinion, is Steinbeck successful in presenting her as a nice girl?
Shattered Dreams
After Lennie kills her
Steinbeck describes Curley’s
Wife in detail.
She looks very different
here. Read the extract on
the following slide then
connect the comment boxes
to the appropriate part of
the text.
All negativity
vanishes
She looks
beautiful in
death
Long
sentence
conveys the
feeling of
time
standing still
No sound or
movement –
emphasises
death
Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of
yellow hay. And the meanness and the
plannings and the discontent and the
ache for attention were all gone from
her face. She was very pretty and
simple, and her face was sweet and
young. Now her rouged cheeks and her
reddened lips made her seem alive and
sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny
little sausages, were spread on the hay
behind her head, and her lips were
parted.
As happens sometimes, a moment
settled and hovered and remained
for much more than a moment. And
sound stopped and movement stopped
for much, much more than a moment.
Loneliness
Dream
unfulfilled
Sympathetic
description
Image of
contentment
Repetition to
emphasise
stillness
All negativity
vanishes
She looks
beautiful in
death
Long
sentence
conveys the
feeling of
time
standing still
No sound or
movement –
emphasises
death
Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of
yellow hay. And the meanness and the
plannings and the discontent and the
ache for attention were all gone from
her face. She was very pretty and
simple, and her face was sweet and
young. Now her rouged cheeks and her
reddened lips made her seem alive and
sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny
little sausages, were spread on the hay
behind her head, and her lips were
parted.
As happens sometimes, a moment
settled and hovered and remained
for much more than a moment. And
sound stopped and movement stopped
for much, much more than a moment.
Loneliness
Dream
unfulfilled
Sympathetic
description
Image of
contentment
Repetition to
emphasise
stillness
Curley’s Wife
Find the quotations to support the following points
then complete the explanation.
Point
Evidence
Explain
Women are discriminated
against in the novel
She is called ‘tart’,
‘jailbait’ and ‘bitch’ by
the men on the ranch.
The ranch is a very hostile and
misogynistic place. Curley’s Wife
is an outsider and seems very out
of place.
Curley’s Wife is over
dressed and out of place
on the ranch
Curley’s wife has a dream
She is desperate for
attention and company
George is distrustful of
her
She is very lonely
Extension – Shattered Dreams
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6.
What hints has there been before Chapter Five that this
could happen?
How does Steinbeck influence the reader’s feelings about
Curley’s Wife in this extract?
How does Steinbeck describe the killing of Curley’s Wife?
Look closely at the use of language, does it remind you of
any other incidents in the novel?
How does Steinbeck use language to create the
atmosphere of a lazy Sunday afternoon in the barn?
How do you feel about Lennie following the events of this
chapter?
What do you think will happen next?
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