Animal Imagery
Of Mice and Men was noted to be a great example of the use of animal imagery. Throughout the course of the novel Steinbeck often uses animal imagery to emphasise the key themes of mental illness, racism and the inevitable tragedy of the ending.
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Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or imagery:
“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)