Of Mice and Men Group

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aroses1990
aroses1990
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High School - 11th Grade

How does Of Mice and Men connect to Pygmalion?

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Posted by aroses1990 on Thursday January 3, 2008 at 9:55 AM and tagged with class issues, comparison to pygmalion, of mice and men, themes.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
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    Directly? Not at all. One is a novel, written by an American; the other is a play, written by a Brit. One focuses on men; the other on both men and women. And so on.

     

    More generally, though, we can find thematic connections. Both are about attempts for members of the lower classes to transform themselves and get ahead. In Of Mice and Men, the two men are trying to get their own place, so they no longer have to move from place to place. They have a dream, but it is crushed. In Pygmalion, Liza is relatively content in her place early on, then has a dream instilled in her through the transformative experience. Both show the difficulty in changing classes.

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    Posted by gbeatty on Thursday January 3, 2008 at 11:15 AM