Ironic Devices In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, focuses on the destruction of the patient’s way of life caused by Nurse Ratched emitting fog to continue running a perfect combine machine, or system, throughout the ward. Nurse Ratched has continued to run a perfect system on the ward, and now that McMurphy is determined to rebel against her, she makes a fog appear to stop rebellious actions from happening. After McMurphy failed to switch the television to the time when the World Series game is on, Nurse Ratched “[switched] the fog machine on” and has began rolling in quickly to where the patients are “lost in it” to feel “safe again” (101). In this particular spot, Kesey provides an image of how the fog affects the patients. The fog prevents

Like the tar, the group’s mind cannot grow their creativity. The parapet symbolizes the walls that figuratively encloses their minds that limit them from seeing beyond what they know in order to grow their imagination.

When in the safe house, Risa feels betrayed by Connor. “The betrayal is so unexpected, so complete, Risa doesn’t know who to hate more, Roland or Connor.” (196) In Roland’s attempt to rape Risa while she is in the bathroom, Connor just walks in and washes his hands, not trying to stop Roland. This makes Risa furious.

They look at how different it is from the restaurants they’re used to. After they order a message pops up on the TV screen on the table. The three learn about the crazy weather that is going on in Flama. This unexplainable weather causes groups of people close to the storm drop dead. This makes everything worse because the residents of Flama have no idea how to stop it.

It was so obvious what she wanted. Hilly cleared her throat and finally Aibileen lowered her head. ‘Thank you ma 'am.’ she whispered.” This blatant and public harassment by Hilly is humiliating for Aibileen.

He ended up in a series of orphanages where he was severely beat and traumatized for wetting the bed. One nun at the orphanage would “ fill a tub with ice cold water, put me in it, and hold me under until I was blue.” Capote intends to provoke the audience's sympathy for Perry by including his terrible childhood experiences to explain his violent manner as well as provide reasoning to commit the crime he did. Perry has many examples of how his brutal life experiences cause his violent behavior. Perry has many sociopathic characteristics including, lack of moral responsibility or social conscience, erratic behavior, rage and anger, ability form a particular relationship to one person, crimes are usually spontaneous.

This may have been prevented if McMurphy would have stood up for Cheswick against Nurse Ratched but he didn't. Therefore this shows McMurphy has tremendous power now in the ward and Nurse Ratched knows it. That’s you can say Nurse Ratched fears McMurphy because he's not like the rest of the patients that she can control McMurphy is different. For my third and final example is how McMurphy organizes the Deep Sea Fishing trip and just needs one more man for the trip.

For example, a symbol is presented in the first quote, where Charlotte says she is filled with “noise” and a “storm” when she is describing how she feels that day. This symbol represents her sickness, she is paralyzed so all of the possibilities of movement are all filling her head with “noise” which creates a “storm”. In my opinion, I see the storm as worries, doubts and missed opportunities that build up and scare Charlette till she needs to listen to Nirvana - which is her escape. Another example is present in the second quote, which states that antidepressants are a “raft” that the doctors want Charlotte to “float” on. The antidepressants related to a raft, which connotatively can mean safety, therefore it can allow the reader to draw the conclusion that the pills will help her stay afloat, when being drowned by the sickness and the depression that comes with it.

Stand up like sammy Being in a situation where one ends up embarrassed is not pleasant. Being publicly humiliated for wearing a swimsuit in a store that, keep in mind is about 5 minutes from the beach, is just plain ridiculous. Due to the managers public humiliation of the girls wearing their swimsuits in the store, Sammy’s action of quitting afterwards was heroic. To me, heroic means standing up for something you believe in even at the cost of your own personal happiness.

The well-respected Rebecca Nurse is visiting the Parris household and calms her. Prophetically, Rebecca warns Parris that identifying witchcraft as the cause of

In Act 1 Scene 3, for the first time, the universe of witches and the universe of men have been united. One of the witches depicts how she will "give thee a wind" to rebuff a mariner in light of the fact that his wife would not give her portion of the chestnuts she was eating. This shows how angry the witches are and how they can do a ton of damage. Then again, it is made clear that the mariner 's "bark can 't be lost" (bark speaking to the mariner 's boat) demonstrating that there are impediments to the witches ' forces in light of the fact that the witch isn 't sufficiently intense to sink the boat. The boat is truth be told an analogy, speaking to the State of Scotland, which is going to endure a "tempest" under Macbeth 's rule.

(10) The 'she ' the quote refers to is Montag 's wife, Mildred, and she is

The page that I found powerful was the one where she was trapped in a bottle. I found this page powerful because it shows you how much darkness can really takeover. Because when she’s trapped in the bottle she has nowhere to go, she has very limited space. The bottle is the darkness because it has trapped her.

Without seeing Curley’s wife or Amelia, the reader can easily characterise the two figures in their minds. This effect is created by powerful imagery. Both characters are viewed as promiscuous and flirtatious; evidenced rough their obsession with alluring clothing. Similarly the phrases "and now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three" of the Ruined maid and “ostrich feathers in Of Mice and Men have very similar connotations. The synonymy in presenting them both as birds signifies the writer’s intentions to portray them as glamorous, with a natural almost animal like confidence.

In the book, Steinbeck uses diction as the main literary device to describe the characters and what was going on. For example, he points out that George while talking about his dream “..repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before” (Steinbeck 13) . The author accents the words “rhythmically” and “repeated many times before,” which creates a sense of repetition, so it looks like George is not excited at all and even annoyed. With Lennie it’s different; he repeated many phrases such as “Go on George!”, no matter how many times he hears about the dream he is always wanting to hear it repeated, possibly to see his goal and not forget it(14). George’s and Lennie’s behavior is very different, because George thinks