Of Mice and Men Historical Context
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- Created on: 03-04-16 13:13
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- Of Mice and Men - Context
- America in the 1930's
- Economic Depression
- FDR - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 'NEW DEAL'
- RECOVERY - Rebuild US industry + trade
- RELIEF - Improve people's lives
- REFORM - Change conditions for future progress
- 'NEW DEAL'
- FDR - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Poverty
- Social Inequalities
- 1920 - "BOOM TIME"
- Low inflation
- Low unemployment
- Low interest rates
- Skyscrapers, Road building programmes, affordable items e.g. radios
- 1929 - BUST
- Stock markets crashed CATASTROPHICALLY, 1929
- Economic Depression - 1930
- Unemployed, Poverty, Homeless
- People migrated West to California for WORK
- Stock markets crashed CATASTROPHICALLY, 1929
- Economic Depression
- Of Mice and Men Characters
- George and Lennie - travelling farm worker took temporary work
- Curley's Wife
- Film Industry grew - Actors + Actresses became well-known
- Charlie Chaplin
- Mary Pickford
- Wanted a glamorous lifestyle
- Film Industry grew - Actors + Actresses became well-known
- Crooks
- RACISM
- SEGREGATION
- LOW QUALITY OF LIFE
- Prejudice
- Main theme of novel
- Crooks
- Candy
- Lennie
- Curley's Wife
- Main theme of novel
- AMERICAN DREAM
- Declaration of Independence
- "all men are created , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
- People travelled West + settled on free land = frontiersmen
- George + Lennie - Dream of owning land - their version of AD
- living "off the fatta the lan'"
- Curley's wife dreamt of being "in the movies an' had nice clothes"
- George + Lennie - Dream of owning land - their version of AD
- Declaration of Independence
- IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
- What effect did the 1929 Wall Street Crash have on rural America?
- Why do you think Of Mice and Men was so successful when it was first published?
- Why might the USA in the 1930's be considered a racist society?
- What do you think Steinbeck is saying about prejudice in Of Mice and Men?
- Why did it become more difficult for people to pursue the American Dream during the economic depression?
- America in the 1930's
- IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
- What effect did the 1929 Wall Street Crash have on rural America?
- Why do you think Of Mice and Men was so successful when it was first published?
- Why might the USA in the 1930's be considered a racist society?
- What do you think Steinbeck is saying about prejudice in Of Mice and Men?
- Why did it become more difficult for people to pursue the American Dream during the economic depression?
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