Miss Dunn’s English GCSE Of Mice and Men
Context
JWP Lecture: The American Dream?
Of Mice and Men Context Carousel: The American Dream FactFile
Of Mice and Men Context Carousel: The Great Depression FactFile
Intertextuality
Of Mice and Men Title Analysis: Robert Burns ‘To a Mouse’
Analysis
Of Mice and Men: Key Quotations
Stretch & Challenge: Aristotle’s ‘Three Types of Friendship’
Vocabulary
| ‘Of Mice and Men’ Key Vocabulary | |
| Socio-political | Text’s comments on the social and political era it is written in |
| Novella | A small novel dealing with important themes |
| Discrimination | Poor treatment of others |
| Superiority | Positive: sense of authority and respect. Negative: Behaving as if better than another |
| Isolation | Condition of being alone and separated |
| Pastoral | Natural and idyllic environment |
| Idyllic | A blissful paradise. A perfect environment |
| Animalistic | Having characteristics or behaviours which are likened to an animal |
| Parochial society | A narrow-minded or close-minded community. I.e. racist 1930s America |
| Injustice | Lack of fairness and equality |
| Fear & Hope | Being scared & Expectation or anticipation for the future |
| Foreshadowing | Technique of hinting to the reader what is to come later in the text |
| Dramatic Irony | The reader knows facts or events before the characters are aware in the text. Good for building tension |
| Camaraderie | Sense of togetherness and friendship during times of difficulty |
| Weakness | Vulnerable and in need of protection. Lacking in strength |
| Cyclical Plot | Where a text begins and ends in the same place. Both ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ have cyclical plots |
| Disparity | A vast difference |
| Plight | Tremendous suffering |
| Euthanasia | The painless killing of something suffering or in pain |
| Misogyny | The hatred and poor treatment of women |
| Abuse | Treat with cruelty or violence regularly or repeatedly |
| Literary Allusions | References to other literary texts or quotes |
| Single-minded | Concentrating only on one aim. (determined) |
| Cruelty | Behaviour which causes physical or emotional harm to another |
| Poignant | Evoking a keen sense of sadness and regret |
| Loneliness | A lack of friends or company that can lead to sadness and depression. Sense of isolation |
| Authorial context | Information about the era an author lived in which affects his writing, message and plot |
| Inevitable | Unavoidable set of events that will take place |
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