| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 西洋語文研究所 === 82 === As a humanitarian, John Steinbeck provides multiple conception
of value in his works. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck employs
double visions to reveal the disorder from a world of cant,
confusion, and alienation. This thesis is divided into five
parts. The first part is a brief introduction. Chapter One
reveals how Steinbeck uses double visions as a satire. The
juxtaposition of the American dream and the American nightmare
presents the multiple forms of the American hope, whereas the
political and economic elements are used to castigate the laws
of the jungle in American society. The use of the named and
the anonymous alludes to the actionlessness of the authority
concerned. The subsuquent chapter attempts to reveal the vague
frontier of the oppositions in human actions and ideas from the
doubles, such as "love and hatred," "pessimism and optimism,"
and "responsibility and freedom." The third chapter deals with
the animal and human elements in human nature by Steinbeck's
use of double visions as amalgams. The conclusion discusses
that the superficial values of textual meanings must be broken
through the interactivity between the author and his readers to
present the plural values of the text.
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