An' lea'e us naught but grief an' pain

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is perhaps the finest written example of the way aspirations and dreams of individuals often end in tragedy and heartbreak. In Robert Burns' poem, "To A Mouse", this statement is revealed throughout the poem and proven to be true. Although the entire poem tells a tale about a mouse in the dawning of a new winter without sanctuary, the most momentous phrase in this brilliant masterpiece are in the latter section. "...The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley, and leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy!" Robert Burns explains to the reader through this excerpt, that the best plans of all creatures will, at one point or another, turn against them and leave them with nothing but misery and sadness for the promised happiness they had dreamt of. Society in today's world of tragedies and misfortunes, can truly establish a firm insight to the true definition of this quote. The world is constantly faced with cataclysm dea!

ling with famous individuals in the world of politics, athletics, and business. All these examples allow people to face t

In the poem "To a Mouse", the author Robert Burns narrates the story of our rodent counterpart, the mouse, trying ever so hopelessly to erect a home for the impending winter. The mouse's unremitting struggle with the harshness of human nature is in connection with the novel Of Mice and Men. In Robert Burns quote, he explains that the finest plans of all living things will, sooner or later, turn for worse and leave nothing behind, but torment and agony in place of the delight they assumed was imminent. But quite the opposite is Emily Perl Kingsley's experience with raising a child with a disability in her poem "Welcome to Holland". She believed that if she had spent her life mourning over the things that went awry, she would never been able to appreciate the very special and lovely things about life. The optimism illustrated by Kingsley's experience is perhaps the optimum example of the way society should look at personal misfortune. Society is always lamenting over past!

he truth exhibited in Burns' quote. However, in the novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses fictional characters as support for the reality of Robert Burns' quote. John Steinbeck gives each of his characters a unique and distinctive persona to make evident of the actuality of Burn's quote and in the process compels the reader to ponder as to why he chose Of Mice and Men to be the title of one of his paramount pieces of written work.

Apart from the fictional characters in the novel Of Mice and Men are the famous celebrities throughout the world. In the midst of these celebrities was Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was a princess, but there are many princesses in Europe, none of whom ever came close to capturing the popular imagination of people worldwide the way she did. Similar to Princess Grace of Monaco, Diana was a movie star who never actually appeared in a movie. In a sense, her entire life was a movie, an ongoing soap opera acted out in the public. Nevertheless, Diana was incisive enough to understand the power of television and the ravenous British newspapers. However, similar to many celebrities before, she quickly found out that she couldn't simply turn the media on and off. The media persistently needed her to feed the public craving for celebrity gossip. Everything she said or did was copied. On the other hand, Diana consistently tried to use the mass media as a theater for projecting!

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her image-the mistreated spouse, as the kindhearted princess hugging AIDS patients and land-mine victims, and as the mourning princess crying at celebrity funerals. "I desperately loved my husband...I thought we were a good team...He was a fairy story that everybody wanted to work." said Diana on her failed marriage. But perhaps her highest ambition was to be an influential figure in society to people of all ethnicities, social classes, male or female. Diana did successfully reach her greatest ambition. In the last year of her life, Diana took up the cause of landmine victims and joined the effort to ban the weapons. Also in that year, Diana said, "They are my life and my duty," about her two sons, William and Harry. But tribulation and tragedy took its toll on the night of August 31st, 1997. That night, she became the ultimate victim of her own fame: pursued by paparazzi,

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