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Performance Critique Paper- Of Mice of Men
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I. The Script
A. Genre
In my opinion, dark comedy would be the best fit genre for the play Of
Mice of Men. Although it may have been intended to be a tragedy it was
comical in many scenes because of the characters, one in particular whose
name was Lenny. This character suffered from mental retardation and his
lack of understanding kept the audience very amused.
B. Conflict
The symptoms that Lenny has endured because of his accident as a young
child are the major conflict of this play. He does not have the mental
capacity to understand what is going on around him or when he has done
something wrong. This leads to him to do many things that people with a
normal brain capacity would not do.
In my opinion, the inciting incident was when they moved to the ranch
they were going to be working on. All of the problems that went on
through the duration of the play occurred after this.
The climax occurred when Lenny killed the wife of their boss's son. This
happened because Lenny was sitting in the barn with a dead puppy when
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the wife entered. He did not want anyone to know he had the dead puppy
because he promised he would leave them alone. She then continued to get
loud about the situation and he tried to get her to be quiet. I was unclear if
he had smothered her to death or if he perhaps broke her neck. Either way
this was a scene that was very action packed.
The rest of the guys that worked there, as well as the husband of the now
dead woman, were called into the barn and saw the body. They decided to
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