Critical lens on the powers of emotion.

All literature shows us the power of emotion. It is emotion, not reason, that motivates characters in literature, quoted by Duff Brenna. This means that literature is emotional and can be a motivation for characters. I agree with this quote and the two pieces of literature that greatly support this quote are Of Mice and Men and Macbeth.
In Of Mice and Men by, John Steinbeck there was a tremendous amount of emotion from the friendship with Lennie and George. The setting of the story begins in a riverbed in California where Lennie warns Lennie not to drink out of the river because he m…