2006-07-26 12:57:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
It is a way of saying that regardless of size, social status, intelligence, etc., plans can be thwarted or dashed. And I guess they use the mouse for the sake of alliteration. It sound better than saying "the best laid plans of ants and men often go awry'. The m in mouse and the m in men are far more pleasant to the ear. A mouse is small and of lower inteliigence and has no status. Man (humankind) has intelligence, is larger and has status. So whether or not you have much of a place in the world, your plans can go south.
2006-07-26 13:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The "mice" stands for all mortal men and women Who Shakespeare dubbed players on a stage.
2014-09-29 18:35:53 · answer #2 · answered by C. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It`s a metaphor for the little things in life.
"Guy in the movie" ???
Of Mice And Men was a book LONG BEFORE a film you muppet and before that a famous quote anglicised from the Robert Burns original.
2006-07-26 20:04:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In sayings like that mice stand for little people you know the garbage man the common man where man is the big executive smart colleg grad guys. Someting along those lines.
2006-07-26 20:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by Sas-n-Frass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zerocool is the closest so far. Mice refers to the size of the smallest of best-laid plans. Whether this plan be of the greatest or most miniscule, the smallest trial can send it into chaos.
2006-07-26 20:05:08 · answer #5 · answered by ryan c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mouse, he's talking to a mouse. Burns by chance turns up a mouse's nest in a field, which ruins the mouse's life as it knew it. The mouse does not stand for something, it's a mouse. Burns compares what happened to the mouse and its nest and humans and their "stuff," and says that just as the mouse's plans to be cozy in his nest were upset by the chance swipe of a human's tool, so a human's plans might be upset by things larger than himself - wars, pestilence, storms come to mind. That's all.
2006-07-26 20:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by sonyack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mouse doesn't represent anyone in particular. Its sort of a symbolic metaphor meaning that no matter who you are, no matter what your social status is, no matter how much money you have, no matter how smart you beleive you are that things CAN go wrong. You can't expect everything to be fool proof, some things just don't go as planed.
2006-07-26 20:07:38 · answer #7 · answered by pinktigger28 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mice stands for mice. He is comparing the human Psyche to that of a mouse. get it?
2006-07-26 20:01:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't stand for anything, Robbie Burns talked to mice a lot.
2006-07-26 20:46:29 · answer #9 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They'll stand for a piece of cheese, usually.
They'll stand on glue boards, but you don't want to know the details..
2006-07-26 20:00:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋