Animal Farm And Fahrenheit 451 Literary Analysis

In both the early and late 1800s, slaves worked every day for long hours with no pay. They faced discrimination from the white culture. The Emancipation Proclamation which was passed in 1863, led to the freedom of slaves that were held within the southern states. One would think that after the slaves were free, the states would go back to normal, but there were many things that whites did not like. Obstacles like segregation, which were posed on blacks, arose because of the idea that the white race was superior to the black race. In the novels, “They Had a Dream” by Jules Archer and “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr., the cultural universals of values and communication aided African Americans in overcoming the obstacles they faced.

As soon as Mr. Jones, the owner of The Manor Farm goes to sleep, all its animals gather in the barn, because old Major, a highly respected pig, has had a strange dream he wishes to share with all the others. He starts his speech, but before getting into the dream, he talks about how he’s grown too old, about how he thinks he’ll soon die, and therefore, he has to pass his wisdom and his knowledge of life on to the rest of them. He talks about the miserable way animals live, the way they are enslaved, just getting enough food for them not to starve, and he says there’s only one to blame for it – Man. He proposes a rebellion of all the animals against men, saying “All men are enemies, all animals are comrades”. Wild animals like rats and rabbits

“There must be something in books, something we can imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”(Pg. 51) Main character Guy Montag is a servant to a society that is controlled by censorship and the fear of knowledge; Montag has spent his life burning books, to prevent the spread knowledge. But a series of events cause Montag's mind to change, and result in him breaking free from his society. The internal struggle of dynamic character Guy Montag, as to whether he should go on believing the lies his society has told him, or risk his life for something as simple as words on a page, brings readers into the corrupt society of Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is one man attempting to turn his society upside down. After discovering for himself the injustice of his society as it shuns all literature, Montag relentlessly fights to fix this corruption and endures large amounts of persecution in the process (Bradbury). Meanwhile, in his autobiography, Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass recounts his past as a single slave doing his best to right the evils of southern slaveholders. Although one takes place in a fantasy and one during 19th century America, both works portray individuals going against the unjust grain of their societies, and persevering through extreme opposition in the process. After escaping the grip of slavery, Douglass recounts his life story to a curious, yet most-likely privileged audience in an intelligent and revealing manner. Throughout his narrative, Douglass praises the surprising resilience of the human spirit even in the midst of constant hardship.

Thucydides, an Athenian historian and general, once said, “The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.” Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Throughout history, reformers have rallied against leaders and fought for what they believed in. To live a quality life, certain freedoms are necessary. In a Eulogy for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.F by Robert F. Kennedy, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Animal Farm by George Orwell, different types of people are represented through different ideas of struggling for freedom: a man leading others to receive the freedom they want, a man going against society’s rules to read literature, and animals overtaking humans in hopes of being treated fairly.

Writings throughout history show people from different backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs fighting for the same cause, the rights of African Americans which were stripped from them during the 16th century until the late 19th century. In “They had a dream,” by Jules Archer, the stories of four very different people are joined together by their pursuit of freedom as they viewed the inequality against African Americans.

King spoke of the limited freedom of the African Americans in “I have a Dream,” “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free”(King, Para. 3).

The central idea is that Martin Luther King Jr. persuaded a lot of people that they should go out and peacefully try and make a difference. In “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. he is very compelling because he uses a lot of figurative language to explain his reasoning behind why African Americans should have the same rights as whites. The most important paragraph was the third paragraph. A quote that describes it well is “ One hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.”

In exploring equality, “the removal of legal obstacles to equality of opportunity did not directly lead to equal results for African Americans as a group” (Moynihan 1). Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. echoed that sentiment in his I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, “But 100 years later the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination”(King). The sad fact is

The, “I Have a Dream” speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is arguably the most emotionally moving and persuasive speech of all time. But, to understand the speech one must first understand the context. At this time, the slave era was far gone but, not forgotten. Negro men and women were still experiencing segregation in the 1960’s. There was negro bathrooms, negro schools, negro water fountains, and even negro restaurants. Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential black man who took on the fight for equality. King presents his speech to a crowded Lincoln memorial — the same Lincoln who delivered the Emancipation Proclamation which freed enslaved Negros in the south nearly a hundred years before. King’s speech, later known as the, “I

“But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we 've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.” (Martin Luther King Jr).

From the very beginning of this book, the animals plan to take over the farm. They are tired of being treated the way that they are being treated. They work hard everyday and do whatever they are asked but don’t get treated the way that they should be treated. “No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth” (pg. 5). By the second chapter, the animals took out their rebellion when Mr. Jones and his men came out with whips in their hands and being extremely cruel. Then and there, they decided it was time. However, some animals did not want to take out the rebellion because some thought that without Mr. Jones, they would not survive. The majority however, were tired of their mistreatment. The symbolism that connects with these actions of the animals is the Russian Revolution. The Russian Revolution was also a rebellion. In 1917, there was two revolutions that took over Russia. The people of Russia were undergoing harsh mistreatment. Their cities were overcrowding and they went through food shortages because of the Crimean War. There were protests by the Russian workers and they ended up being massacred. By doing this, it sparked the second revolution. These revolutions ended centuries of Imperial Rule and eventually lead to the beginning of the Soviet Union.

Additionally, the animals also felt that their existing “rulers” had no interest in ensuring healthy animals and well-kept farm. In the novel, the animals’ “rulers” were the humans, mainly being Mr. Jones. The animals were unhappy with the condition they were in, before the revolution which was the pre-revolution. Forwarding to after the farm animals revolt, they are

The book Animal Farm is mainly about the animals having a rebellion against their master Mr. Jones and the overall life afterwards. In the beginning of the book, we learn about how the animals were treated by the master Mr. Jones. Old Major, the main inspire of the rebellion, decided to have a gathering of all farm animals, because he had an important message to help peruse the animals to have rebellion on how they have been treated. Also he wanted to start this because he was dying and knew he didn’t have much longer. Major started off by saying, “Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies,

Throughout Unit One and Unit Two in the first semester, we explored many different pieces of literature that appeared to be linked together. These books and articles all seemed to share a similar theme. Unit One’s pieces of literature shared the idea of the importance of books and a totalitarian state of government. Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, and 1984 are the books that we read in Unit One that expressed those ideas. In Unit Two, we discovered the different meanings of the American Dream and if we still think it is alive. We learned about the American Dream through multiple different sources such as the documentary Lewis and Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery, O Pioneers, and other pieces of literature.