Animal Farm by George Orwell is an Effect Social Commentary

Pittman HUM 314 13 December 2016 George Orwell and Animal Farm: The Provocative Written Word in Political Protest INTRODUCTION AND THESIS Many writers, artists, novelists, journalists, and the sort seek to bring awareness to political and cultural issues through their work. It is not often, though, that their work attains such critically acclaimed status and subsequently creates a platform by which people are moved to respond to the writing’s purpose. George Orwell, however, had a knack for this

George Orwell’s novel ‘Animal Farm’, published in 1945, has an overarching theme of power and corruption. In the novel, once certain animals were given the opportunity to control the rest of the animals of the farm, the hierarchy was twisted for the leaders’ nefarious purposes. Misery quickly ensued. The governing animals became corrupted and nasty, while the controlled population was oppressed and miserable, forced to obey the controllers whims. This novel has much relevant social commentary on

government controlled career options,and restricted knowledge. Social commentary is found in the recent phenomenon called global warming. The mass air pollution and destruction of food resources in Interstellar is directly related to the high amounts of Co2 which causes the Earth to heat. Social Director Christopher Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema, use camera angles and lighting to magnify the chaos and social commentary in this dystopian society. The setting of Interstellar takes

I. Orwell, George. Burmese Days, Harcourt Inc, 1934. 287 pp. Patrick Morgan The World Since 1850 Greenstein Burmese Days Book Review September 27, 2010 II. George Orwell, born Eric Blair was born in Motihari, Bengal, a then British territory of India in 1903. He was very scholarly from a young age and earned scholarships to preparatory schools and both Wellington and Eton colleges. After furthering his education at Eton he joined the Indian Imperial Police Force in Burma. After

Cultural Impacts Culture in the form of society is seen throughout our everyday lives. It follows us, influences our understanding, thought-processes, and our empathy. For better or worse these "simple things" leave a mark in a never-ending cause and effect that tips the balance daily. Thus, dystopia is born: A society adamant in their efforts to ironically create a utopia in the place of a world scorned. Yet in the center of it all, a character rises to defeat it, seeing it as unsavory. It is there

To further research this question, the similar transitions of government and the similarities in the new authority figures displayed in Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies must be considered. As soon as both these new leaders start gaining ground in terms of authority, they abandon the ideologies of the previous regime, causing a transition of the government into one more despotic. They do this

Black Humor One of the most underappreciated and unrecognized forms of comedy is black humor. Black humor often deals with events that are not often associated with other forms of comedy, such as war, murder, insanity and death. The main reason that this form of comedy is so underappreciated is that it requires some thinking on the part of the audience and many people are not willing to do that. The types of humor that are popular today do not require much thinking and can be characterized

regulations and censorship procedures on media put in place by the Iranian government in the lead-up to the 2009 Presidential elections, any news of a manipulated election process would unlikely have reached the larger global community. It was only with social networking sites like Twitter that Iranian activists could raise the alert as to possible discrepancies in the re-election of President Ahmadinejad. • When the media has so many other motives, it can hardly be relied on to provide reliable information

TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS The purpose of Text Interpretation and Analysis is a literary and linguistic commentary in which the reader explains what the text reveals under close examination. Any literary work is unique. It is created by the author in accordance with his vision and is permeated with his idea of the world. The reader’s interpretation is also highly individual and depends to a great extent on his knowledge and personal experience. That’s why one cannot lay down a fixed “model”