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    In the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell multiple similarities and differences are found throughout the text and film. As soon as the film started the viewer noticed that Jesse, the protagonist will persist the narration since she starts off by explaining her past life on the farm. This did not happen in the novel, throughout the text there are multiple narrations but on the novel Jesse only does narration. Jesse talks about all the changes that happen throughout the farm while Napoleon contains

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    George Orwell creates Animal Farm in order to tell the audience their views about the truth and the evil of the society and government. The novel, Animal Farm, By George Orwell, has written this in 1945 to make a clear social comment. A social comment is a spoken or written act of rebellion toward an individual or group, commentary on social issues or society. In Animal Farm, Orwell has used the character to make clear social comments about fear, force and control. The author makes this clear through

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    what its meaning for ourselves. Written by English novelist George Orwell, the novel Animal Farm uses a literary device known as an allegory. A text that is used to convey hidden meanings through the uses of symbolism such as figures and events. The way the novel utilizes this technique to tell what the author’s view of equality is, is it sets the story on a farm where as the story progresses, the animals on the farm overthrow the ruler, the farmer, and form a new form of government to rule the establishment

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    George Orwell is a very well-known author, with obvious, strong, socialist influence. His experience of many forms of political ideas and states throughout his travels and writing show strongly in books like Animal Farm. Thus, which has very strong messages and statements about Soviet government. Many of the ideas expressed in the story are evident of his own ideas and opinions. For example, Orwell believed that those in power regularly manipulate language and communication to their own benefit.

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    In the play Macbeth and the book Animal farm, the idea of power is well presented by Shakespeare and Orwell. In which both lead to the key protagonists gaining complete power, and it leading to complete corruption. Macbeth was written between 1603-1606. It was written to please the newly throned King James IV of Scotland. This is evident in the play as Shakespeare shows regicide would have been feasible, but unthinkable to the Jacobean audience, who had lived through the gunpowder plot aimed at targeting

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    George Orwell’s work Animal Farm portrays human society and its blemishes. Although Orwell wrote the book to expose Communist Russia and its flawed ideology, the fairy story depicts the world and society as a whole. While the tale details the self-indulgence and greed that political leaders -- most commonly tyrants and dictators -- exploit, it also features inspirational figures and teachings. It describes the effects of propaganda and the danger of ignorance and naiveté. Animal Farm is a novel with a

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    Animal Farm Boxer Essay

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    Boxer is a fictional horse in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which is a satire of the Russian Revolution. Many characters allude to different groups or important people from this era, and this applies to Boxer as well. Boxer is a representation of the working class because of his qualities, personality, his role in the novel and his motto. Orwell expresses much criticism towards the character of Boxer because he lets Napoleon think for him. Boxer’s qualities directly relate to the Soviets working

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    are two farmers who run different farms. Fredrick is quite rude and shrewd while Pinchfield is easygoing 2. The battle of cowshed is when Mr. Jones, Mr. Pinchfield, and Mr. Fredrick go and attack the farm to try to get it back. The small animals start attacking them when Snowball order them to retreat. The farmer’s then think there winning but then all the big animals like Boxer and all the cows start fighting them. They then run away. 3. They receive the animal hero’s award. Both Boxer and Snowball

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    was a very interesting read. Several things that need to be discussed are the uses of allegory and rhetorical components in the story. The overall plot in the story is an allegory in itself. The farm animals band together in the story to over throw the humans running the farm. This is like the Bolshevik revolutionaries who overthrow the government. Slowly classes start to emerge and certain class begins to act just the like the party that was overthrown in the beginning. These

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    Loyalty Give A Person Too Much Power? A theme in the book Animal Farm, written by George Orwell is the theme loyalty. Loyalty towards an enemy is a theme in the book Animal Farm due to the animals being loyal to an enemy named Napoleon. A question that is related to the theme of this book is why were the animals loyal to Napoleon? They were loyal because Napoleon promised things to them and took advantage of them knowing that the animals had weaknesses. Napoleon was their leader, and they followed

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