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    Animal Farm Book Review Summary Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It is an allegory in which animals play the roles of Russian revolutionists, and overthrow the human owners of the farm. Once the farm has been taken over by the animals, they are all equal at first, but class and status soon separates the different animal species. This story describes how a society’s ideologies can be manipulated by those in political power, to cause corruption by those in leadership. Plot The story

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    The novels ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley and ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell are known to have different themes and initiate various conversations of beliefs. For example, ‘Frankenstein’ is known to formulate ideas of dangerous knowledge, sublime nature, and monstrosity, on the other hand, ‘Animal Farm’ is known to contrive perceptions of socialist ideas, class structures, and naivety of the working class. However, both novels share the concept of power. The idea of power takes many forms and these

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    George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, can be easily compared to countries and events in modern-day because of its practice of oppression. One way oppression has been created in modern-day events, Animal Farm and today’s countries is through the control of information. The control of information has created oppression in countries like North Korea and Russia. The corruption and control of the Russian government led to oppression in previous times. North Korea also uses this technique to oppress their

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    Through his book, Animal Farm, George Orwell is able to depict the events of the Russian Revolution and the working of the communist class system through personified farm animals. Before German philosopher, Karl Marx, died, he set ideas for the Communist Revolution to go into motion. In Animal Farm, a pig named Old Major gives a speech to the animals of the farm about the idea of a revolution. The next day, the old boar is found dead, therefore relating him to Karl Marx. The seven commandments that

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    The book Animal Farm was a book about the Russian Revolution of 1917(Orwell). A lot of these events that take place in the book have ties with real life events that have taken place or will take place. One example is when the animals take over the farm; this shares many similarities with the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait (”Persian Gulf War”). Or when the animals have to defend against the attacking humans,this also shares many similarities with The Battle Of Wanat (Cubbison). Infact, Boxer also has

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    recorded history, there has never been a time where a society has existed in absolute equality. George Orwell displays this truth through his book Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a fictitious novel that follows the story of animals that strive, but fail, to create and live in a truly equal society due to ingrained social statuses and corruption. Orwell’s Animal Farm-- a thinly veiled allegory for the Russian Revolution-- warns of the dangers blind acceptance and the allowance of unsupervised government, alongside

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    book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals overthrow the farmer Mr. Jones. By the end, all of the animals were under the control of the boar Napoleon. Many things went wrong along the way, and only some of the time the animals reflected and learned from the mistakes they made. An understanding of the past is essential in order to adequately guard against future mistakes. Jealousy is one flaw that farmers surrounding Animal Farm possessed. They were jealous of the fact that the animals were

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    The novel Animal Farm created by George Orwell, is based on the Russian Revolution but is re-created into a fairytale genre. It shares a variety of themes to that makes an indirect comparison to the Russian Revolution by turning the setting, characters and storyline into farm animals coping with their lives. Violence is a repetitive theme used throughout the book that indicate whether it’s a symbol of good or bad. Good as in fighting for their rights and taking it to war or bad as in using violence

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    Power is a very manipulative and dangerous force which can turn even the honorable into the side of corruption. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon, the leader of the animals on Animal Farm, put the animal through antagonizing and demoralizing situations as he changes the rules which the animals had adopted when creating their republic. The corruption caused from gaining power shows how true someone’s intentions as their actions are shown to be either selfless or self-centered. The influx

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    Animal Farm is a politically satiric novel that is partly a fable as well. It was written by George Orwell which is an alias of his actual name Eric Blair. In the novel, there is an irresponsible farm owner named Mr. Jones who spends most of his time unproductively and intoxicated instead of taking care of his dependent animals. Eventually, a boar named Old Major sparks the animals into planning a rebellion against the lazy farmer. After Old Major's death, the animals were sorrowful but continued

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