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    I personally thought animal farm was a really good book. It was a simple, easy to read story. The analysis of this book is pretty easy to figure out. Animal farm represents Communism in Russia and it is just being retold in his book by farm animals. Every part of Joseph Sterling's rise to power is in this book. The Russian Revolution represents the animals overthrowing Mr. Jones. Old Major (a boar) gathers the animals of the manor farm together for a meeting in the barn. He tells all of them

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    “Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling, it must increase”(Charles C. Colton). An example of corruption is seen when Napoleon starts to modify the Seven Commandments on the farm. Orwell writes,”Muriel read the Commandment for her. It read:’No animal shall kill any other animal without cause’”(98). This demonstrates the idea of power Napoleon cherishes, which is the ability to do anything without consequence. This matters to the theme since it gives Napoleon the ability to execute

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    tastes of modern day society, books and novels have different types and genres, all having in common the objective to please the reader and to convey morals and themes to the audience. In the 20th century were written 2 novels, The Chrysalids and Animal Farm, which will be compared and contrasted in the following essay, demonstrating the fact that they both target the general audience and not one particular group of readers. The comparison between both novels will be done via the contrast of specific

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    Animal Farm In-Class Essay – Notes ================================== Introduction In the allegory, Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1993) many of the characters are representative of real people, and I have chosen to write about Napoleon and Snowball, the two types of leaders, and how their struggle for power ultimately left both them, and their nation, in ruins. Napoleon Napoleon is an interesting character, as he starts out as being a quiet, behind the scenes stereotype, but he eventually ends up

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    speech. Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is a fairy tale story representing the failures of communism on the set of a simple farm in England named Manor Farm. Orwell tells the story about Mr. Jones and his neglected farm. A prized boar named Old Major gathers the animals together for a meeting and the decide there to overthrow Jones. His plan is for every animal to be equal, free of the human race. Sadly, Old Major dies and chaos begins. The pigs soon rise to leadership, being the smartest animal on the

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    Animal Farm by George Orwell is a magnificent novel highlighting what power can really do to a person or in the novel’s case an animal. Orwell makes multiple relations to Russia and what went on during the Cold War throughout the course of the novel. He also shadows different forms of government such as communism, capitalism, and totalitarianism by how the farm runs. In Animal Farm Napoleon and Snowball the pig are suddenly thrown into power when the animals throw out Mr. Jones for his poor treatment

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    ‘’All animals are equal but, some animals are more equal than others”. Animal Farm by George Orwell, published by the Penguin Group in 2008 and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide (Middendorp), captivated many individuals to realize the harsh truth about privilege. George Orwell wrote the book during the war as a cautionary fable in order to expose the seriousness of the dangers posed by Stalinism and totalitarian government (Asnes). The allegory takes place in Manor Farm that is owned by

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    Throughout Animal Farm, George Orwell showcases the dark side of communism through its leaders. While the true dictator of animal farm is Napoleon, his rise to power would not have been possible without his mouthpiece, Squealer. However, the novel also pointedly displays how the animals were partly to blame for the own oppression. Many of the animals aided their enslavement through their own ignorance and uncertainty. However, one in particular could have opened the eyes of the others to the tyranny

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    the Soviet Union into a dictatorship. In the allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell, which pertains to the Russian Revolution, the animals of the Manor Farm are ruled by a tyrannical farmer named Jones, who murders chickens and gives the animals minimal rations. Due to the atrocities and a prophecy foretold by Old Major, a wise, old respected pig, about full independence from humans, the animals drive out their human oppressors and form an animal republic. However, the evil pigs start to take control

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    who were unhappy with the imperial government overthrew it to create a system that will give everyone what they deserved. The novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, emulates the events that lead to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Stalinist era that followed it. Animal Farm is the story of a farm overtaken by its occupants, the mistreated, abused animals. They seek for equality and freedom to create their own paradise, free from the inequality and injustice they bore with humans. To create

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