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    Animal Farm Parallels In the book  Animal Farm‚  George Orwell uses animals to symbolically represent humans and man’s creation of government and society. Orwell allegorically uses animals and their social groups to criticize Joseph Stalin’s rise to power‚ the overall nature of mankind‚ and the many difficulties that people must face in life. In the story there are many parallels that symbolically represents situations from the Russian Revolution. Some of the parallels are Trotsky to Snowball‚the different ideology and dislike

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    The Power of Language George Orwell‚ writer of the novel Animal Farm shows how the abuse of language becomes a vehicle for the abuse of power. Napoleon is intelligent enough to understand how he can use Squealer to promote propaganda in order to entrench himself as the leader. Napoleon uses Squealer as his spokesman because Napoleon does not possess the oral skills Squealer has. Squealer does nothing of his own‚ but only under Napoleon’s orders. George Orwell uses the character Napoleon

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    When it Hit the Fan To the animals on Animal Farm things seem to be perfectly fine. But how are they supposed to know? They have been brainwashed by their meticulous leader Napoleon. They believe every single one of his little lies. The only one that doesn’t fall for it is Benjamin and he doesn’t get involved. The animals have no idea that the things that they have been working their butts off for are being stolen and used for selfish wants. Very few of the animals remember the times before the

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    Animal Farm (Synopsis) Animal farm was writing and published just as the cold war began to start. But the events in the book represent the time between 1917 and 1943‚ and the characters symbolize individuals in Russia at that time period. For example Napoleon (one of the pigs) represents Joseph Stalin who was the second leader for the Soviet Union he helped make it in to a superpower. Napoleon took control of the farm after Old Major passed away. Old Major portrays Karl Marx who was

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    Throughout the play squealer is responsible for bringing about changes on animal farm after jones is expelled. In this essay I’m going to explain why. In the extract‚ squealer is trying to convince the animals that the pigs are doing everything for the animals and for the farm. The pigs are taking all the privileges on the farm for themselves. Squealer threatens the animals by saying ’do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes‚ jones would come back

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    regarded by the other animals. He began the whole idea of the revolution. * Boxer was a huge‚ strong horse‚ not very smart but of good character. Clover was a motherly‚ middle-aged mare. * Benjamin was a donkey‚ the oldest animal on the farm. He was skeptical‚ cynical‚ and never laughed. Also‚ he was friends with Boxer. * Mollie was a "foolish‚ pretty white mare" who liked sugar and pretty ribbons. 2. For what purpose did Major call the meeting of the animals? He wanted to tell them

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    Animal Farm Persuasive Essay Side: Napoleon Imagine rolling hills of golden wheat‚ orchards filled with juicy ripened fruit dangling from green trees‚ a cheery red barn with mountains of soft hay‚ animals happily roaming the vast farm with not a single human in sight. Not one other farm has ever accomplished what we have. Hello‚ my name is Velvet and I am a horse who has been born and raised on the farm. I was there when Old Major gave his famous speech and I too fought against Jones and his

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    Major uses some techniques of propaganda in his speech to the animals - he identifies humans as the enemy‚ and attempts to unite them all against this common enemy. He promises that their lives will be better and easier if they do what he suggests and overthrow the humans. He also teaches them a simple‚ easy-to-remember song‚ Beasts of England‚ to inspire them with his ideas. Although he genuinely believes that he is acting in the animals’ best interests and is not trying to deceive them‚ this is all

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    The animals on Animal Farm learned the hard way at the hands of one pig‚ Napoleon‚ that a government’s power must be limited‚ or else it will be corrupt. Napoleon has the support of a majority of the animals on the farm. He also changes in order to maintain his authority. His main goal is to be as controlling as the humans once were. Napoleon is the most powerful character on Animal Farm. Some people may say that Boxer has much more support on the farm than Napoleon

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    Animal Farm: Comparison of Animal Characters with Human characters Animal Farm by George Orwell is a political story concerning the concept of Leninist Marxism‚ written from an animal’s perspective. It is a story of dreams; dreams of freedom and equality that are dashed into pieces by greed and avarice for power and comfort. Basically‚ Orwell has incorporated his own political views in this book regarding Marxism and simultaneously he has spotlighted the major flaws in Marxist philosophy which

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