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    nowadays? Good morning teacher and my fellow classmates. Today I’m going to have a presentation based on the book Animal Farm‚ written by George Orwell. It is a satire as well as a fiction. This book is basically about a revolution that take place in the Manor Farm‚ where the animals can no longer tolerate the human owner‚ Mr. jones‚ who didn’t provide enough food for the animals‚ leaving them starving but forcing them to work very hard at the same time‚ and rise up under the commands of mainly

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    Animal Farm follows the hardships during the time of the Russian Revolution. In this novel‚ the need for power begins to fog a dictator’s perspective along the road to leadership. In this novel‚ the animals on Manor Farm realize that they are not happy with the way they are being treated and believe that‚ when compared to humans‚ they are superior due to the fact that all animals produce goods while humans do not. Unhappy from the lack of care‚ food‚ and life‚ the animals decide to take charge and

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    allegory ‘Animal Farm’ explores several major concerns. These depicted in the novel and excerpt include propaganda and duplicity as well as intelligence and education as tools of oppression. In order for the pigs to control the lives and viewpoints of the other animals they use propaganda and duplicity to their advantage. Propaganda is the form of communication that serves the purpose of deceiving or fooling others. Squealers uses propaganda to good effect when he provides the animals with false

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    “The farm was more prosperous now‚ and better organized; it had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington. The windmill had been successfully completed at last‚ and the farm possessed a threshing machine and a hay elevator of its own‚ and various new buildings had been added to it” [p.128]. All of these modern new machines had been due- according to Squealer- to Napoleon’s hard work and love for the animals on the farm. When in reality it had been gained on the backs

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    Animal Farm Throughout the novel‚ the pigs manipulate their superiority towards other animals using trickery and education to justify their behavior and actions. Based on the rationale that the pigs were the self-proclaimed “brains of the farm”‚ they thought they had the right to reside inside the farmhouse. Despite the skepticism of the other animals‚ Squealer manages to persuade them that everything they were doing was within the constitution that they had set forth. The original constitution

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    Following is an excerpt from a letter from George Orwell to Dwight Macdonald‚ written in December 1946‚ soon after the publication of Animal Farm in the US. According to the editor of the letters‚ Peter Davison‚ who also supplied the footnotes‚ Macdonald wrote Orwell that anti-Stalinist intellectuals of his acquaintance claimed that the parable of Animal Farm meant that revolution always ended badly for the underdog‚ “hence to hell with it and hail the status quo.” He himself read the book as

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    In the book Animal Farm‚ the character Napoleon builds up power as a leader and maintains it throughout the book using various schemes and techniques. This essay will explain how Napoleon creates and maintains his power from the turning point of the book. I shall start with his creation of power then the maintenance of power and I shall use quotations from the book to help explain my thoughts. The first obstacle Napoleon has to get rid of to obtain total power is Snowball. Snowball stand as his

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    Animal Farm George Orwell Submitted By: Ryan Jay Enclona H3-Justice Submitted To: Ms. Aila Velasquez Table of Contents I. Biography of the Author………………………………………………….………1 II. Background of the Story………………………………………………………….2 III. Characters (Tell me about the characters in the book. You are to include their role in the book‚ a physical description of their appearance and a description of their personality) IV. Setting (*Describe the setting in detail. *Be as specific as possible

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    I absolutely agree with Abraham Lincoln’s statement. Power is not a jocular matter‚ if someone is presented with power it can get to their head and they can become corrupt. These people believe just because they are in charge and have power that they can do anything and go against the rules. Due to too much power‚ people may think they are more powerful than everyone else and put themselves in front of others. Too much power makes it easy for selfish leaders to pursue their own goals at the expense

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    Power Corruption George Orwell believed in using axioms (a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established‚ accepted‚ or self-evidently true)‚ to prove or describe a point he has previously made. One axiom in particular that Orwell uses is as follows: “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This statement can be proved true not only through works of fiction‚ but also through actual historical and current events. First of all‚ the theme of power through corruption

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