allegory ‘Animal Farm’ (first published in 1945)‚ written by George Orwell‚ both convey the same themes and morals. The values presented by both Orwell and the Wachowski Brothers are abuse of power‚ lack of privacy and manipulation of people by the use of propaganda. The use of power can be taken for granted; it can be used for good or evil. In the movie‚ ‘The Matrix’ and the novel ‘Animal Farm’ they both overuse power for evil and it ends in horrible consequences. In the novel ‘Animal Farm’ the pigs are
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Animal farm Essay “What is the satirical comment that Orwell is trying to make in Animal Farm & how does he achieve this?” George Orwell’s famous Allegorical Beast fable titled Animal Farm‚ comments on the Russian revolution and on the misuse and abuse of power. A master piece of political satire‚ Animal Farm is a tale of oppressed individuals who long for freedom. Through his literary links to scapegoating‚ revisionism and propaganda Orwell makes a satirical comment on the way in which those
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Names ______________________________________ Date _______________________ Period ____ Animal Farm by George Orwell Themes: ➢ Language is a powerful tool for persuasion ➢ Individuals must fight for rights and equality under the law ➢ Absolute power leads to corruption Characters: |Character |Brief Description in your own words |Quote from the text that illustrates character. Include page | |
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the last 200 years‚ in the farming realm‚ in order to create better crop yields and‚ more importantly‚ make farming a whole lot easier for the typical farmer (typical meaning a 750-1500 acre farm). Technology has come a long way in the farming industry which makes the farm and the equipment used on the farm nothing like what it started out as‚ the seed is also very different than originally used. The farmers and the crops they produce are an important part in maintaining the economy because they
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The novel Animal Farm is a satire of the Russian revolution‚ and therefore full of symbolism. Generally‚ Orwell associates certain real characters with the characters of the book. Here is a list of the characters and things and their meaning: Mr. Jones: Mr. Jones is one of Orwell’s major (or at least most obvious) villain in Animal Farm. Orwell says that at one time Jones was actually a decent master to his animals. At this time the farm was thriving. But in recent years the farm had fallen on harder
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Animal Farm: Timeless Propaganda Upon Animal Farm’s first publication in 1945‚ it quickly became a success and is now regarded as one of the best allegories of Soviet totalitarianism ever written. All of its characters provided a representation of Soviet Russia’s political figures‚ with its main character‚ Napoleon‚ illustrating Joseph Stalin and a corrupt totalitarian rule. The book parodies Stalin’s rise to power and his eventual total control of nearly every aspect of personal and private
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The characters in Animal Farm by George Orwell‚ personifies animals in the place of people in the Russian Revolution to simply show the characteristics of the overall nature of mankind. Two opposite ends of the moral scale are displayed through the horse Boxer‚ a sincere‚ hard working supporter of his former friend Napoleon the pig dictator. Traits defining these individuals are constant. The faultless virtue of Boxer embodies positive traits of the human race‚ whereas Napoleon is full of the negative
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scapegoat‚ and was exiled from his home lane. This person was Leon Trotsky‚ a Russian Marxist revolutionary. In the novel Animal Farm‚ Trotsky came out through a pig named Snowball. Throughout the novel‚ Trotsky is brought up more and more through snowball. Leon Trotsky is represented through Snowball by the many life events they had in common. Snowball was chased away from the farm and became an exile by Napoleons trained dogs. In Trotsky’s life‚ he too became an exile from his home. He sent away and banned
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HOW PROPAGANDA WAS USED IN ANIMAL FARM Propaganda is used by people to falsify or distort the truth. In the book Animal Farm‚ many things happened to Napoleon and the other pigs because of using propaganda. First of all‚ Napoleon and the pigs used propaganda to tell lies the animals would believe. For example‚ when Boxer was taken away in the knacker truck‚ Squealer got all the animals to believe that the truck had been bought by the hospital‚ but they hadn’t taken the stickers on the side
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end badly. Actually‚ it may be the opposite‚ at least that’s what George Orwell‚ author of Animal Farm‚ believes. Orwell believes that revolution against tyranny only ends up with another tyrant because of the way the pigs treat the other animals‚ how the pigs slowly break the 7 Commandments‚ and how the pigs end up exactly like the humans in the end. The way the pigs treated the other animals on the farm was similar to that of a tyrant. They lied‚ manipulated‚ and even killed other animals. At one
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