Animal Farm‚ written by George Orwell in 1945‚ portrays the Russian Revolution by using animals on a farm as symbols of political figures‚ such as Lenin and Stalin‚ and historical events as well. Orwell often wrote books such as Animal farm so that he can reflect and share his concern on the political and social circumstances of his day@. After the animals were treated brutally‚ they decided to revolt and rule the farm on their own. This resulted in them being in the hands of Napoleon‚ who was one
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George Orwell wrote Animal Farm in 1945. Animal Farm was meant to portray the Russian Revolution that was going on at the time. If Orwell were to openly oppose the ways of the communist party he would have undoubtedly been prosecuted. Instead Orwell wrote Animal Farm to express his hatred for communism in a discreet way; he had done this by making it simple and childlike. Therefore he called Animal Farm a “Fairy Story”. However‚ Animal Farm is not a fairy story but an allegory. An allegory is a story
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in Russia that lead up to the Revolution and lasted during “Stalin era‚” and exhibits noteworthy symbolism between common farm animals and important communist/socialist leaders and political groups at the time‚ including Karl Marx/ Vladimir Lenin‚ Leon Trotsky‚ and Joseph Stalin. The actual plot of the novel follows a group of farm animals who overthrow a farm owner by force and set up their own community‚ in which all animals are treated equally‚ where all of them equally share the workload‚ and
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Luke Campbell Mrs. P. McDonald English 11 P4 March 9th‚ 2011 A FAIRY STORY During the twentieth century‚ the people of the world saw the rise and fall of many nations and leaders. This was a time of high tensions and careful diplomacy‚ where people had to tread carefully lest they become suspicious. However‚ some took up a crusade against this careful attitude and used writing to diffuse situations. In his novel Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses his mastery of satire to discuss and parody people
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The Russian Revolution was a time of change. It completely changed the world with the fall of the autocracy and the monarch ruling without question and the first ever communist state. Through the use of ideology‚ the Bolsheviks could achieve their goal without the use of violence. The people involved would each play a key role in the revolution. The events that led up to the resulting violence at the end of the revolution were also very important to consider. The events towards the end of the revolution
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Leon Festinger created the cognitive dissonance theory as an attempt to explain why people desire to have consistency between their behaviors and actions. Cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state people feel when they find themselves doing things that don’t fit with what they know‚ or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold (Festinger‚ 1957; as cited in Griffin‚ 2009). Thus‚ people are motivated to change either their behavior or their belief when feelings of dissonance
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Though there are no artworks dedicated solely to the revolution and its effect upon her‚ it is clear in some of her works the effect the revolution and its figures had upon her like “Nucleus of Creation” (1945) and “Self-Portrait dedicated to Leon Trotsky” (1937)‚ the prominent figure and Kahlo shared a brief affair and she presented to him on his birthday November 7th‚ the anniversary of the Russian
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having only one advantage‚ mainly‚ that of being more tolerant‚ more loyal‚ more polite‚ and more considerate to the comrades‚ less capricious‚ etc.” (Quote from Lenin’s Letter). January 21‚ 1924 Lenin dies‚ and a struggle for power between Stalin and Leon Trotsky takes place. Josep Stalin resulted as the victor‚ and for the next 30 years he would lead Russia towards a fast industrialization process that caused millions of deaths. Furthermore‚ it is accurate to say that Joseph Stalin’s rise was due to
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Leaders use many tactics to withhold power and maintain control over the ignorant people. Joseph Stalin‚ the leader of the USSR from 1922-1952‚ used many clever and sometimes gory techniques to keep his power over the Soviet people. These strategies are shown in George Orwell’s allegory of the Russian revolution‚ Animal Farm. Napoleon‚ the self-proclaimed leader of Animal Farm and allegorical representation of Joseph Stalin‚ has quite a few crafty and cunning ways to retain his authority over the
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specific form of corruption on Animal Farm. All in all‚ considering Animal farm as an allegory‚ the novel demonstrated that this form of inequality was also evident during the Russian Revolution as a consequence of having Joseph Stalin (Napoleon) and Leon Trotsky (Snowball) as the
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