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    up‚ and the theme of prejudice and racism which still is a problem today. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is considered a classic text because it holds historical importance and shows how easily humans can be corrupted by power. The story of To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Alabama‚ a town in Maycomb‚ during the Great Depression. The story is told in the eyes of Scout Finch‚ a six year old child (eight years old at the end of the novel)‚ who represents innocence in the novel. The title To Kill a Mockingbird

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    2010 Meanings Behind Animal Farm By: Ashley McCluskey Animal Farm is a book that represents many different things. The book has three levels of meaning. Animal farm is a childerns book because it has talking animals. It is a Satire of Communist Russia because a lot of the problems and characters represented in the story are like the problems and people of Communist Russia. Also‚ in this story it shows the different ways to abuse power. In the story Animal Farm by George Orwell‚ there are

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    Corruption’s Effects on Life The rebellion in George Orwell’s satire Animal Farm may have sounded appealing to the animals at first -never having to work for humans again- but they didn’t see the challenges and corruption in front of them. This book focuses on allegorizing the rise of Joseph Stalin and Soviet Communism. Readers are able to pull different biblical themes and perspectives out that should convict us as believers. A strong theme in this book is corruption‚ and Orwell conveys its effects

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    Animal Farm’s Satire Orwell uses satire as a genre for Animal Farm. He accomplishes this by using the animals to represent different people in Russian society. For example‚ Old Major symbolizes Marx and Lenin‚ Snowball represents Trotsky‚ and Napoleon embodies Stalin. One example of satire in Animal Farm is when Napoleon uses military power to keep the other animals under his control‚ exactly as Stalin had. He first showed this power by having his dogs execute anyone who had had any contact

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    can often drive a character‚ “Animal Farm” by George Orwell doesnt support this. It actually supports the opposite‚ like many other books. In “Animal Farm” the animals became cruel to each other under a cruel dictator who rose into power when the animals tried to escape the cruel treatment of their previous master. LIfe is cruel but just like us‚ charcter try to escape it and many times their lives and storyline will be based on their attempt at escaping. The animal worked for yet another long and

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    people into submission. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satirical portrayal of the Soviet Revolution‚ as there are many similarities and equivalents of characters and events between the novel and Soviet history. Whereby‚ the culture of fear existed in both and was exacerbated through the use of rhetoric. In Animal Farm‚ the pigs trap the other animals in a submission of power through the approach of propaganda and manipulation of language. Animal Farm is basically a fable on the history of Russia

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    Literary devices used in Animal Farm Timothy Quong What is the definition of a good novel? Opinions on this question may differ‚ but there are many things that good novels have in common. Most importantly‚ the reader must enjoy the novel. When I use the word enjoy‚ I don’t necessarily mean that it should make the reader ‘happy’ or ‘joyful’. The novel should give the reader a valuable or worthwhile experience. Many good novels often address topics that relate to our own reality. In

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    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 and events in the Soviet Union during the mid-twentieth century. When George Orwell set out to write Animal Farm‚ his purpose was to “fuse political and artistic purpose into one whole‚ providing a disillusion through wit‚ dramatized irony‚ and intertextuality” (Bloom

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    Question 1 - Characterisation In Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses the names of his characters to reflect their personal traits and what they represent in the book. Napoleon After the death of Old Major‚ Napoleon emerges as a leader corrupted with power. Napoleon never makes a contribution to the revolution and never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself‚ only to the strength of his power over it and the rest of the Animals. His namesake‚ Napoleon Bonaparte‚ also betrayed the principles

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    his novel Animal Farm demonstrates this idea. The animals represent the people in the Russian Revolution. Struggling for freedom‚ but not being able to see past the wants of their leaders. The animals and the Russian citizens don’t realize the rights that are being taken from them. Both‚ the Russians and the animals never questioned authority. In the novel Animal Farm‚ the farm comes full circle post revolution demonstrating the consequences of having a leader-follower society. Animal Farm is about

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