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    Animal Farm is both an allegory and a fable that uses personified animals to tell of struggles of a communist society that leads to a dystopian future. An allegory is a story or poem in which characters‚ setting‚ and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. Animal Farm accurately portrays the Russian Revolution by using animals to stand for people and the pigs represent the powerful leaders of a Communist nation. A fable is a very short story told in prose or poetry

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    The novel 1984 was written by George Orwell in 1948‚ almost half a century before the year in which the novel was based. In this essay‚ I will demonstrate that the social and political environment at that time in history as well as the author’s personal life and conditions had a tremendous impact on the concept and completion of the novel. Orwell’s personal beliefs and idealism critically influenced his writing. In the late 1920’s‚ Orwell believed in anarchism and in 1936‚ he travelled to Spain

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    have too much power. Society trusts them and which is why they believe that they live in an imaginary world where everything looks like a dream. A Utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect‚ does not exist. It turned into its opposite‚ which is a dystopia. It is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad. Utopias become dystopia because perfect world is not that perfect like everybody expected. The “1984” by George Orwell show how the

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    often a result of unbridled power. In both Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Animal Farm by George Orwell there are various aspects of power present. The fight for power between Snowball and Napoleon that Orwell showed us‚ is somewhat similar to the power struggle between Hamlet and Claudius presented by Shakespeare. Although‚ in Hamlet the power struggle is mainly because of lineage and in Animal Farm it is more of a political clash in opinions that causes the fight for power. In both texts‚ the main

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    In Animal Farm‚ written by George Orwell an important character throughout was Napoleon. Napoleon is a pig who believed he was superior to all the other animals‚ he began a revolution and turned “his” farms animals into his workers in order to industrialise themselves. Napoleon is a manipulative‚ selfish character who played a leading role in the rise and fall of Animal Farm. Napoleon was the worst of the worst. A powerful dictator. He wanted to live up to Old Majors standard and how he saw it

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    throughout most of the story is a strong and loyal animal but when napoleon says false things like when he said the human invaders had been helped by snowball boxer had looked deep into his memory‚ he knew he saw snowball get shot in the back and how he had bravely lead them into battle. Boxer had showed such strength and loyalty that napoleon had used both to his power hungry ways from him working hard for the windmill; napoleon had started to give the animals less and less food because since the pigs were

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    what would happen if humanity was completely controlled by one entity? 1984 is a novel that warns people about a life without any control over humanity. Power‚ control‚ surveillance and manipulation are all emulated throughout 1984 by Big Brother and the Party principles. Orwell advances his message of complete control over and manipulation are all emulated throughout 1984 by Big Brother and the Party principles. Orwell advances his message of complete control over society on them. Big Brother represents

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    The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory based on the Russian Revolution. Every animal is supposed to represent one of the figures that played a part in the Russian Revolution. The book basically retells the story of how the factory workers overthrew the Czar and what happened after that by embedding into a book about animals and their society. Maqasid Al-Shariah Made Simple by Mohammad Hashim Kamali explains the Shariah society. He explains the goals and objectives in detail‚ but also

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    “Friends‚ let us meet at the windmill. I have something to tell you all‚” said Benjamin outraged. All the animals followed him. Some because they knew what he was going to say‚ others because they were confused. “I have lived a lot longer than most of you standing here today‚ but I cannot stand by and watch this anymore. We no longer live on a free farm. I think we have all known that for a very long time‚ but we have all been so intimidated by Napoleon that no one has stood up to him. That is

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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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