...Animal Farm is the iconic satire by George Orwell depicting the horrors that took place after the Russian Revolution and the dangers of a totalitarian government. However, the movie adaptation of the novel varies from the original novel. In the movie, we follow a main protagonist who guides us through the story and narrates events. I found this to be unnecessary. Personally, I thought the story fared better in third person. This allowed us to view the story from different perspectives and did not limit us to simply the opinion of the narrator. Having the novel in third person added a feeling of looming despair and frustration because the animals blindly followed Napoleon and doubted themselves before they dared doubt him which allowed...
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...Comparative essay- Animal Farm Animal farm- Paragraph 1- manipulation by the pigs State they are educated elite, use intellectual superiority to manipulate the other animals. Quote shows them as apathetic and meddlers. State how Orwell is criticising Stalin and his Government. Paragraph 2- Propaganda by the pigs State Napoleon uses propaganda through squealer to push his ideas and implement his plans. Quote shows that Napoleon uses propaganda to get what he wants. State that Orwell is criticising Stalin’s manipulation of the Russian society a big ally of the propaganda is the animal’s ignorance and false memory Paragraph 3- Power of Napoleon State that Napoleon, whom represents Stalin, only gained and keeps his power through cruelty, treachery and making the other animals scared of him. Show that after the rebellion, Napoleon has taken the place of Mr Jones (seen through quote) State that the quote shows that Napoleon has dominance over the farm like Mr Jones. State that Orwell is criticising that after a rebellion, inevitably someone will rise to power over all and everything will be the same, maybe worse. Quotes- For manipulation- ‘Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed? ... It says, ‘no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.’ (cynicism) For propaganda- When squealer assures the animals about trading with humans- ...
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...Comparative Essay - Ansooooonnn The two satirical texts ‘Animal Farm’ written by George Orwell and ‘The Trials of Brother Jero’ by Wole Soyinka both possess similarities and contrasts relating to certain concepts. A certain concept that can be investigated is how the texts mock society through the employment of literary techniques. The literary techniques portrayed throughout irony link to the mockery within the two texts. Satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing or deriding human folly. ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘The Trials of Brother Jero’ both satirize a concept of society. ‘Animal Farm’ satirizes the corruption of Communist power during the Russian Revolution whilst the ‘The Trials of Brother Jero’ satirizes the Religion in the modern Nigerian Society. Irony is a component of satire and the literary techniques found in both texts can affect the meaning of the texts. There are different types of irony found in both texts. The irony in ‘Animal Farm’ is found in chapter 3, page 23. The pigs take the milk and apples away from the other animals for their own needs and manipulate them to believe that it is for their ‘own good.’ A literary technique included in this irony is diction. In Squealer’s speech to the animals discussing that the milk and apples contain ‘the necessary substances to the well-being of a pig’, he claims that ‘it has been proven by science.’ The use of diction by claiming that it has been ‘proven by science’ can manipulate...
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...Animal Farm Essay What would a society be like if all of its inhabitants were uneducated? What if no one could make a clear and distinct decision for themselves about what is right and what is wrong? If they allowed a ruler to have absolute control over their future lives and present quality of life, then the ruler would promptly become corrupt from this new overload of authority. An uneducated person is taught how to think whereas an indoctrinated person is taught what to think. There is an unmistakable difference; the ability to formulate one’s own opinion and draw one’s own conclusions greatly influences the structure of any society. George Orwell emphasizes the importance of an education in his allegorical and satirical novel "Animal Farm". The political nature within the book leads to the questioning of propaganda and indoctrination. Readers will recognize after reading the novel that education and who delivers the education are important matters. It is clear that Orwell suggests that the animals within the book do not think for themselves, and only do what they are told too. From the beginning of the novel, readers become aware of educations role in stratifying Animal Farm’s population. Following Old Major’s death the pigs are the ones that take on the task of organizing and mobilizing the other animals because they are “generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals” (Orwell 35). At first the pigs are loyal to their fellow animals and to the revolutionary...
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...AP Literature The classic novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell unravels the story of a group of farm animals who craved freedom from humans. Many of the characters in Animal Farm relate to ideas and people involved in the Russian Revolution such as, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx and the idea of communism. George Orwell tends to give animals on the farm characteristics of those who lead the Russian Revolution. The novel is simply a reflection of this time period with the twist of the people involved being portrayed as animals instead. George Orwell's novel Animal Farm is directly related to the Russian Revolution in several ways. In the novel Animal Farm, Mr. Jones treats his animals extremely poorly and fails to give them enough food to be healthy (Orwell 18). He is sometimes cruel in which he beats his animals with whips and on the other hand he is sometimes kind by mixing milk into the animals' mash. This relates to Czar Nicholas II of the Russian Revolution. He was a poor leader compared to his western kings and he was sometimes cruel and brutal with opponents, and other times he was kind and hired spies to make money (CITE). Old Major is also a character that can be compared, he taught animalism as Karl Marx had taught and invented communism. Major also spoke of how the animals did all the work while the humans kept all the money and for that reason the animals should revolt against mankind. Marx believed that the workers of the...
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...Animal Farm George Orwell Book Review 1 Mr and Mrs Jones are owners of a Farm in England. On night, while the Mr Jones is sleeping, the animals join together in the barn on Old Major’s (an old pig) initiative. The pig had a revelation during the night: “the man is the enemy of all animals and we must get rid of him”. Everybody agree and they sing together. The noise wakes up the farmer who shoots on them. Three nights later, Old Sage dies. Then, Napoleon, Snowball and Squealer, three other pigs create a new philosophical system: Animalism. They begin to lead the other animals. Mr Jones can’t work anymore because of alcoholism so some workers must take care of the farm. They are very mean and the animals have nothing to eat. The animals rebel and scare away workers and Mrs. Jones. Now they are alone in the farm. They destroy everything and keep only the home of the farmers as a museum. Pigs learn to read, rename the farm "Animal Farm" and write on the wall the "Seven Commandments" of the Animalism: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal. Cows do not feel well because no one can milk them. The pigs run it and then leave the milk out. The evening, the milk disappears. Animals live happy, better than with man. However, some animals work less than others...
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...Much critical attention has been given to Eudora Welty’s use of symbols and mythology in her fiction, but there has been no thorough examination of her use of allegory.1 Yet allegory finds its way into Welty’s fiction as she makes use of names, characters, and features of landscape that invite investigation of another, submerged level of meaning. This is not to say that any of Welty’s fiction is strictly allegorical—at least with respect to the traditional understanding of the form—but that Welty’s texts often teasingly beckon the reader to interpret the text allegorically and then complicate and frustrate the revelation of a singular second level of meaning. In this essay, I will examine how Welty incorporates many facets of allegory in her novel Losing Battles. As part of this investigation, I first provide a brief overview of allegory in order to develop a working concept for my argument. I then turn to John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress—one of the most widely read allegorical texts in all of literature—both to offer a paradigmatic example of traditional allegory and to allow an understanding of how Welty engages with Bunyan’s text. Then, after reviewing Welty’s personal familiarity with The Pilgrim’s Progress and identifying her allusions to it throughout her work, I turn my attention to Losing Battles. In focusing on Welty’s long novel, I scrutinize those features that allegorically beckon to the reader as I explore and seek to articulate how Welty’s technique suggests...
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...Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution The years of leading up to the Russian revolution were bleak for the Russian population. Russians were poor, starving, and fed up with the Tsar. The revolution began with the ideas of Lenin, which carried on to Trotsky and ultimately Stalin, who completely changed Russia. The resemblance between these three leaders of the Russian revolution and the three leaders of Animal Farm, Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon, shows that the movie Animal Farm is an allegory to the Russian Revolution. Old Major, the original leader of Animal Farm, closely resembles Lenin. The most notable similarity is that both Old Major and Lenin are both the original leaders and they both place the idea of revolution into the minds of their followers. Besides the fact that they are the original leaders of their revolutions, Lenin and Old Major share the common ideas of freedom and equality as well. They are also avid believers in the ideas of Karl Marx, who had written about the bourgeois rebelling against the proletariat. Lenin uses the ideas of Karl Marx to encourage the poor and famished workers in Russia to revolt. He promised them peace, land, and bread which are three things the Russians did not have. As a result, Lenin is able to overthrow the tsar and make a socialist government where everyone is equal and everything is owned by the state. Old Major does something similar by convincing the farm animals that removing the humans, who are essentially the proletariat...
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...ANIMAL FARM First I want to tell you a little about a few outlines and a small part of the characters in the fable Animal Farm by George Orwell. After I've done this, I will try to discuss why George Orwell decided to write the story as a fable with talking and thinking animals. In the end of my essay I would try to draw a conclusion. Animal farm, a novel by George Orwell, shows how a government based system gone incredible wrong. George Orwell’s plot gives the reader a familiar feeling of being frightened. We learn through a group of farm animals, who rebel against their farmers, that we are not as free as we assume. Orwell composed many of his characters in the fable animal Farm after Russian leaders. He depicts the troubles of Russia in the book excellent. In the book Animal Farm George Orwell shows us how a person's language or way of expressing themselves can control other persons minds and not least how you can tell the people false information about you just to make you look better, and gain the people’s trust or to use it on the enemy to make them look worse. There is the character Squealer who stretches the truth a bit every time he spokes to the other animals. He fools them into believing that what happens is not as bad as it seems to be. In that easy way he gets them to work for him without even lifting a finger. Why the writer George Orwell chose to write the story as a fable, there may be many explanations. One of the explanations could be that the story...
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...implications - Elsevier linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/002463019500038KSimilar However, 70 of all organizations surveyed did not have a formal IT ..... Fourthly, Pilkington retained inhouse capability to manage the contract. ... PILKINGTON PLC: A Major Multinational Outsources Its Head Office ... www.wiley.com/college/turban2e/icase1.html - CachedSimilar What in-house capability did Pilkington retain? Was this enough? Were there advantages in keeping inhouse greater technical expertise? ... Im information systems www.slideshare.net/.../im-information-systems - United States - Cached What in-house capability did Pilkington retain? Was this enough? Were there advantages in keeping in-house greater technical expertise? ... Animal Farm www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/AniFarm.html - CachedSimilar Pilkington later becomes friendly with Napoleon and the other pigs. ... Napoleon had reared them in secret, training them to do his bidding. .... Napoleon keeps the attack dogs at his side to intimidate...
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...Yara Shqwara OLC 401 Mr. 9, April/2016 Leaders throughout history gained power and leadership in several ways. As we have examined Napoleon from Animal Farm, and Adolf Hitler through the movie The Rise of Evil, we can observe the similarities between them in the way they have expanded their power and leadership. Napoleon and Adolf Hitler first started with small crowds in order to deliver their message of how to make their society a better place. As Napoleon used to speak at the farmhouse and Hitler at the pub, they both had their speeches around small crowds at first and the crowd began to enlarge as they spoke of what the people/animals wanted to hear about how to become a better society. Although both spoke what the people wanted to hear, yet there were some protesters. As Napoleon and Hiler grew to have more supporters, they also gained protection for themselves. In their cases, Napoleon had gained the seven dogs protection and loyalty, and Hitler had gained the army's protection and trust. Napoleon and Hilter had gained protection, yet they could not allow protesters to ruin their image to other people. In order to gain all people's attention and support, they both exiled whoever had protested against them. In Napoleon's case, he exiled Snowball, Boxer, and others in order to make the farming system work better. Yet Hitler had committed mass genocide to create a perfect race. In conclusion, we can see the similarities between Napoleon and Adolf Hitler in...
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...In the study of Gattaca, directed by Andrew Niccol and Animal Farm composed by George Orwell, conformity versus individualism is a key concern for both composers. Although both contextually different, both texts promote a warning for their respective societies that apparent utopian ideals can lead to the corruption and destruction of values such as individuality, caring and compassion, being replaced by deceit and manipulation to gain control and power. Both texts, written at different times historically, share many significant lessons. In the sterile society of Gattaca, life is genetically controlled right from the beginning so that everyone gets the “best possible start”. The sterile setting metaphorically captures a tyrannical and authoritarian atmosphere that prizes genetic perfection above all else. It is a world that blocks human aspiration. This becomes evident through the robotic-type characters that inhabit Gattaca. In the film Vincent says: “Engineered like the rest of us” this puts an emphasis on that everyone is the same and individual characteristics such as personality, beliefs and values are irrelevant. Identity is seen in this world as being entirely defined by your status as a valid or in-valid. Beyond this, nothing else is important. The first scenes in Gattaca set an atmosphere of controlled bodily perfection. Vincent is seen shaving and washing. There are extreme close-ups of body matter: blood, skin, hair, eyelashes, urine and fingernails. The use of such...
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...Discussion of the merits of Animal Farm as book and film respectively Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a story about how animals take over a farm. The farm and the animals are symbols that are used to represent the Russian Revolution. The story of Animal Farm is based on the Russian Revolution. If you make a comparison between the movie Animal Farm and the book Animal Farm there are numerous reasons that made it similar and different. This Animal Farm movie features some significant departures from Orwell's story. It may be the best film adaptation of the novel to date, but it's far from perfect. No film adaptation of a written work is hardly ever perfect, but one could expect this one to be fairly accurate because Animal Farm is a rather short book, after all. For the most part, I feel like this movie does a great job capturing the essence of Orwell’s work, but there are some significant departures that one should be aware of. One thing that I believe can make a book good is the characters. There were many more animals on the farm, in the book. The movie did not show many animals except for the main animals. Even though this is a small difference, I find it very noticeable. In the book, Mollie was a character. When she betrayed the animals by being with a human it gave you a feeling that there were more animals that could be traitors. Rather than the animals talking, as in the book, a narrator generally tells the story in the movie. The animals only have very few sound...
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...In the novella Animal Farm, George Orwell explores the augmentative nature of power and its susceptibility to corruption through his fable allegory of the Russian Revolution. Orwell exposes his audience to the inevitable escalation of power, especially in socialist societies where the motives of individuals are tainted with a lust for power. Through the symbolic character of the pigs, in particular Napoleon who symbolizes Joseph Stalin, power is initially seized through the corruption of food rations amongst the animals. When Squealer, representing propaganda, notifies the animals that ‘milk and apples contain substances necessary to the wellbeing of pigs,’ dramatic irony is used to great effect. By reasoning that ‘it is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples,’ the audience can see, as the animals cannot, that this is the turning point whereby the pig’s leadership gradually befalls to corruption. Power continues to be augmented up until the denouement of the novella where, ‘the creatures looked from pig to man, and from man to pig…but it was already impossible to say which was which.’ Though satirical in nature, this symbolism is demonstrative of the pigs’ ever-increasing demand for power, which inescapably resulted in a more corrupt government than the one it overthrew. Orwell urges his audience to pay cautious attention to, and be critical of; the decisions made by their leaders and ensure they too are not corrupted by an infatuating desire to gain political...
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...Arafeh November 23, 2011 L.A/Block 4 Animal Farm Chapters 1-2 “Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Wight boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals…Old Major (so he was always called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say.”(pg 15) This is an exposition. It explains who old Major is. It explains that old Major is not his actual name. He is the boar. He is also a very important animal in the story because it says he was so highly regarded. The animals respected him like a high person. He was probably the king of the animals. Chapter 2 “And so, before they knew what was happening, the Rebellion had been successfully carried through: Jones was expelled, and the Manor Farm was theirs.”(pg 29) It was so unexpected that it would happen so fast. I thought the Rebellion of the animals against Man would take a very long time such as a year or ten years. It happened so fast that I was shocked. Chapter 1 Question Old Major tries to persuade the animals into a Rebellion against Man. He tells the animals what their life is right then and now, and also tells them what their life will be when they succeed in the Rebellion against Man. He persuades them by describing to all the animals how miserable, and short their lives are...
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