...with the other animals, Benjamin’s actions become more peculiar when he “…could read as well as any pig, but never exercised his faculty…he said. There was nothing worth reading” (Orwell 33). Even before the corruption of the farm, Benjamin acknowledges that the only way to stay alive to prevent the pigs from thinking that Benjamin’s high intellectuality only gets in their way. Alternatively, although Benjamin declares that nothing is worth reading, he indirectly references that nothing is worth enough to risk his own life. Menshevik intelligentsia’s experienced mind and astute comprehension restrained themselves being in the unjust leaders and political figures of Russia, namely Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov, the head of Communist propaganda, by not assembling their wisdom and intellectuality to other. After it is arranged to send afflicted Boxer to a veterinary surgeon in Willingdon and a cart comes to pick Boxer up, Benjamin recognizes some peculiar facts about the cart, quoting, “Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?...They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!” (Orwell 122). Contrasting from other animals, Benjamin’s knowledge develops into cynical character, accommodating him to acknowledge the...
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...which hunt was to eliminate all of his opposition, Stalin executed or exiled anyone who he did not agree with for example: any of Trotsky's supporters, as well as many landowners, and military leaders who were still present after the revolution. Many Historians estimate that the number of victims of this so called witch hunt range from 500,000 up to almost 2 million. Orwell uses the brutal murder of the pigs and other animals to represent that no one is truly safe from the terror and dictatorship of Napoleon. By both psychological and physical torture Stalin’s regimes forced many people to publically confess to crimes that they never committed, much like Napoleon in animal farm. Later on this event became known as the "Moscow Show Trials." In Animal Farm we can see how Orwell expresses his own version of “Moscow Show Trials”. We see, in the later half of the book how Squealer lies to all the other animals saying that Snowball isn't just scheming to hurt the farm from the outside, but that lately he has slithering and quailing back into the farm at night to plot his revenge who’s goal it is, to destroy the foundation and prosperity of Animal farm from within. In Conclusion We can see that Orwell uses allegory’s and a reflection of the Russian revolution to express how different social groups are marginalized, excluded, or...
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...journalists do a competent job of reporting on the prospect’s record. In the case of Governor George W. Bush, Texas reporters had written numerous stories about his failed businesses in the oil patch, the dubious land grab and questionable funding behind a new stadium for Bush’s baseball team, the Texas Rangers, and his various political contradictions and hypocrisies while serving in Austin. I was one of those Texas journalists. I spent about a decade trying to find accurate information on Bush’s record in the Texas National Guard. My curiosity had been prompted by his failure to adequately answer a question I had asked him as a panelist in a televised debate with Ann Richards during the 1994 gubernatorial campaign. Eventually I published three books on Bush and his political consigliere, Karl Rove. During Bush’s presidency, many other...
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