Ayn Rand's Use Of Allegory In Anthem And Animal Farm

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Ayn Rand and George Orwell are the authors of the two novels, Anthem and Animal Farm. George Orwell based his novel, Animal Farm, on the Russian Revolution. He used allegory to make the characters come to life. Ayn Rand, the author of Anthem, wrote her novel purely of her own imagination and thoughts of what will become of the future. In the novels Anthem and Animal Farm, the plot takes place around an abusive leadership where they rebel for the freedom of the differences and from the strict government; however, they have different points of views and different resolution. Animal Farm and Anthem have many similarities including an abusive leadership and strict governments. In Animal Farm, the animals gather together to overthrow their owner, …show more content…
Anthem and Animal Farm are told in two different points of views and both have two different resolutions. Anthem is told in the first person; however, Ayn Rand uses the pronouns we and us to describe the way society has been altered into everyone being considered equal. The people in Anthem are not allowed to see themselves as individuals and are forbidden to use personal pronouns like I and me. George Orwell tells the novel Animal Farm in the third person omniscient. In Animal Farm there is no main character, and the novel is told by the all seeing narrator even though the novel mainly revolves around the pigs and how they lead the abusive government over the other animals. Another difference between these two novels would be the different resolution. At the end of Anthem it is seen that Equality and Liberty have given themselves actual names and identities. Equality and Liberty even decide to let the other people of the city know that is okay to be different and not everyone is meant to be the same. In Animal Farm there isn’t much of a resolution. At the end of the Novel it is seen that the pigs had been overruled, and the farm was turned into Animal Farm. The farm’s rules were altered slightly, but the overall government was practically the same as it had been when the pigs were overseeing everything. It is finally decided at the end of the novel that the new rule would be that “all animals are equal,

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