Empathy is a crucial component in the exposition of Stalin’s regime, satire fails to induce this feeling, but realism does. Through Ivan Denisovich, the audience learns to feel empathy and sympathy towards those in the gulag camps. This by far is the most impactful way to showcase the failures and actions of a regime such as Stalin’s. We as the audience see that guards, motivated by fear, beat and assault prisoners, something that is absent in the satirical text of Animal farm. We can also see the horrid conditions the prisoners are kept in, as well as the sparse food that they are given. We see that to survive, humans must surrender all dignity. Consequently, proving that realism is more effective in communicating the lies and deception that was the Soviet Union and its subjugates.
Some people argue that realism is a complex concept that does not generally convey the big picture, one that satire is able to accomplish. They say, Animal farm satirizes the big picture of …show more content…
Of the two, realism is a more effective tool to convey the atrocities of Stalin’s regime. Solzhenitsyn, uses common human needs, to convey a larger image of survival, emphasizing realism. The prisoners, barely receive what we consider basic human rights. Solzhenitsyn also uses the actions of the guards, to invoke empathy in the audience, who watches as prisoners are beaten and insulted. This shows the true seriousness that the gulag camps were. In Animal Farm, such things were satirized and cartooned, thus diverting attention from the direness of the situation. Through real examples and displays of tormented human nature, realism exposes the regime of Stalin more effectively, allowing the viewer to relate to the struggles of the
Some people argue that realism is a complex concept that does not generally convey the big picture, one that satire is able to accomplish. They say, Animal farm satirizes the big picture of …show more content…
Of the two, realism is a more effective tool to convey the atrocities of Stalin’s regime. Solzhenitsyn, uses common human needs, to convey a larger image of survival, emphasizing realism. The prisoners, barely receive what we consider basic human rights. Solzhenitsyn also uses the actions of the guards, to invoke empathy in the audience, who watches as prisoners are beaten and insulted. This shows the true seriousness that the gulag camps were. In Animal Farm, such things were satirized and cartooned, thus diverting attention from the direness of the situation. Through real examples and displays of tormented human nature, realism exposes the regime of Stalin more effectively, allowing the viewer to relate to the struggles of the