Matthew Fidurko Ms. McCalley English 9 Honors 11 April 2017
The Power Through Fear in Both Orwell’s Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution Intro paragraph: Fear is easily controlled by those who are powerful, and that is why people shouldn’t let their fears become boundaries. George Orwell wrote his book Animal Farm to shed light on how in the Russian Revolution and many other civilizations with rulers who hold great power often try to instil fear in their people. Orwell wanted his readers to become political thinkers and also people that wouldn’t let their views for society be trumped by somebody through their fear. Russia was able to get away with how they were treating their people by assuring people through pravda that everything they …show more content…
Napoleon didn’t always make it easy for Squealer to seal over his mistakes. “The execution of the traitors this afternoon was the final act.”(Orwell 88). At this point in Orwell’s Animal Farm Napoleon made by far one of the boldest moves in his time of ruling, in which he calls for a meeting where he claims that many comrades have committed treason. Napoleon then follows up his accusation by using his terrifying attack dogs to scare fake confessions out of the accused, and then he proceeds to order his attack dogs ruthlessly murder the accused.
Joseph Stalin the parallel to Napoleon in George Orwell’s Animal Farm used fear tactics in order to cement his power for as long as possible.
Czar Nicholas the 2nd the equivalent of the hated Farmer Jones the owner of Manor farm and later Animal farm in George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm was used as a threat that the past rulers were not as bad as the one who came before them.
George Orwell used his novel Animal Farm to shed light on the fact that we cannot allow our fear to become a controlling factor in our decision making and
The Power Through Fear in Both Orwell’s Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution Intro paragraph: Fear is easily controlled by those who are powerful, and that is why people shouldn’t let their fears become boundaries. George Orwell wrote his book Animal Farm to shed light on how in the Russian Revolution and many other civilizations with rulers who hold great power often try to instil fear in their people. Orwell wanted his readers to become political thinkers and also people that wouldn’t let their views for society be trumped by somebody through their fear. Russia was able to get away with how they were treating their people by assuring people through pravda that everything they …show more content…
Napoleon didn’t always make it easy for Squealer to seal over his mistakes. “The execution of the traitors this afternoon was the final act.”(Orwell 88). At this point in Orwell’s Animal Farm Napoleon made by far one of the boldest moves in his time of ruling, in which he calls for a meeting where he claims that many comrades have committed treason. Napoleon then follows up his accusation by using his terrifying attack dogs to scare fake confessions out of the accused, and then he proceeds to order his attack dogs ruthlessly murder the accused.
Joseph Stalin the parallel to Napoleon in George Orwell’s Animal Farm used fear tactics in order to cement his power for as long as possible.
Czar Nicholas the 2nd the equivalent of the hated Farmer Jones the owner of Manor farm and later Animal farm in George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm was used as a threat that the past rulers were not as bad as the one who came before them.
George Orwell used his novel Animal Farm to shed light on the fact that we cannot allow our fear to become a controlling factor in our decision making and