George Santayana's Quote Analysis

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Knowing the past and remembering your experiences is just as significant as being aware of what goes on in the present. George Santayana's quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." represents the story Animal Farm the best. Santayana's quote basically says that if the people (the animals in this case) fail to learn from their experiences, cannot reminisce the past, or cannot point out their faults of that past event, then their mistakes are bound to recur again, which is precisely what was going on, on the Animal Farm. This quote relates to Animal Farm because the story both starts out and ends out quite the same, which was being supervised inefficiently and being mistreated. Being illiterate, uneducated, and

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