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    1. Leadership in Animal farm is presented as a dictatorship which is proven to be cyclic. For instance “there was only one candidate, Napoleon who was elected unanimously” and “he carried a whip”. This implies that leadership is recognized to be cyclical as the animals are back where they started with dictators with ‘whips in their hands’. Yet, the only dissimilarity is that they have a different ruler. Also, the destructive concrete noun ‘whip;’ infers domination which is at the start and at…

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    George Orwell’s Animal Farm, animals fall into the hateful cycles of humans they once despised and form an unbalanced and corrupt hierarchy. With the use of passive voice, questioning, and personable word choices, Animal Farm forms subtle themes of manipulative control and the power of perception of circumstances. The dominating pigs in Animal Farm use the syntax and diction choices of passive voice, rhetorical questioning, and manipulative words to control the lower animals. As the…

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    Europe and Northern Asia. The reason behind why he wrote this novel is to inform people the dangers and logical outcome of Communism during World War II. The book is a “fairy story” which uses different animals in a farmyard to portray the history of Soviet communism. According to Orwell, the animals that are used in the story play a role based directly on Communist Leaders. Like Mr. Jones who depicts the figure of the failing farmer, signifies Czar Nicholas II. Old Major, portrays Vladimir…

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    Animal Farm, a short fable written by George Orwell, is an allegory of the Russian Revolution, and could symbolize any kind of revolt in general. He did an amazing job setting up the characters and I loved how each of the animals had their own representation of a group of people in real life. Systems of government were also represented in animal farm, as well as in the game of musical chairs that we played beforehand. The story begins with a drunken and negligent owner, Jones, and a beautiful…

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    Animal Farm is an allegory as it has parallels to the Soviet Union and the possibility of totalitarianism. The phrase in the book "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others" is a good satire on the facade of equality that communism in Russia at the time had. The pigs were the communist idealist, some of them being representatative of ones present in Soviet Russia, and they had a plan to overthrow the farmer, Mr. Jones, who is like the old tzars of Russia. The farm goes from a…

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    Christian Ruiz Honors English 10 Mrs. Robichaux 17 October 2016 Study Guide for Siddhartha and Animal Farm The Brahmin's Son Siddhartha is unhappy because he does not have peace in his heart and he does not have the knowledge he wishes and he is restless. His spirit is like a waiting vessel because his spirit is partly full of information from his teachers but he is still not satisfied. Because Govinda loves Siddhartha as a friend and admires his thirst for knowledge. The Samanas are described…

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    In the novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, one of the most important characters is a pig named Squealer. Squealer is a negative manipulator, a coward, and a follower. In the novel, Squealer expresses his manipulative ways in the quotation “ I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself . . . no one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal . . . surely, comrades, you do…

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    Animal farm is a book written by George Orwell about animals taking over their farm and getting control over the other animals. There are many themes in this book such as control, terror, lies, equality and many more. The pigs represent a corrupt government that lies to their people but disguise their badness. Orwell's argument would be not to trust the government. Two of animal farm's main themes would be control and terror. When napoleon trains the dogs to become guards, it is so the animals…

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    Animal Farm written by George Orwell was published in 1945. Orwell had based the novel on the Russian Revolution but had satirised it as a fable, making it so the major individuals in the Revolution were animals. Old Major that is in charge of the farm is represented as Karl Marx and Lenin, Napoleon is Stalin and Snowball is Trotsky. This novel presents how George Orwell views the Revolution and his point of view. The major character that is mostly shown throughout the novel is Napoleon.…

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    the novel, Animal Farm, is a dystopian allegory story that was written by George Orwell that satires on the corrupting influence power. Animal Farm is about the effect of the power using animals as an example. By reading Animal Farm, readers can find that power plays an important role in Animal Farm and the effect of power is massive. In the story, power is used for selfish purposes. First of all, power leads to avarice as seen by Mr. Jones who, as the owner of the farm, abuses the animals for…

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