George B. McClellan

George Orwell displays an extremely negative view towards communism, totalitarian governments, and the means by which oppressors rise to power in the story Animal Farm. It’s very clear by the writing techniques and statements from the writing that Orwell feels very strongly about the issues and he dislikes how the government was during the Russian Revolution. During the Revolution, communism was being used as the form of government, and Orwell wanted equality for all, so he strongly disagreed…

Zombies The thought of your loved ones coming back from the dead is horrific. Though, people generally see zombies in multiple sources of media such as movies, television shows, and comics every day. The idea of the walking undead corpses was brought on by Haitian folklore from the early 1900’s. The term’s meaning is based off of a fictional undead being created through the animation of a human corpse. Although the idea of “zombies” sounds completely insane and irrational, there are multiple…

Benjamin greatly contributes to the problem of totalitarianism on the farm by being passive and not voicing his opinion on Animalism. Although an intelligent animal, Benjamin chooses not to use his intelligence to challenge the new, corrupt government. Furthermore, he doesn't question their authority and by not doing so, causes the new way of life to remain in place. When asked by the animals what he thinks of the building of the windmill, he refuses to have an opinion on it. The animals are…

is one of the questions people would ask after reading George Orwell’s Animal farm. The book displays class conflicts and showing how some classes are more equal than other ones.This book was an allegory to the Soviet Union and the allies during World War II. People can see the well known leaders and allies in some of the characters. Orwell shows how badly the working class was treated comparing it to times in the Soviet. In Animal Farm George Orwell uses conflict, dialogue, and irony to display…

Eric Arthur Blair, born in 1903, was a famous English critic, journalist, and writer. Better known by his pen name of George Orwell, he received his extensive education from multiple private schools in England, including Eton. His suspicion of the failing class system was rooted in his dreadful experiences with social entitlement and elitism at the private institutions he attended. Since his parents were English colonists in India, his first hand experiences with British imperialism shaped his…

A Doll’s House is a three act play written in 1879, and is considered the first feminist play. Nora, the main character, is labeled by Torvald, her husband, as a naïve housewife, but little does Torvald know that Nora is keeping a secret from him. Years ago, Nora forged her father’s signature to get a loan to save Torvald’s life. Now Torvald works at a bank, and he wants to fire Krogstad, an employee. Krogstad knows about Nora’s forgery, so he blackmails Nora into trying to get Torvald to keep…

the writing comes across and can result in different responses from readers. An author’s choice in how he or she narrates their writing is directly correlated with their objective for the piece. This can be observed through the journalist works of George Orwell and Joseph Mitchell. Orwell utilizes a first person narrative and includes personal anecdotes to try to influence people’s political views. Mitchell, in contrast, personally detaches from his narration,…

How Things Could’ve Been Different In the Dystopian Novel, “1984” by George Orwell, there are multiple assets that changes the lives of many people, in their personality and the ways of how they live. Their way of life is being destroyed due to the iron fist of a godly figure named, “Big Brother”. The methods that are being used, were odd, but at the same time, undignified. In this dystopian “society [,] itself is typically the antagonist; it is society actively working against the…

In room 303 we have studied many texts. Along with those texts came many authors. Though there have been many influential authors in the era we are studying, William Blake was very high on that list. Three of the texts that he wrote are called “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”, “Infant Sorrow”, and “The Chimney Sweeper”. From these four texts, you can get many archetypes that blake had. From the texts Lamb, Tyger, Sweeper, and Infant, the archetypes of innocence and youth, oppression, and struggles of the…

strong but also fragile commodity. In the poem ‘Men of England’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the goal was to send out a message to the English workers saying to rebel against the drones. In the novel ‘Animal Farm’ by Eric Arthur Blair, with the pen name of George Orwell, the intent was to make an allegory of the Russian revolution. As a community, we must ask ourselves a simple but also somewhat complex question to better comprehend the topic at hand. Is cruelty derived from power? Or are the…