George Fox

Power is not evil, it is the user that makes it evil. Machiavelli, a controversial figure in political history left a legacy of brutal reality which disturbed many people. Niccolo Machiavelli’s, The Prince explores the groundbreaking ideas for a prince to secure the leading position in government and retain his power and leadership. Human nature combined with power has the possibility of becoming tragically destructive. However, that wreckage stems from the environment, and the actions…

This essay will be an analysis piece on Animal Farm (1945) written by George Orwell (1903 - 1950) through the application of Michael Foucault’s (1926 - 1984) theory of politics of truth (1997) and the idea of Panopticon (1975). By viewing through Foucault’s theories, it will help decipher the intertextuality and the multiple layers of meaning within Orwell’s piece. Animal Farm tells a story of a group of farm animals rebelling against the human beings under the leadership of two pigs, Napoleon…

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil (Thomas Malthus). Everybody faces some sort of temptation in their life, whether it be something as minor as the temptation to eat a chocolate bar, or more major like the temptation to cheat. Temptations always have a consequence, much like a domino effect. It can be seen everywhere, there is plenty of temptation in literary works today, and it means the downfall for many characters in the classic literary tales. While there may be many…

Leaders all around the world share something in common, and that one thing is the ability to speak. In George Orwell's Animal Farm and history, totalitarian leaders gain their power through the convincing support of the people. Animal Farm is a novel about the different social classes relating to the Russian Revolution. Napoleon the pig is a great representation of a leader because of his many constant changes through his use of rhetoric in propaganda such as speeches, slogans, Scapegoats, and…

The book “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell is an allegorical novella reflecting upon the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and the revolution itself. I would even go so far as to state “Animal Farm” is a moral satire that is directly linked to the events that took place during the Russian Revolution and the prominent figures involved in it. The main characters such as Old Major, Snowball and Napoleon bear a resemblance to Russian figures such as Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Joseph…

“...The demons of fear and disorder seemed to take full possession of all and everything upon that day,” once said by Private Joseph Plumb Martin, a fifteen year old soldier who was suffering the battle between fear and bravery during the Revolutionary War. In the beginning of Chains, Isabel experienced the first major, detrimental event within her lifetime. Her innocence was brutally stripped away from her when she was sold to the vicious Locktons in New York. This very moment defined Isabel’s…

As the gifts declined, so did the Confederacy’s power. Without the rivalry between the French and British, the Haudenosaunee lost their vital place as intermediaries between the two superpowers, forcing them to adopt a new strategy to survive. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix signified a shift in Haudenosaunee strategy from mediating between rivals to fraudulently selling land belonging to other Indians. By 1768, the British were attempting to complete their proclamation line issued in 1763,…

Jacobins club which was represented by the Republicans. He would call himself the incorruptible. He thought that he could not be corrupted by anything. However, as we saw in the movie, he became corrupted by the power which he held. The other one, Georges Jacques D’Anton, was the man of the people. D’Anton was a powerful figure because was educated. He was a lawyer with a great set of skills to get his point across. His big voice and ability to speak to the public made him able to express the…

A dictator is a political person that inherits all the powers of office. They have supreme reign over a country, and usually take no one's advice other than themselves. They have full power over what goes on air and what people can say. In this essay I will be talking about two dictators, Fidel Castro and Nicolas Maduro. Both of them have caused irreparable harm to their country and have damaged ties of friendship to other countries, some being passed the ability to repair. Fidel Castro turned…

Dilip Chitre creates a stark impression of the isolation of old age in his poem ‘Father Returning Home’ by showing his fathers’ estrangement from society and his own family. Chitre conveys this isolation by using literary devices such as similes and repetition, and addressing themes such as modernity vs tradition. The poem begins when a father is waiting outside for a train which will take him home. We know this as it says ‘My father travels on the late evening train’. Already by labelling the…