Joseph Franklin Rutherford

novel contains characters that are symbolic of the communist leaders and were able to manipulate the other animals by limiting the quality of education which then led to the animals becoming ignorant and closed minded. Napoleon (who was symbolic of Joseph Stalin) the dictator, found out the animals’ weakness and used it against them throughout the novel while only educating specific animals. To begin with,…

Both the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Vladimir Putin use fear and propaganda to stay in power. Animal Farm is an allegory meant to represent the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The book is about animals who take over their farm in order to run it themselves. They eventually fall under the leadership of a pig named Napoleon, who often deceives the animals in order to maintain power. The book highlights the ignorance of the animals who end up just as they were in the beginning…

In the play Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry the effects of colonialism is a theme that is irrevocably present throughout the plot. The play is set in a fictional country in Africa and it depicts in detail the results of European presence. Although the setting and characters were fictional the story line followed and contained various realistic situations and issues that existed and continues to exist in colonized countries. Some major issues that are presented in the play that transcends…

Sea of Poppies is regarded as a narrative in epical form. The epic always contains the mythological stories related to the lives of saints, gods and super humans. Such stories are full of mysticism and miracles. The Ibis becomes the symbol of incarnation for Baboo Nob Kissin while her voyage from Calcutta to Mauritius is regarded as a pilgrimage. Nob Kissin had been influenced by Taramomy in his life from childhood. Nob Kissin family was the devotee of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a saint, mystic…

Dramatic Irony- irony occurs in a fictional work when the audience / reader or a character knows something that another character does not. The pardoner’s prologue exemplifies dramatic irony within the Pardoner’s preaching regarding evil. ( Chaucer 18, 20, 21,) The pardoner addresses within his sermon the root of all evil is avarice, yet he willingly reveals to the reader his true intent within such declaration was a selfish greed.( Chaucer, 46) Due to his occupation, and previous assertions,…

Animal Farm by George Orwell, is a satirical novella analysing the Russian political climate of 1945. With England’s increasing contact with the Soviet Union, during the rise of Joseph Stalin and brewing of the Cold War, Orwell sought to vent his frustrations through his art. Orwell, being a prescient writer (Kennedy 2017), was able to contextualise the events of, and immortalise, the Russian Revolution, whilst alluding to the result of the Communist agenda that took power during his lifetime.…

In Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman and “Metamorphosis” by Kafka, a heavy (and sometimes overwhelming) theme is alienation and dehumanization. While both texts discuss different topics and scenarios, their pivotal theme is what ultimately tie the stories together. Both authors use very different strategies to showcase the alienation and dehumanization based upon their story’s genre. Maus I & II is a very real and intense comic that gives a snapshot of what it was like to be a Jew in World War II…

The novel Things Fall Apart, the author Chinua Achebe illustrates and portrays the idea of the Igbo society in Africa. The setting takes place in an African village of Umuofia, when the main protagonist, Okonkwo is the a well known Igbo man also a tragic hero. He wrestles Amalinze the Cat, and overall defeats him which leads him to be a successful man. He also is married to three wives which shows him that he is a great man in the village. However, he is also portrayed as a tragic hero, by…

Both the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Vladimir Putin use fear and propaganda to stay in power. Animal Farm is an allegory meant to represent the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The book is about animals who overtake their farm to run it themselves. They eventually fall under the leadership of a pig named Napoleon who often deceives the animals in order to maintain power. The book highlights the ignorance of the animals who end up just as they were in the beginning of the…

Comparing Individuality and Conformity in Fahrenheit 451 Individuality is celebrated in modern day society, but during the Cold War, the world seemed as though there was little hope for self-expression to live another day. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a prominent theme of conformity found various times throughout the dystopian society. Conformity was a common theme in the real world during the Cold War, when this novel was written. In this society, books have all been…